Xenserver VM won’t reboot

Quick post! I had some trouble earlier today with a Xenserver VM that just wouldn’t boot via the Xencenter console. When I ran xe task-list and it showed that the reboot was pending. So I tried to cancel the task via the task-cancel [uuid=Task UUID] No such luck their either, so I tried a xe vm-shutdown vm= or xe …

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Lync Server 2010 Setup or Remove Lync Components fails on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

If you get this error during installation of Lync 2010 on a 2008 R2 SP1 server, Name of prerequisite: Wmf2008R2   MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM Name of prerequisite: Wmf2008R2   MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM Type of prerequisite: exe   MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM Method used to check prerequisite state: WmfNeeded2008R2()   MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM Result of state check: True   MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM …

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Cortado Workplace

This is the first time I’ve ever tried a product from Cortado, so this is new for me as well. Cortado Workplace is cloud-storage solution like Dropbox, SkyDrive & Google Drive etc. You can register for a free account on http://www.cortado.com/euen/EN/Products/CortadoWorkplace/PCMac.aspx and get 2GB free storage. For PC and Mac you can use the HTML5 …

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Office 2013 Web App Server + SharePoint 2013 Integration

Office 2013 Web App Server + SharePoint 2013 IntegrationWith the release of the Office 2013 Preview, Microsoft also launched a beta of Office Web App Server. This product which is also known from Office 365 and SharePoint 2010, allows you to host the apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.) in your own infrastructure to work …

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Windows Server 2012 Essentials (formerly known as Small Business Server)

Windows Server 2012 Essentials is now available in public beta!Essentials ( or formerly known as SBS) was made available for download the previous week. For those that aren’t so familiar with SBS it is a product that is aimed for SMB marked, with up to 25 users. It doesn’t come with all the features that …

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Office 365 preview

For a couple of days ago, Microsoft released a new preview of the office 365 family,http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/try-more-products This release includes the new versions (2013 release) of SharePoint, Exchange & Lync (Which all of these was released for a few days ago as well) as well as Office 2013 Preview.Office 2013 release includes new versions of (Word, …

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Windows Azure in your own datacenter

Wow, a lot is happening around Microsoft these days. And just recently Microsoft released the Service Management Portal and API for Windows Azure free for download for hosting providers. http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/en/us/services.aspx Quick start guide –> http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9813519 Detailed step-by-step –> http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9813518 I have taken a quick walkthrough of the web part. Requirements: Hyper-V Host server for Service …

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Citrix Receiver on Linux (Ubuntu)

Quick post of how-to get Citrix Receiver up and running on a Ubuntu 11.04 the installation is the same for 12.04.First of go to Citrix Receiver download site and choose Linux on the “For desktops”http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=2323812&productId=1689163 From here you choose the .deb file. (This is part of the debian software package format ) Choose to open …

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