The Project Server 2010 Business Intelligence feature utilizes the support of Excel Services, Secure Store Service, PerformancePoint Services and SQL Server.  A thorough understanding of how these features fit together is necessary to get the most from the feature.  This post will provide that overview and provide troubleshooting questions for common issues. Architecture Our Business Intelligence features leverage Excel Services as the base functionality since most people use Excel to visualize

If you've deployed your ISA Server, Microsoft IAG, Forefront TMG or Forefront UAG on Hyper-V R2 and noticed that a connection between the guest and the virtual switch starts "acting odd", perfoms poorly or becomes disconnected entirely, you may want to apply this update: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974909 Thanx to the Hyper-V team for this update! Jim Harrison, Program manager, FF Edge CS

In this post I will cover the expected traffic flow of a request to IAG that requires ADFS Authentication. Understanding the flow of a normal request is key to understanding where to focus troubleshooting efforts when things don’t go according to plan. Finally I will mention the different logging options that can assist with troubleshooting any problems you may encounter. Traffic flow of a successful ADFS authentication In my lab environment I have the following hostnames: sp2portal.contosopb.com

I noticed this weekend that the directions for the SCVMM MPS Reports utility are incomplete. The only instructions that come with the utility are the ones on the download site that tell you how to download and run the tool: INSTALLING THE MPS REPORTING TOOL ================================= >>>To install the MPS Reporting Tool 1. Download the file MPSRPT_SCVMM.exe. 2. Copy the file to the computer on which you want to diagnose problems. 3. Open an elevated Command Prompt window with administrative

1. Introduction This post is about an issue that was causing VPN Clients not being able to establish a VPN connection with ISA Server 2006. 2. Symptoms When testing the VPN Client access in this particular scenario we could see on ISA Server Logging that the system rule that allows VPN Client access was identified but it shows an error saying: Failed Connection Attempt: Using the command netstat -nao we verified that there was no process listening on port 1723, which is not correct since svchost.exe

Hola a todos, En alguna ocasiones necesitamos actualizar un equipo y esta tarea se nos complica al tener que buscar los parches que existen publicados para una tecnología concreta. Tenemos Windows Update, pero puede ser complicado diferenciar que parches aplican a una tecnología u otra y no permite ver los fixes publicados, ante esta situación localicé, para uno de nuestros casos, una web de Technet que contiene las ultimas actualizaciones que hemos publicado respecto a Hyper-V. En ella viene detallado

Hola a todos. Como bien sabéis en Julio del 2010 se termina el soporte extendido para Windows 2000, por lo que seria conveniente migrar las plataformas que aun tengan este sistema a otro con soporte, pero, existe algún sitio donde se nos pueda guiar-ayudar en este proceso. Pues sí, se ha creado una web donde se trata este tema ampliamente y se da acceso a recursos que ayudan durante el proceso, guías, etc, estructuradas en temas según se trate de plataforma servidora, cliente, redes o compatibilidad

En Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, cuando eliminas un disco duro virtual (VHD) de una máquina virtual espera que el fichero .vhd únicamente se desasigne de la maquina virtual. Si embargo el fichero vhd es eliminado del servidor de Hyper-V. Hemos publicado un Fix que soluciona este comportamiento.  Puedes leer los detalles y acceder al Fix para instalarlo en: KB976246 - When you remove a virtual hard disk from a virtual machine in System Center Virtual Machine Manager

There is an interesting IT Pro content development over  in KBs. When I go to a KB that does not apply to my current OS, I get this: This is frequent scenario for IT Pros because security best practice is to NOT browse the web from your server. So, if there is a problem on a server, many IT Pros research what to do about it from their client machine. This also helps consumers find the right content even though a search engine may have returned a KB with some vague matching keywords. Wouldn’t

Customers often ask “Given a hardware load-out X, how many Ys can I get/run/host?” The frustrating answer always starts with “…it depends…”. We caveat this way not because we want to frustrate, but because it is true. Many teams will go on to say “We have tested the following in our labs and gotten the displayed results…” 1 X = thingy 2 X = more thingies 3X = many more thingies While accurate, not super-helpful. The truth is that to do good perf planning for Hyper-V you have to run some tests. Run

На днях вышло накопительное обновление (Rollup Update) для роли Hyper-V в Windows Server 2008 R2. Это обновление решает проблемы, возникающие в некоторых сценариях резервного копирования и восстановления виртуальных машин. Обновляются компоненты Hyper-V VSS Writer на родительском сервере, а также службы интеграции (Hyper-V Integration Services) для обновления VSS Writer в гостевых ОС. После применения обновления потребуется перезагрузка узла. В кластерном сценарии рекомендуется перевести узел в режим

Recently we have seen an issue where a few customers have been experiencing errors and long delays in adding a single-node (i.e. a 1 node cluster) cluster under management in Virtual Machine Manager. The error that is displayed in the console is Warning (13926) that all of the nodes could not be contacted. This issue stems from the fact that VMM has an overcommitted property for each cluster. By default, a single-node cluster will always be overcommitted since any failure in that single node will

A few folks have been experiencing errors and long delays in adding a single-node (i.e. a 1 node cluster) cluster under management in Virtual Machine Manager. This issue stems from the fact that VMM has an overcommitted property for each cluster. By default, a single-node cluster will always be overcommitted since any failure in that single node will cause the entire cluster and its Virtual Machines to go down. Such a failure does not go well with the concept of high availability. A workaround for

Gastbeitrag von Georg Binder , selbständiger IT-Dienstleister und Autor von windowsblog.at . Weil Martina unlängst neben mir sitzend gerade das Problem hatte: Es gibt das Problem, dass eine mit BitLocker geschützte Maschine mit schwarzem Bildschirm beim Shutdown hängen bleibt. Es gibt auch einen Hotfix, der das löst: A computer stops responding during shutdown if BitLocker is enabled on the system drive on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Download: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=975496

Hola a todos, Recientemente nos hemos encontrado con un caso curioso, en el que hemos estado trabajando unas cuantas semanas, que implica tanto a la parte de Core como de Directorio Activo y queríamos comentároslo. Esperamos que os sea de utilidad :). Cuando un usuario se conecta a un servidor de Terminal Server, el servidor de licencias registra el siguiente evento: Event ID 4105 Source Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing Type Warning Description The Terminal Services license server cannot

Hola a tod@s! Ya tenemos disponible el Update Rollup 1 para Service Pack 2. A través de Windows Update estará disponible mañana día 24 de Noviembre. Como todos sabéis los Update Rollup son dependientes del service pack aplicado por lo que para poder instalar este nuevo rollup necesitaremos tener aplicado el Service Pack 2 previamente. Más información sobre el modelo de actualizaciones de Exchange 2007: Exchange 2007 Servicing http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd421853.aspx Los grandes cambios

Integrating IAG with Active Directory Federation Services seems to be getting more popular and is something I see quite a number of support calls on. If you configure everything exactly as per the guidance below then ADFS/IAG integration will work perfectly. But if you miss a step, misconfigure something, or insert a typo then you will see failures and these can often be tricky to troubleshoot. I’ve seen a fair number of different problems with ADFS and IAG working together, so there will definitely

1. Introduction Consider a scenario where ISA Server 2006 is configured to publish a simple web site using HTTPS and within this site there is a link to download a Microsoft Word file. When external users try to download the file they receive the initial window with open or save file options as shown below: After clicking Save the following error message appears: The web server was listening on HTTP and an internal user connecting to the web server directly over HTTP was able to download this file.

Hola a tod@s ! Hoy vamos a ver una pequeña peculiaridad de las búsquedas en las listas de direcciones desde el cliente Outlook. Seguro que muchos de vosotros os han preguntado por cómo cambiar el orden de los campos, o mostrar otras columnas del cuadro de diálogo que Outlook utiliza para buscar personas denro de la Lista Global de Direcciones. Hay indicar que desafortunadamente... no está soportado su modificación. Se trata del diseño de Outlook y no se puede cambiar, está “hard coded”, las columnas

The DirectAccess Learning Roadmap provides links to resources that allow you to build your understanding of DirectAccess, from prerequisites to introductory, intermediate, and advanced information. The DirectAccess Troubleshooting Guide has been updated with new content that describe troubleshooting steps for specific DirectAccess problems. Joe Davies Principal Technical Writer The Windows Server Networking Documentation Team