Domagoj Pernar

Hyper-V, Microsoft’s virtualization technology, now supports CentOS Linux distribution. CentOS is actually community-supported, mainly free software operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution. CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System Which versions are supported? Hyper-V now supports following CentOS versions: CentOS 5.2 (x86,x64) CentOS 5.3 (x86,x64) CentOS 5.4 (x86,x64) CentOS 5.5 (x86,x64) CentOS 5.6 (x86,x64) It is also good to know that Microsoft already supports Hyper-V environments that include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux Enterprise Server. What does the support actually mean? Does it mean that I can’t run other Linux distributions on Hyper-V? CentOS supported under Hyper-V N... (more)

Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 RC1 VHD download

  New VHD available from Microsoft – Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Rc1. This VHD is really useful to get you going with FIM, because clean FIM installation and configuration can take pretty much time. You need to install all FIM components (and believe me, there are a lot of components), configure provisioning etc, etc.   Anyway, now with FIM 2010 VHD available for download, you can try all features: Provisioning of users and groups to AD Creating new dynamical groups Self service password reset Integration with office And much more… If you are interested in identity managemen... (more)

Application Virtualization SDK for Developers

If you are developer and would like to try out library that provides a set of functions for emulating a file system and a system registry for an application, ckeck out BoxedApp SDK. It is a great way for creating virtual files, fake registry entries, keys and value. With BoxedApp SDK you have following features: Create virtual files Create virtual registry keys API for intercepting functions Embed DLL Embed ActiveX / OCX Launching a virtual file-based process Using virtual file system by several processes simultaneously If you are wondering when to use this SDK see some examples ... (more)

Great New Bing Feature – Visual Search

Bing.com just released new great, fun and useful feature called Visual Search. Visual Search is new type of search organized by categories and then when clicked on category, sorted by criteria. For example; open Bing.com/VisualSearch (before clicking on that link make sure your country/region is set to United States), click on Digital Cameras, and then on left menu click on criteria Highest Megapixel. You will see how Bing quickly shows all types of digital cameras and then sort them by highest megapixel. Also, going with mouse pointer over image, information about the digital ... (more)

Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster error / warning: SCSI 3 persistent reservation failed / CSV redirected access

Topic of this blog post is actually based around two possible errors/ warnings regarding Hyper-V cluster and Cluster Shared Volumes: Cluster Validation Wizard:  Validate SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation    – Failed” Unable to turn off Redirected Access on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) Anyway both problems are influenced by one tiny configuration step in your storage vendor and can be solved with following steps (if your storage supports that): Log in to your storage vendor management console. Go to configuration of hosts connected to storage. There you will see one drop down menu wh... (more)