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• Chrome Remote Desktop BETA

  So I am usually a afraid to move away from IE based on all the apps that run on it. However there are some others that are making head way...

  Chrome is one that I haven't look at in a while but after seeing this, I thought may I should.. Testing results coming!

  Insert from a web page:

  The Chrome remote desktop extension lets a person remotely control another computer over the network, in this case using Chrome on a Mac to control a Windows machine also running Chrome.
  

  
  (Credit: Google) Months of work on "chromoting" have reached fruition with Google's release on Friday of a new Chrome extension to let a person on one computer remotely control another across the network.
  
  The Chrome Remote Desktop beta version
  
  "Chrome Remote Desktop BETA is the first installment on a capability allowing users to remotely access another computer through the Chrome browser or a Chromebook," the release notes said. "Chrome Remote Desktop BETA is fully cross-platform, so you can connect any two computers that have a Chrome browser, including Windows, Linux, Mac, and Chromebooks."
  
   which arrived Friday, is a browser-based equivalent of remote desktop software for conventional operating systems. Such software is handy for IT administrators managing employees' machines, people taking care of their relatives' computers, or individuals getting access to their own machines from afar.

  Using the Chrome remote desktop extension requires that the person sharing access to a computer give an access code to the person who will tap in to it remotely.
  
  (Credit: Google) It's that latter category that likely was a very important factor in the development of the technology. Google's Chrome OS is geared in part toward organizations that want to lower their computer administration costs, and remote management is an important factor when it comes to that goal.
  
  The technology right now is limited so that permission must be granted each time remote administration is activated. "This version enables users to share with or get access to another computer by providing a one-time authentication code. Access is given only to the specific person the user identifies for one time only, and the sharing session is fully secured," the release notes said.

• MS Joins Support Tools

  So it looks like more and more people are getting into the remote support arena... including MS. I just found this out after looking at the new Chrome tool....  Sweet!

  http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsintune/hh307859.aspx

  Windows Intune™ helps you manage and secure computers in your environment through a combination of Windows cloud services and upgrade licensing. Windows Intune delivers cloud-based management and security capabilities through a single web-based administrator console. With Windows Intune, you can manage computers from almost anywhere.

  •  System Overview View status to assess the overall health of managed computers, check alerts to investigate key issues that need attention, run reports, and create computer groups.
  •  Computers Create and manage computer groups, view status summaries and details, search for computers, and view the list of computers.
  •  Updates Administer the software update process for managed computers.
  •  Endpoint Protection Help protect managed computers against potential threats with real-time protection, and automatic scans and updates of malware definitions. Quickly identify and resolve malware issues.
  •  Alerts View alerts to determine the overall health of managed computers, or to investigate issues that are occurring. Respond to alerts that are generated when users request remote assistance.

  •  Software View a list of programs that are detected on managed computers. Upload and deploy managed software to managed computers.
  •  Licenses Upload and track license agreement information for Microsoft software and non-Microsoft software installed on managed computers.
  •  Policy Configure policies to manage settings for Updates, Endpoint Protection, Windows Firewall, and Windows Intune Center on managed computers.
  • Reports Generate reports about software updates, installed software, and hardware on managed computers.
  •  Administration Download the most current client software, manage administrator accounts, configure update classifications and automatic approval rules, and alert notification rules. Manage Cloud Storage space.

• The Future of IT

  For some I agree that it is going to be harder to justify VMware costs in the future (but it really does help to drive costs down). I believe there is a major importance of Windows 8 and Linux in the future. However I do believe from the infrastructure arena that the virtualization layer will be a major component to get companies to the Cloud. The future of technology is Clouds (hybrid/private/public) which is compute, networking, and storage as shared services which is the cornerstone of virtualization.
  
  

  VMware’s virtualization is the Key to all of the technology advances of the last 10 years.  VMware is closely tied to all of the cores, Server, IP network and Storage. I currently do think that the vApps and security components need a lot of work. To have full integration of virtual apps (virtual/cloud aware apps) well less just say we are a long ways from that.
   
  VMware is the “cornerstone” of the architecture tying all other needed components together (Server Core, IP Core, Storage Core and IO Engines (IE - Microsoft, Linux, AIX, etc). It is the product that spans all datacenters within a true enterprise.
   
  VMware is the component that makes Microsoft useful and effective for IO engines and end users.  As well as geographically dispersed datacenters with Geo and Intra Datacenter load balancing and spanned IP networks with Active - Active workload between datacenters (IE: OTV or VXLAN (not ready yet)). Virtualization will help get us out of the ‘4 walls” of the datacenter as we need to eliminate the limits\constraints of a single physical network. We need for datacenters to be more agile.
   
  Microsoft\Windows is now only a small component of the datacenter IO engine layer. The need for Microsoft/Windows Clustering is small to none now that Hardware HA (VMware, IBM, HP, and Cisco) is so fast. PLUS: Now that we have Virtual Load Balancers within the industry that maintain 100% uptime within a single datacenter and across geographically dispersed datacenters “clustering” is just an abstracted term used to indicate a SERVICE.
   
  I have always had the skills and mind set of - Future Vision/Technical/Business Oriented = Provide technical knowledge to add value to the business as you lead them to more/bigger business (faster). I will continue to grow my Cloud knowledge and help others with this new technology.
  My belief is the OS (whichever that may be) is the IO engine for business applications. So the OS will be closer to the business as opposed to an infrastructure layer. The business applications live within the OS at this time and the foreseeable future. I also believe the business’ belief in relation to infrastructure components is “it should just run”.

  These are only my opinions and do not reflect anyone or any company's opinion or view - Ronald Barefield

• Server 2012

  For starters, Microsoft has introduced Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX). When using storage arrays, ODX offloads tasks that would usually be handled locally on the server or over the network and uses the power of the storage array to perform these tasks.

  http://vwin.typepad.com/blog/2012/09/windows-server-2012-the-storage-os.html 

• Hyper3 vs. VMware

  MS's new version seems to include WAN vMotion... wow without OTV (Overlay Transport Virtualization) or at least that what I’m reading. It will be very impressive to have WAN vMotion for many reasons including DR/BC>...  Great article here on CIO:

  http://www.cio.com/article/690019/Microsoft_Cracks_Live_Migration_Problem?taxonomyId=3112

  The MS version of HyperV3 will give us the right things we "need" not wants. VMware gives us something’s for free or at least until you move to Vsphere5 and get hit with the vTax. They did make some changes to licenses but not enough to stop people from looking at other products that get the job done! HyperV-3 vs vSphere 5 - http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/hyper-v-virtualization-windows-server-8-vsphere,1-16.html

  I truly think that over time we will see the virtual scene change to more of a tiered approach. VMware is the lead today but what the future brings is going to have to wait and see! I think based on cost and seeing some try to put virtualization directly in at the chip level, its going to get fun for us engineers and admins.

  Ivan Pepelnjak has a great article on VXLAN-LISP-OTV ----http://blog.ioshints.info/2011/09/vxlan-otv-and-lisp.html

  Great reading from Thomas Mauer - Hyper-V & UCS combo: http://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2011/05/how-microsoft-hyper-v-and-the-cisco-ucs-changed-our-lives/

• Remove - Fake AntiVirus Malware 2009 2010 2011 2012

  Steps to Remove:

  1. Start the computer and just as it leave BIOS Screen strike the F8 key
  2. When the black/white screen comes up choose to load command prompt
  3. Then do a cd \windows\system32\restore
  4. Then do a dir and you should see rstrui.exe
  5. You can copy rstrui.exe to rstrui.com or just run rstrui.exe
  6. Restore system will come up
  7. I have tried this with success on 2 clients system and it worked
  8. After rebooting I ran Malware bytes and it found it

  IF the above doesn't work for you then try this:

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890830