In this tutorial i will show you how to enable mass storage mode on windows phone 7 device which are by default locked. It’s good to see this hack that allows you to access the Zune filesystem of your Windows Phone 7 device. Originally, all syncing had to be done with the Zune desktop, but now you will be able to copy your music and photos by hand.

While it doesn’t give you full file system access, it will let you use your Windows Phone 7 as a USB storage device, assuming each computer has this hack set up.If you dont have installed Zune software, you can find here.

Assuming you know how to use a registry editor on your computer, open up the good ‘ole regedit.exe follow these instructions-

1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\Then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Enum\\USB (not the other ControlSet01 or 02 if you have them) and then search for ZuneDriver
2. Select the device ID you want from the key. For most people, there will only be one anyway
3. Change ShowInShell from 0 to 1
4. Change PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell from 1 to 0
5. Change EnableLegacySupport from 0 to 1

Connect your Windows Phone 7 to your computer, and close out the Zune desktop. You should now see your Windows Phone 7 device in Windows Explorer.

While it won’t let you sideload any applications, it will enable you to copy files manually,which is preferred by some people. It will also turn your device into one of the more expensive flash drives, but we’ll let you decide what you want to do with it. Also, keep in mind that videos and picture thumbnails will still be resized when you load them onto your device.

The tool can convert VM’s and VMware Virtual Disks (VMDKs) from vSphere 4.1 and 5.0 to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1, uninstalling the VMware tools and installing the Hyper-V integration services while converting. It also supports offline conversion from VMDK to the Microsoft VHD format. MVMC also includes a Command Line Interface (CLI) to do the conversions.

The following guest Operating Systems are supported :

- Windows Server 2003 SP2

- Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

- Windows Server 2008 R2

- Windows 7

Download link you can found here.

The new Windows Server 8 Beta Hyper-V Component Architecture poster is now available from the Microsoft Download Center.

Provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server “8” Beta and focuses on Hyper-V Replica, networking, virtual machine mobility (live migration), storage, failover clustering, and scalability.

You can download it here.

When trying to open a diagram in SQL Server 2005 db I got the following error:

Even when the database does have a valid owner, then the database compatibility level

is probably set to lower than 90, this can happen if you restore a database created in an

earlier version of SQL Server. To fix it run :

go
ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::yourDB TO "yourLogin"

Microsoft has just released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Exchange 2010. You can download the from Microsft Download Center.

New features in SP2 :
- Hybrid Configuration Wizard
- Address Book Policies
- Outlook Mobile Access (OMA)

You’ll need to roll out an Active Directory schema update as well!

Detailed information is available here.

After cloning a VMWARE  VM to another newly-cloned machine. I had an issue with eth0  not coming up on an CentOS 6.0. I use VMWARE Esxi 4.1 with VCenter.

Problem is because after cloning, VMWARE generate new network card with new MAC address, and when boot this VM CentOS enumerate this card as eth1.

Quickest way to solve this is to move/delete the rules file

sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

and then reboot the newly-cloned machine. CentOS will recreate the file with no problem.

Netsh.exe is a tool an administrator can use to configure and monitor Windows-based computers at a command prompt. With the Netsh.exe tool, you can direct the context commands you enter to the appropriate helper, and the helper then carries out the command. A helper is a Dynamic Link Library (.dll) file that extends the functionality of the Netsh.exe tool by providing configuration, monitoring, and support for one or more services, utilities, or protocols. The helper may also be used to extend other helpers. Continue Reading

This option allows the admin to configured a single home page for the user without the ability for the user to add any other secondary home pages if they are using IE7 or IE8. This setting will also work however if the users has IE5 and above installed.

Step 1. Edit a GPO that targets the users that you want to apply the home page setting.

Step 2. Navigate to User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates >Windows Components > Internet Explorer

Step 3. If you want to configure a single home for your users and/or you are using IE5 or IE6 edit the “Disable changing home page setting” Continue Reading

Synchronize time with external NTP server

Time synchronization is an important aspect for all computers on the network. By default, the clients in Active Directory environment computers get their time from a Domain Controller and the Domain Controller gets his time from the domain’s PDC Operation Master. Therefore the PDC must synchronize his time from an external source, actualy from external NTP.  You can use servers from ntp.org website. Before you begin, don’t forget to open the default UDP 123 port (in- and outbound) on your firewall.

1. First, locate your PDC Server. Open the command prompt and type: C:>netdom /query fsmo
2. Log in to your PDC Server and open the command prompt.
3. Stop the W32Time service: C:>net stop w32time Continue Reading

In the next few steps I will try to describe the migration procedure DNS Server on Windows 2003/2008 Server OS.

1. Stop the DNS Server service on the destination server:
   Enter the power shell and type :
   net stop “DNS SERVER”
2. Copy the DNS registry entriesOn the source machine, use the registry editor (regedit) to browse to the following node:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionDNS ServerZonesRight click on the “Zones” node and choose “Export“. Save the export as a .reg file (e.g. DNS.reg).Copy the DNS.reg file to the destination server and “Merge“.
3. Copy the DNS files
   Copy the contents of the %SystemRoot%System32DNS folder from the source machine to the same folder on the destination machine. I received an permissions error while trying to transfer the “Samples” folder. It is not necessary to transfer the samples.
4. Set the DNS Load method
   Using the Administrative Tools -> DNS MMC snap-in, on the “Advanced” tab, set the “Load zone data on startup:” to “From registry“. This tells the DNS server to load all zone data from the registry.
5. Start the “DNS Server” service on the destination server
   Enter the power shell and type :
   net start “DNS SERVER”

Using the DNS MMC snap-in, you will now see all the domains listed on the destination server.