Installing Hyper-V manager on Window 7 or Windows 8

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To manage your VMs from client machine on Windows 7 or 8 you need to install Hyper-V manager feature. To do so you can follow the below steps:

  • Download and install Remote Server Administration Tools  – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7887
  • Go to Start –> Control Panel –> Click on Programs
  • Click on Turn windows feature on or off link
  • Expand Remote Server Administration Tools –> Role Administration Tools
  • Select Hyper-V tools and click OK

  • You can access the Hyper-V manager from Start menu –> Administrative Tools –> Hyper-V Manager
  • Right click on the Hyper-V manager tree and click on Connect to server to connect to your Hyper-V Server

Unable to restore DB Backup from SQL 2008 R2 to SQL 2005- “RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating”

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If you have taken a backup from higher SQL version and tried to restore that DB to a lower version SQL server you will see such error. Well, the true fact is, it is impossible to restore higher version DB on lower SQL Version.

Solution

The only solution what I successfully tested is –

  • Create an empty Database in your lower version SQL Server
  • Right click on that newly created DB and click on Tasks –> Import Data
  • Choose the Source server and DB
  • Select the Tables you want to import

Windows 7 Cookbook – Unable to run .JNLP file (Java web start)

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Java Network Launching Protocol, or JNLP, is associated with Java Web Start initiative.
To modify the file association to open JNLP files

  • Click on Start –> Control Panel
  • Change the Control Panel view to View By Category
  • Click on Programs link
  • Under the Default Programs select Make a file type always open in a specific program
  • Under the name column Select .jnlp and click on Change Program button
  • Click on Browse
  • Go to jre bin folder and select javaws application –> Click OK
  • Click Close button


Now JNLP file will open by default with Java Web Start

WINDOWS 7 Cookbook- How to check TPM compatibility in your device

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Windows 7 has inbuilt encryption feature called BitLocker to encrypt your entire hard drive. If available, BitLocker seals the symmetric encryption key in a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 chip (available in some newer computers).
Few TPM equipped computers have TPM chip disabled in the BIOS. If you want to use this feature you must enable this from BIOS. After you enable the TPM chip, BitLocker performs the TPM initialization automatically.
However, to check whether your computer has TPM chip, you can follow the below instruction:

  • From Start menu click on Run
  • Type MMC and click on OK
  • In the MMC console windows – Click on File menu –> Add/Remove snap in..
  • From Available snap-in select TPM Management and click on Add button
  • Select local computer option and click on OK
  • Click OK to close the dialog box
  • Click on TPM Management on Local Computer
  • You will see the detail configuration if your device supports TPM

How to Install IIS 7.5 on Windows 7?

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IIS will not install by default in your Windows 7 machine. To install IIS you can perform the below procedure:

  • Click Start Menu and then click Control Panel
  • From control panel click View By and select Small Icons
  • Click on Programs and Features
  • Click on Turn Windows features on or off
  • In the windows features dialog box click Internet Information Services and click OK

How to Enable Access-based Enumeration-WIN 2008 File Server

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Access-based enumeration displays only the files and folders that a user has permissions to access from File Server. To enable this feature please follow the below steps:

  • Open Server Manager
  • Go to Roles –> File Services –> Share and Storage Management
  • From the Share Tab select the folder which you have already shared
  • Write click and select properties
  • Click on Advanced button
  • Select Enable access-based enumeration check box

My 2014 prediction for IT industry

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Hope 2014 will come with more positive wave and the world will regain its economic standing. So I believe there will also be a huge change in IT industry.

Change in CIO’s reporting structure

Time has come to change the reporting structure in corporate IT. Due to economic downturn few years back it was obvious to concentrate more on budget, cost and other financial issues and it was justified to report to CFO due to those facts. And the result of that change was – CIO became bureaucratic, less innovative, slow and a flat organization. This ultimately helps MSPs (Managed Service Provider) to grow like anything!!

However, the mammoths are shaking their body again and we have seen a positive sign of overcoming the business situation in 2013 which will continue in 2014 also and there will be a confidence of doing more and more investment. In this current world there is no alternative of innovation to beat the competitors and Information Technology has the inbuilt characteristics of being innovative.

Business will start demanding more from CIO to support customer needs which will create an internal conflict between CFO and CEO since CFO focuses more on internal processes. Finally CEO will win and CIO will start reporting to CEO. Who knows – may be with a new title – CPO (Chief Productivity Officer) 😉

The death of Corporate IT – we mourn!!

YES!! That will happen gradually. Let me ask you a question – Do you have electrician in your organization as a full-time employee to look after your Light, Air condition and other electronic stuff? –Definitely NOT!! Than why do you need people in your payroll to look after your Desktop/laptop issue, network and other IT equipment?

The size of Corporate IT is 60% less than that of 5 years back. Now we have so many Managed Service Providers who are really specialist on those day to day IT tasks. Moreover, business now wants to focus on their core activities and they are transferring their risk/administrative tasks to third party, so that they can concentrate more on their core businesses. There will only be few positions available for IT governance, IT Security and Vendor management.

The rise of Vertical IT

Well, business will not dare to say “BYE BYE IT”!!

As I have mentioned earlier Information Technology is the part and parcel of modern business, there will be a group of people who have core business knowledge and who can automate the business process to get best outcome. Here comes Vertical IT where technology and business knowledge blend together.

The change in BIG DATA concept

Can you remember the year 2000? People were crazy about WAP technology. Everybody started converting their web sites to be WAP enabled. By the way, do you see this word in the recent days? I am sure “NO”. But does it mean WAP is vanished? Definitely not – it improves and comes with different name. Now most of the web site can render same site as a desktop or mobile version.
I believe BIG DATA is also passing the same transition period. People yet to realize the usability and power of this concept and it will gradually evolve, maybe with a different name. OLD WINE IN A NEW BOTTLE!!

I wish you all a happy new year!!

How to Restore the Outlook Cache- autocomplete email addresses

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To those IT support guys who are now busy with WIN7 migration, you must be facing this problem after migrating user profile to a new laptop. However, if you want to restore the cache of outlook, please follow the below steps:

  • Log in to the old device with the user credential from which you want to restore the cache
  • From Run command type %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook and press enter
  • Copy the file with .nk2 extension
  • Log in to the new device with the user credential to which you want to restore the cache
  • From Run command type %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook and press enter
  • Close outlook and rename the existing .nk2 file
  • Copy the old .nk2 file and rename it as it shows in the new device
  • Run Outlook

Unable to delete Mailbox, menu grayed out – Exchange 2003

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After deleting mailbox by using Exchange Task wizard from Active Directory, your exchange will not automatically delete those mailboxes. And you won’t be able to delete exchange mailbox as the option will be grayed out. It is because there is “Deleted Mailbox Retention” policy which is there to protect you from yourself. After a certain number of days the mailboxes will automatically be purged.
However if you want to delete the mailbox immediately follow the below steps

  • Open Exchange System Manager
  • Expand Administrative Group and Go to your Mailboxes node
  • Right click on Mailboxes node and click on Run Cleanup agent
  • Now you can permanently delete those mailboxes