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The government of Egypt has announced that it will observe DST in 2014, and has released its DST Transitions for the Holy Month Ramadan.
The daylight saving time start on midnight of May 15th at exactly 11:59:59 PM, without applying the fix your users will face problems with Active Directory and Exchange Servers besides having their calendars off by one hour.
During this time, clocks will be turned back to standard time. This interruption in the DST schedule is designed to shorten the evening hours, making it easier for Muslims to observe the Ramadan fast during hours of daylight.
To avoid this you need to apply the fix provided by Microsoft using Microsoft SCCM or a Startup group Policy.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2967990
Instead of ending DST on 30th September, DST was suspended during Ramadan and then re-enabled again in September. The transition dates are:
Make Sure Make sure that you have the latest Windows Cumulative Update for your time zone and DST installed before running this fix-it solution. To find the latest update: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2904266
Please note that All Microsoft Outlook calendar entries for meetings and appointments between the 15th of May and 27th of June, 2014 will be shifted by 1 hour. This will happen because the previous DST settings were in place during adding these calendar
entries (previous DST settings are currently inapplicable). It is recommended that you recheck all calendar entries for the above mentioned period.
QLogic announcements has selected HP's latest Virtual Connect FlexFabric Solution as a key enabler of the industry's first 20Gb Ethernet connectivity. QLogic NetXtreme II Ethernet controllers are at the core of HP's latest Virtual Connect FlexFabric adapters and deliver the industry's highest performing Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI connectivity available. This announcement represents the first new product and technology arising from QLogic's recently acquired Broadcom Ethernet assets. QLogic Fibre Channel switching technology is embedded in HP's latest Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules, which also support FCoE and iSCSI traffic. The combination of leading QLogic technologies in the HP FlexFabric architecture creates a high-performance, 20Gb Ethernet fabric ideal for data center convergence and virtualization.
QLogic's NetXtreme II Ethernet controllers enable the HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630FLB Adapter and the HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 630M Adapter. These adapters provide 10Gb or 20Gb Converged Ethernet connectivity to HP BladeSystem servers. Leveraging HP's Flex-20 technology, these new adapters efficiently deliver twice the bandwidth of a 10Gb port, while reducing the management overhead associated with multiple 10Gb adapters. Both adapters offload FCoE and iSCSI traffic, eliminating software overhead and reducing CPU cycles for improved performance, while simplifying server-to-networked storage connectivity.
QLogic switching technology enables the new HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric-20/40 F8 Module for c-Class BladeSystem. The new module more than doubles the throughput of previous generations with 20Gb downlinks and provides eight flex ports that can be dynamically configured to support Ethernet, Fibre Channel, iSCSI or FCoE. QLogic's flex ports enable HP's Virtual Connect wire-once technology to deliver the simplest method to connect servers and storage to the network, while new 40GbE uplinks in the FlexFabric-20/40 F8 module speed traffic from server-to-core.
The HP Document Library for QuickSpecs, accessible from your desktop or mobile device, is a convenient central resource providing technical overviews and specifications for HP hardware and software.
QuickSpecs can be accessed off-line on with a Windows based HP QuickSpecs Offline application or through synchronization with standard cloud solutions.
Welcome to this new Series for HP System Insight Manager, in this series i will be discussing some notes related to Installation configuration and managing, and the relation with ICE and MOE (Insight Control Enviroment and Matrix Operating Enviroment)
First, Installing HPSIM 7.2 on windows 2008R2 SP2 (Acting as a Management Server)
a) 1-Install W2KR2 SP2
b) Install latest updates for the OS.
c) Install from roles and features [ IIS with ASP.Net, and FTP and WWW, DHCP,DNS, simple TCP/IP , .Net Framework 3.5sp1 ] services (When installing IIS Ensure that IIS Metabase Compatibility is installed)
d) Install .net frame work 1.1 (IT IS A MUST to install Net Framework 1.1 And .Net Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1)
e) install .Net frame work 4.0
f) install adobe flash player latest
g) Confirm that Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration is not selected.
h) Go to Computer MGMT, at the Web Service Extensions check that the ASP.Net is enabled, and WebDAV is disabled
i) Disable User Account Control
j) Create a DHCP scope, and configure the Bindings, and the DNS Dynamic update credentials, also at the DNS tab, choose Dynamically update DNS A and PTR records for DHCP clients that do not request.
I) Set the following registry key on the DHCP server:
A. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DHCPServer\Parameters
Value name: RogueAuthorizationRecheckInterval
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: Minutes between Authorization Intervals (Default = 60)
Set the following registry key on the DHCP server:
B. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DHCPServer\Parameters
Value name: DisableRogueDetection
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 1
2) Using Netsh from CMD, enable option 60:
netsh
netsh>dhcp
netsh dhcp>server \\<DHCP_server_machine_name>
netsh dhcp>add optiondef 60 PXEClient String 0 comment=option added for PXE support
netsh dhcp>set optionvalue 60 STRING PXEClient
netsh dhcp>exit
This is done in case you have a main DHCP server and this DHCP will be used to deploy servers in a separated VLAN
k) In DNS create a forward lookup zone and a reverse lookup zone, with “Allow both secure and non-secure dynamic update” options selected.
l) Install WAIK
m) Enable Windows ISCSI initiator
n) Configure the “DATA Execution Prevention” to “turn on for essential windows programs and services”
o) In the SNMP Service by right clicking and choosing Properties, in the security tab, choose the public, configure it for “READ Only”, and the Private for “Read And Write”
p) Create 2 local accounts, one as admin and the other as
q) Install the System Insight Manager and the Insight Control
For more information about the Installation process, please read the Installation guide for HP SIM v7.2, on the following link:
After installation of HP Insight Control has completed, there are several things that can be reviewed to confirm successful installation:
1- Installation status with mxconfig –l
2- Logs in c:\HPIC
3- HP Systems Insight Manager (mxdtf, mxdomainmgr) services running
4- Hostname resolution with mxgethostname
5- Database connectivity with mxgetdbinfo
The mxdomainmgr service is responsible for running the HP System Insight manager service while mxdtf service is responsible for the audit logging; in addition mxgetdbinfo is responsible for database connectivity.
For the first time to logging on the HPSIM interface locally, write the following in your IE browser http://localhost:280 or https://localhost:50000.
After Immediate installation of HPSIM, some basic configuration has to be performed:
a) Install licenses: Deploy a License Manager.
b) Verify software version: Help > About.
c) Set environment: Options > Managed Environment.
d) Set WMI Proxy: Options > Protocol Settings >WMI Mapper Proxy.
e) Set name resolution: Options > Security > System Link (Sets the format for use of system name, IP address or FQDN for system links)
f) Discovery
• Options >Discovery
• Configure general settings
• Configure global protocol settings
• Set credentials: Options >Security >Global Credentials
• Manage hosts files
g) Review discovered systems.
h) Configure HP Systems Insight Manager users (create and assign user rights).
i) Set up and customize status polling.
j) Configure problem notification.
Now Setting up managed systems involves:
a) Installing the ProLiant Support Pack on Windows systems for the first time
b) Configuring the managed system software
c) Configuring protocol settings
d) Configuring and executing discovery on HPSIM
e) Configure the Systems to use the trust certificate from the HP Systems Insight Manager.
f) Configure the Setting to use the desired HP Version Control Repository Manager.
A new addition to The Power of One solution from HP, by the Announcement of the new HP Virtual Connect Flex-Fabric 20/40 F8 Module for HP Blade System, as well as 2 new HP Flex-Fabric dual-port 20Gb 630 series Adapters for HP Blade system.
The new VC Flex-Fabric module would allow customers to simultaneously stream all movies and TV shows on Netflix in High Definition(HD) on a single 40GbE port.
The new VC Flex-Fabric 20/40 F8 Module delivers:
The new Virtual Connect has a simplified and intuitive Graphical User Interface and set-up Wizards, Embedded SNMP v1 and v2, in addition to the Command Line Interface.
Also it supports that any uplink can be used as a dedicated mirrored port from the server port(s).
The VC new module supports as its previous VC Flex-Fabric 24port modules the most common Data Center protocols: Ethernet, Fiber Channel, and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and accelerated iSCSI Connections.
It optimizes the hypervisor I/O requirements with Flex-10 and Flex-20 Adapters, with 2 modules you can provide six Flex-NICs and Two Flex-HBA connection to each server, delivering best practice network Configuration for most Hypervisors.
Virtual Connect Flex-Fabric 20/40 F8 is 100% compatible with current networks and will avoid having to replace each piece of equipments.
the New Virtual Connect is delivered with the backward compatibility to previous Flex-Fabric LOMs and FLBs, and with 2 new Adapters that supports its capabilities:
Each Flex-Fabric 20Gb adapter replaces a 10Gb NIC, and 8Gb FC HBA, simplifying I/O hardware by 50% and reducing cost 60%, thus:
Adapter firmware updates on multiple blade servers with HP Smart Update Manager (SUM) is supported for these Adapters.
In addition to this, it is highly noticeable that these adapters will be enabled under the condition of using the Virtual Connect new Firmware 4.20
from the verge
Microsoft today said it will make Windows free of charge for phones and tablets with screens smaller than 9 inches, a move designed to help boost t
Microsoft has been experimenting with a free, or low-cost version of "Windows 8.1 with Bing," which includes a handful of Microsoft apps and services aimed at Windows 7 users. It's unclear if this is the result of that effort. Microsoft simply referred to the new, free version as "Windows for Internet of Things," and is including a free year of Office 365.
Microsoft recently cut the price of Windows 8.1 licenses by 70 percent for some PC makers, reductions aimed at taking on low-cost tablets and Google Chromebooks that sell for less than $250. Previously Microsoft charged $50 per Windows 8.1 license
