Weblogs van Microsoft Nederland

Server 2012 CSV backup problemen

Jurjen Laene — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:32:00 GMT

Wanneer je tegen problemen aanloopt met betrekking tot het backuppen van CSV's op Server 2012 Clusters is er een aantal stappen die genomen kan worden voordat onze hulp meerwaarde biedt. Bijvoorbeeld, tijdens de backup valt er een CSV weg en zie je onderstaande error in een van de events;

'STATUS_CLUSTER_CSV_AUTO_PAUSE_ERROR(c0130021)’

Wat je nu het beste kunt is het volgen van onderstaande stappen (Let op: volg deze stappen in volgorde van opsomming);

- Update allereerst met deze hotfix;
2838669 Update that improves cluster resiliency in Windows Server 2012 is available
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2838669/EN-US

- Check vervolgens of je gebruik maakt van een software of hardware snapshot provider met onderstaand commando (in CMD); 'vssadmin list providers' (zonder quotes). Aan te raden vanuit Microsoft is om gebruik te maken van een hardware snapshot provider omdat dit (veel) minder impact heeft op de CSV's. Zie ook onderstaand artikel voor meer informatie;
http://blogs.technet.com/b/asim_mitra/archive/2009/12/11/snapshot-provider-considerations-while-backing-up-a-csv-cluster.aspx

- Indien er gebruik wordt gemaakt van een Software Snapshot provider, zorg dan dat er in ieder geval Per Lun\Node Serialization wordt gebruikt om de CSV impact te minimaliseren. Om dit te doen is het aan te raden de stappen uit onderstaand artikel te volgen;
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh757922.aspx

Mochten de problemen zich, na het volgen van bovenstaande stappen, nog steeds voordoen dan kan er getest worden met ODX\Trimming disabled. Dit doe je met behulp van onderstaande acties;
*Disable trim by running this command on all Nodes:
- fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 1

*Disable ODX by running this command on all Nodes:
- Set-ItemProperty hklm:\system\currentcontrolset\control\filesystem -Name "FilterSupportedFeaturesMode" -Value 1

Succes en tot een volgende blog!

Jurjen Laene

NetSocket Cloud Experience Manager for Microsoft Lync

William van Male — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:37:00 GMT

Microsoft Lync connects people everywhere as part of their everyday productivity experience. When issues in the underlying IP network affect a user’s Lync experience, unified communications (UC) managers need to solve those problems immediately. Unfortunately, many service assurance solutions on the market today fall short and do not capture all the information necessary or automatically correlate related issues back to these root causes. In addition, the number of costly third-party probes required at each endpoint in a Lync UC routed network can exceed what many companies can afford.

This paper will discuss how NetSocket's Cloud Experience Manager's (CEM) unique integration with the Microsoft Lync Network Diagnostics API can provide the insight required to anticipate, isolate and remediate voice, video and data issues in Lync and hybrid UC environments. It also describes a demonstration of how CEM resolves Lync issues in a real-world scenario.

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator

William van Male — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:07:00 GMT

It’s been a long road, but the initial release of the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator is here. No, that isn’t a mistake, the calculator has been rebranded. Yes, this is no longer a Mailbox server role calculator; this calculator includes recommendations on sizing Client Access servers too! Originally, marketing wanted to brand it as the Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Client Access and Mailbox Server Roles Theoretical Capacity Planning Calculator, On-Premises Edition. Wow, that’s a mouthful and reminds me of this branding parody. Thankfully, I vetoed that name (you’re welcome!).

The calculator supports the architectural changes made possible with Exchange 2013:

Client Access Servers

Like with Exchange 2010, the recommendation in Exchange 2013 is to deploy multi-role servers. There are very few reasons you would need to deploy dedicated Client Access servers (CAS); CPU constraints, use of Windows Network Load Balancing in small deployments (even with our architectural changes in client connectivity, we still do not recommend Windows NLB for any large deployments) and certificate management are a few examples that may justify dedicated CAS.

When deploying multi-role servers, the calculator will take into account the impact that the CAS role has and make recommendations for sizing the entire server’s memory and CPU. So when you see the CPU utilization value, this will include the impact both roles have!

When deploying dedicated server roles, the calculator will recommend the minimum number of Client Access processor cores and memory per server, as well as, the minimum number of CAS you should deploy in each datacenter.

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Full article on Exchange Team Blog.

Beware of IIS authentication settings when deploying SharePoint 2013

Mark Priem — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:04:00 GMT

Recently I worked on an interesting case during one that was blocking deployment of one of the SharePoint 2013 projects I was working for.
Basically what happened was that although deployment of SharePoint went well, some of the Service Applications like Managed Metadata, User Profile Service, Business Connectivity Services, and Search did not work properly. The symptoms varies, but a common error message in the ULS logs stated:

02/27/2013 09:58:52.07 w3wp.exe (0x1910) 0x2428 SharePoint Server Taxonomy ca42 Medium Exception returned from back end service. System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[System.ServiceModel.ExceptionDetail]:
AccessDeniedEx:The current user has insufficient permissions to perform this operation. (FaultDetail is equal to An ExceptionDetail, likely created by IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults=true, whose value is: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: AccessDenied Ex:The current user has insufficient permissions to perform this operation. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.MetadataWebServiceApplication.GetServiceSettings(GuidrawPartitionId) at SyncInvokeGetServiceSettings(Object , Object[] , Object[] ) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs) at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.In... 5510ed21-c1ef- 4b6f-8305-33afc4200a76

Also after doing some WCF tracing I found that there was an interesting claim in the SAML token (as part of Service Application authentication; Remember... Everything in the Service app world is claims):
<saml:Attribute AttributeName="isauthenticated" AttributeNamespace="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/claims/2009/08" a:OriginalIssuer="SecurityTokenService" xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2009/09/identity/claims">
<saml:AttributeValue>False</saml:AttributeValue>

Clearly there is something fishy going on here J.

After working on this for most part of a week, even with help of my colleagues at Premier Support, we were not able to nail this one down. Fortunately someone at the customer remembered running into similar issues with a SharePoint 2010 project they did years back.
The solution for that problem was to set the advanced Anonymous Authentication settings of the IIS root node to IUSR:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770966(v=WS.10).aspx

Using a default Windows deployment will not require you to do this, but this customer in particular followed a "customize if possible" strategy for their Windows build images, and changing this setting (among many others) to a non-default setting of "Application Pool identity".

I have tried to find out why this breaks SharePoint functionality so severely, but was unable to. (If you know, please post to the comments!).

Fortunately we were able to move forward with the project. I hope I can help at least one of you peeps out there, by posting this!

Register now: SharePoint 2013 WCM Bootcamp

Eric Dubbelaar — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:41:46 GMT

SharePoint 2013 offers new and improved capabilities for building public-facing websites. Find out how to leverage those capabilities to build modern public-facing websites during the SharePoint 2013 WCM Bootcamp on Tuesday June 11.

About this event

During the SharePoint 2013 WCM Bootcamp you will learn how to build websites using responsive web design and bring your website to live using the SharePoint 2013 content publishing capabilities. Additionally you will learn how to plan, design and build websites by making the best use of the new functionality that SharePoint 2013 offers you.

Agenda

The SharePoint 2013 WCM Bootcamp will start with a Keynote delivered by Fredrik Holm. Thereafter, we will split into two tracks, one for web designers and one for architects/developers.

Keynote Fredrik Holm	Keynote Fredrik Holm
WEB DESIGNER TRACK by Josh Stickler	ARCHITECT / DEVELOPER TRACK by Waldek Mastykarz
Introduction	Introduction (starting with output from session #3 design)
Building responsive websites with SharePoint 2013	Planning for public-facing websites (information architecture; catalogues vs. in-site content; cross-site publishing; multi-site scenarios);
Managing user experience (Design Manager & Snippet Gallery (demonstrating shift)	Building multilingual websites (Step-by-step cross-site publishing)
Bringing your website to life (Display Templates)	Engaging with visitors (user segments)
Bringing your website to life (Search REST API and jQuery UI)	Building intelligent/user-centric websites (recommendations; query suggestions; query spelling suggestions; page not found widget; responsive web design)
Recap & Inspiration	Recap & Inspiration

The Web Design Track, Josh Stickler

Designers will begin with building the website from static HTML prototype. Then we will learn about lifecycle of a website and how Design Manager can help them support different scenarios. Following this, we will go a bit deeper into interacting with data from SharePoint and customizing the look. The we will dive a little more into JS and show how web designers can use this to work with jQuery UI widgets.

The Architect /Developer Track, Waldek Mastykarz

This track will start with the branded website which will be built during session #3 on the Design Track. We will show the branding and explain what needs to be achieved. Then we will discuss the different publishing models SP2013 offers and show some relevant good practices. We will then move to cross-site publishing including multilingual websites. The next step will be to make the website respond to feedback from the visitors through user segments. Finally we will explore some concepts that allow you to build a really intelligent website.

We will finish the day together with a recap of what we have done hoping to inspire you by showing the coolest capabilities from some of the SharePoint 013 websites that are already live today.

Important Registration Details

Dates:	June 11, 2013
Location:	GeldMuseum Leidseweg 90 3531 BG Utrecht Nederland
Suggested Attendees:	Technical consultants, level 200-300
Registration Site:	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032554364&Culture=nl-NL&community=0
Cost:	All registrations are subject to Microsoft approval and availability. You will receive a confirmation email within 48 hours indicating your registration status.
Registration Process:	There is no charge for this exclusive event.

Space is limited. RSVP ASAP!

Office 365 sales guidance for partners now on MPN!

Eric Dubbelaar — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:36:00 GMT

The latest Office 365 sales guidance for partners is now available thru MPN! If you are new to selling Office 365 or are currently selling and want to understand the new approaches that Microsoft is recommending then this content is for you:

Introducing the New Office and How to Demo	NEW!	See a new Office demo. Learn how you can deliver the same demo to your customers. Hear the view point of someone experienced in delivering this demo.
Selling Office 365 – A New Era of Partner Opportunity	NEW!	The new Office creates opportunities for Microsoft partners to grow their business with Enterprise customers. Learn where these opportunities are occurring, hear from your peers, and take the next steps to win in the cloud.
Selling Office 365 – Benefits of Becoming an Office 365 Cloud Deployment Partner	REFRESHED	Learn about the partner opportunity for growing an Office 365 deployment practice. This session provides an overview of the managed services opportunity and how Microsoft fits including an introduction to Microsoft's Cloud Deployment program -- a clear path for partners to become a 'go-to' resource in the enterprise for selling and deploying Office 365.
Selling Office 365 – Qualify the Opportunity with Cloud Principles	CORE	Learn how to qualify Office 365 selling opportunities.
Selling Office 365 – Why use the Customer Decision Framework (CDF)	RERESHED	Learn how partners can sell Office 365 using the Customer Decision Framework (CDF). This session provides partners insights into opportunity qualification and the sales process methodology.
Selling Office 365 – Licensing Overview for System Integrators	NEW!	This session provides an Office 365 licensing overview for System Integrators. Gain context on how the Office and Office 365 products have evolved over time. Learn the new Office 365 offerings and how we license the new Office including top customer scenarios.
Selling Office 365 – Next Generation Onboarding	UPDATE/ REPLACE	Learn about the next generation onboarding experience designed and developed for the new Office 365. The new approach gets customers up and running in minutes with a smooth path to deployment over weeks.
New Office - Accelerate Sales with the Customer Immersion Experience	CORE	This session provides an introduction to the Microsoft Customer Immersion Experience (CIE), a hands-on introduction to Windows 8 and the new Office that gives our customers an opportunity to experience these powerful new productivity solutions for themselves.
Accelerating Sales with the Specialist Team Unit (STU)	CORE	This session provides an overview of Microsoft's Specialist Sales organization and their focus on or solution selling. The session provides an insight into key priorities and investment areas, how the organization is structured and how partners can team to make money together with Office 365.
Office 365 - Partnering with Microsoft	CORE	Learn how to partner with Microsoft by gaining insights into the Microsoft culture, organization structure and business priorities that are driving the partner opportunities for winning together in the enterprise.
Office 365 - Microsoft People Resources for Partners	CORE	This session provides an overview of the Enterprise Partner Team organization, a field-level team providing sales and technical resources including PTA/PAM role support for partners.
Selling with Microsoft - An Overview of the Sales Organization	CORE	Learn more about Microsoft's Enterprise sales motions. This session provides insight into how sales are structured and incented, the influence of the cloud on sales force design and how partners can engage with the Microsoft sales force.

Foutmelding met Runbooks in System Center 2012 Orchestrator

Tony Krijnen — Wed, 08 May 2013 11:18:45 GMT

Wanneer je een connectie maakt tussen System Center 2012 Service Manager SP1 en System Center 2012 Orchestrator kan het zijn dat bij een aanvraag in de gebruikers portal een Orchestrator Runbook dan niet wil starten.

Je krijgt dan de foutmelding:

Invoking Runbook [naam]
Runbook invocation failed because the Runbook contract has changed.
See the eventlog for additional information.

Indien geïmplementeerd kan je in de Operations Manager Event log deze foutmelding tegenkomen:

Error
Source: System Center Orchestrator Connector
Event ID: 34170

Cannot locate Runbook "Test Runbook" with Orchestrator service.
As a result automated activity "RB669" will fail.
Exception: System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceQueryException
Message: Unauthorized
HTTP Status Code: 401
Query: [URL]

Als workaround voor dit probleem kun je een nieuw user account wat je gebruikt voor de Orchestrator Connector. Geef voor dit “Run As Account” wat gebruikt word voor de synchronisatie tussen Orchestrator en Service Manager een simpel wachtwoord (dus zonder speciale karakters).

Het product team is op de hoogte van dit probleem en werkt aan een oplossing.

Stay in touch? Wil je op de hoogte worden gehouden van de laatste ontwikkelingen gebruik dan de Windows 8 App, schrijf je dan in voor onze gratis nieuwsbrief, volg mij op Twitter (of TechNet) en meld je aan op onze Be-Init Community site!)

Register now for the new Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Office 365 in May and June

Eric Dubbelaar — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:10:08 GMT

Be sure you’re ready to help your customers make the move to the cloud with Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Office 365. Register now for the sessions in May and June via https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/us/Pages/Training/practice-accelerator-for-office-365.aspx

Practice Accelerator provides intermediate- to advanced-level training in Office 365 solutions. Practice Accelerator for Office 365 is designed for Cloud Accelerate and Cloud Essentials partners who are planning to deploy Office 365 in environments with fewer than 2,400 seats. Ideal participants for this offering are project personnel with technical backgrounds, such as those in technical project management, technical consulting, or technical support.

In addition to the presentations, demonstrations, on-demand sessions, and discussions, you are expected to practice on your own, by using existing Cloud Partner demo environments or by deploying hybrid or single sign-on (SSO) environments on your own machine with a self-created virtual machine.

Course outline

Session one (3-hour online training session)

Introduction to Office 365
Office 365 SKUs and plans
Deployment phases
Microsoft Online Services Portal (MOSP)
Key predeployment considerations

Session two (3-hour online training session)

Customer environment discovery
Networking and naming services planning
User identity and account provisioning planning
Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online planning
Client and end-user experience

Session three (4 to 6 hours of on-demand training)

Networking and naming services tasks
User identity and account provisioning tasks
Deploying directory synchronization
Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online preparation

Session four (4-hour online training session)

Post-migration infrastructure optimization
Maintenance and administration
Additional managed service opportunities
FAQ and handouts

About this Practice Accelerator

Delivery format: A combination of on-demand and instructor-led online training sessions over a five business-day period. Select a language from the options listed in the “Register now” section for specific dates and times.
Cost: If you are a Cloud Accelerate member or Cloud Essentials partner, you can register for Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Office 365 at no cost. Otherwise five partner advisory hours will be deducted from your company’s account when you register.
What you get: Reusable tools and templates that can be used in customer engagements. Review the Practice Accelerator for Office 365 data sheet for a complete list.

SharePoint & Office 365 Deployment Planning Services; now available

Eric Dubbelaar — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:30:11 GMT

Now Available! Software Assurance Planning Services – one of the most-utilized benefits – now has Office 2013 engagements available to help your customers determine how best to deploy the latest Office products.

Engagements are now available for Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013, and Exchange 2013 as well as engagements to explore migrating to Office 365. Help your customers discover the benefits of deploying the latest products with qualified partners.

More information on these new planning services can be found here:

SharePoint (http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/planning-services-overview.aspx#tab=6)
Lync and Exchange (http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/planning-services-overview.aspx#tab=3)

Please visit the SA Planning Services Partner Portal for more information about the requirements and registration steps to become a qualified partner.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager kan VM niet afsluiten

Tony Krijnen — Thu, 02 May 2013 23:49:00 GMT

Wanneer je een Virtual Machine hebt aangemaakt met Windows Server 2012 in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 en deze daarna direct een Shutdown command geeft kan het zijn dat je de volgende melding krijgt:

Virtual Machine Manager – The Virtual Machines cannot be shutdown because the Virtual Guest Services are not installed on the guest operating system (SP02) or because the installed Virtual Guest Services do not support shutting down the guest operating system that is running on the virtual machine.

To shut down, you must install Virtual Guest Services that support shutting down the guest operating system. ID: 1735

Het is uiteraard niet nodig om de Guest Services in Windows Server 2012 bij te werken. Dit is ook niet mogelijk want de optie is grayed out:

Dit komt omdat System Center Virtual Machine Manager nog geen refresh van de Virtual Machine heeft gehad.

Geef een refresh na de installatie van de VM voordat je het shutdown commando geeft en het werkt dan prima.
Ook is het mogelijk de VM een shutdown commando te geven vanuit de Hyper-V console.

Gratis technische sessies voor Small Business Partners

Tony Krijnen — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:50:00 GMT

We nodigen onze Small Business Partners graag uit om eind mei een van de 5 gratis technische sessies bij te wonen. Tijdens deze dag zal ik samen met mijn collega Hans van der Meer een overzicht geven van de mogelijkheden van Windows Server 2012 Essentials, virtualizatie, de migratie mogelijkheden van Small Business Server, Exchange on-premise of toch over naar Office 365? ‘s-middags gaan we dieper in op de mogelijkheden van Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Lync en Sharepoint.

De sessies zullen bol staan van de demonstraties en ruimte voor vragen. Dit zijn inschrijflinks voor de verschillende dagen en de locaties:

>> Dinsdag 21 mei - Nieuwegein
>> Vrijdag 24 mei - Eindhoven
>> Dinsdag 28 mei - Amsterdam
>> Donderdag 30 mei – Groningen
>> Vrijdag 31 mei – Rotterdam

Ik zie jullie graag op een van de evenementen!

Kennissessie 13 juni: Windows 8 tablets voor grote organisaties

Caroline Witvoet — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:16:00 GMT

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032549866&culture=nl-nl

Trends als Consumerization of IT draaien vooral om meer vrijheid voor eindgebruikers. Welke mogelijkheden biedt Windows 8 om een goede balans te vinden tussen vrijheid en controle?

Tijdens deze interactieve sessie komt u te weten op welke manieren Windows 8 uw organisatie helpt met de Consumerisation of IT trend om te gaan. Werk blijft dus niet meer beperkt tot de pc op kantoor. De eindgebruiker wil kunnen werken wanneer, waar en op welk apparaat ze maar op dat moment gebruiken, kunnen gebruiken. Dat brengt veel beheer-uitdagingen met zich mee. Windows 8 en de recentelijk uitgegeven Windows 8 tablet helpen deze trend het hoofd te bieden.

U krijgt tijdens deze interactieve sessie antwoord op de volgende vragen:

• Hoe stelt Windows 8 u in staat beter in te spelen op de veranderende behoeften van de eindgebruikers in uw organisatie?
• Hoe helpt u de productiviteit te verhogen, en tegelijkertijd beveiliging en naleving van bedrijfsregels te verbeteren?
• Wat zijn de mogelijkheden van de Windows 8 tablet om deze te integreren in de bedrijfsprocessen?

Bezoek deze gratis Vision Day sessie als u op zoek bent naar een scenario waarbij uw eindgebruikers de vrijheid hebben en u de controle kunt behouden, zonder een arsenaal aan apparaten te hoeven beheren.

Vision Day Microsoft 16 mei 2013

Caroline Witvoet — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:37:00 GMT

Op donderdag 16 mei bent u van harte welkom op ons kantoor voor een Vision Day.

Vision Days zijn Microsoft dagen die iedere eerste en derde donderdag van de maand plaatsvinden. Tijdens deze Microsoft Vision Days vinden er verschillende sessies plaats die onder verdeeld zijn in kennissessies en praktijksessies. Bij kennissessies wordt u door Microsoft experts op de hoogte gebracht over de nieuwste producten, oplossingen en de visie van Microsoft. Bij praktijksessies laten wij u, onder begeleiding van Microsoft experts, zelf verschillende software scenario’s ervaren.

U kunt de volgende sessies bijwonen op deze dag.
In de ochtend zullen plaatsvinden:

Windows Azure voor Enterprise IT
SQL Server 2012 voor grote organisaties

In de middag zullen plaatsvinden:

Het datacenter in de praktijk met Windows Server 2012, Windows Azure en System Center 2012
Business intelligence in Het Nieuwe Office
Windows 8 tablets voor grote organisaties
Social computing met SharePoint 2013 & Yammer

LET OP! Deze sessie is bedoelt voor grote organisaties met minimaal 250 werkplekken. Deze sessies zijn niet geschikt voor partners. Voor partner evenementen en trainingen kunt u terecht op www.microsoft.nl/partner Voor organisaties met minder dan 250 werkplekken kunt u terecht op www.microsoft.nl/evenementen

Lync 2013 VDI Plugin for Citrix XenApp - Tech Preview

William van Male — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:51:00 GMT

As you may have already noticed, earlier this week we opened up our Tech Preview program for optimized support of the Microsoft Lync™ 2013 client to all current Citrix XenApp customers under active Subscription Advantage. This phase of the Tech Preview program gives our customers the opportunity to evaluate the Citrix Receiver Display Adapter that integrates with Microsoft’s Lync™ 2013 VDI Plug-in for Windows. The Display Adapter plug-in has been posted on the Citrix Downloads page under “Citrix Receiver” in the “Betas and Tech Previews” section (visible to Citrix customers and partners after login). Please use the Support Forum to provide feedback or request assistance from the community.

Full article and Q&A on Citrix Blog.

Azure Powershell installatie error

Tony Krijnen — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:02:11 GMT

Wanneer je van de Windows Azure Downloads site de Windows Azure PowerShell command line tools wilt installeren op Windows 7 kan het zijn dat de Web Platform Installer een foutmelding geeft dat het product niet kan worden gevonden.

Wanneer je van http://www.windowsazure.com/nl-nl/downloads/ de Windows Azure PowerShell download:

En dan de Web Platform Installer start en je krijgt deze melding:

“Microsoft Web Platform Installer couldn’t find the product you tried to install. Either the link you clicked is incorrect or you may be overriding your feed with a different feed.”

Windows Azure Powershell gebruikt PowerShell 3.0. Probeer je deze los te downloaden en te installeren van de Microsoft website krijg je ook een foutmelding dat dit product niet voor uw systeem bedoeld is.

Dit probleem wordt veroorzaakt doordat niet alle updates op de PC zijn geïnstalleerd. Indien je Windows 7 hebt ga naar een command prompt en type VER [Enter]. Controleer of versie 6.1.7601 hebt. Dit is Windows 7 met Service Pack 1. Wanneer je 6.1.7600 hebt is Service Pack 1 niet geïnstalleerd. Download en installeer Service Pack 1 en de andere updates van Windows Update en probeer dan opnieuw de installatie.

Build Apps and get a Windows Phone 8

Matthijs Hoekstra — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Yes, we hebben weer telefoons. Zie hier de details van de actie: http://blog.rajenki.com/2013/04/build-apps-and-get-a-windows-phone-8/

Btw, dit is de laatste post van mij op dit Blog. Ik vertrek naar de US en ga voor het Windows Phone team werken. Mijn collega Rajen neemt de Windows Phone taken over (vandaar dat de actie op zijn blog staat)

Webontwikkeling

Renata Bignardi — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:02:00 GMT

Webontwikkeling

Als MKB-organisatie kan het uitrollen van belangrijke bedrijfsapplicaties via het web u tijd, geld en operationele obstakels besparen. Deze IT-experts zijn gespecialiseerd in het uitrollen van webgebaseerde IT-oplossingen die u helpen uw MKB-organisatie efficiënter in te richten en transacties effectiever te verwerken.

Vind een IT-expert voor Webontwikkeling

Win8 Premier Dynamics Services APP

Steven Vlaanderen Oldenzeel — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:05:00 GMT

In Februari heeft ons team de Windows 8 App met de beschrijving voor alle Premier Dynamics Services gelanceerd. En hij is volledig gratis!

Om eenvoudig door de lijst te navigeren kun je op de gewenste Services Family klikken, of selecteer de vraag wat uw omgeving nodig heeft. De juiste Services zullen eenvoudig als antwoord op uw vraag worden weergegeven.

Nog geen Windows 8? Deze informatie is eveneens beschikbaar via http://www.pfedynamics.com/

Alle Credits voor het bouwen van deze App gaan naar Martijn Bronkhorst.

Succes.

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Select a color theme for your app

Martin Tirion — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:05:53 GMT

Most of the times the default templates used for apps have very basic color themes: black and white (okay, and some gray). Your app will come more to life if you use a good color theme, matching your content. Question is: which colors are best to use?

Select a color theme

Something I found very handy is the website http://kuler.adobe.com. This website offers a large collection of color themes, where each theme has 5 colors. You can search for a topic to find interesting themes, e.g. ‘vacation’, ‘beach’, etcetera. This is an example of one of the themes:

These colors are then the basic colors of your app. There is not a real default selection which color is used for what. You have to make your own choices there. Just make sure that the contrast always works. E.g. dark text on a light background is most of the time best for reading.

Whit Kuler you can see the RGB values of the colors by clicking on the button just before News & Features on the right.

This can be useful to enter them by hand in Blend or Visual Studio. You can also “copy” them by using the eyedropper tool either in a design tool like Photoshop or Blend. In the picture below you see the color editor in Blend (usually on the right). The light green circle shows the eyedropper tool. Click the tool and then click the color you want to “copy”. The light blue box marks the color edit box. In that text field you can enter the HEX value that is shown above in Kuler.

Using the color theme in a structured way in your app will bring your app even more to life.

“Waar was uw computer mee bezig tijdens de DDoS?”

Hans Bos — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:12:44 GMT

Microsoft publiceert twee keer per jaar een Security Intelligence Report (SIR). Gisteren introduceerden we de 14e editie.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/default.aspx

Jaren geleden haalde computer beveiliging en cyber-aanvallen op organisaties, overheden of financiële instellingen nauwelijks het algemene nieuws. Vandaag komen we tijdens het 'surfen' over internet bijna onvermijdelijk de berichten tegen over de nieuwste onderneming die slachtoffer is geworden van een cyber-aanval. Maar dit kan de verkeerde indruk wekken. Cybercriminelen vallen zeker niet alleen de grote ondernemingen aan. Ze gaan waar het geld is en benutten infrastructuur die beschikbaar is en consumenten besteden meer tijd online dan ooit.

Editie 14 van het Security Intelligence Rapport kijkt naar het belang van het gebruiken van een up-to-date antivirus programma. Het onderzoek toonde aan dat het wereldwijd gemiddeld ruim vijf keer waarschijnlijker is dat een computer 'geïnfecteerd' wordt indien er geen antivirus wordt gebruikt.

New data analyzed by Microsoft reveals the magnitude of the additional risk that such computers and their users face: in the second half of 2012, computers that did not have real-time antimalware protection were more than 5 times as likely to be infected with malware and potentially unwanted software as computers that did have protection.

De aantal vormen van 'Malware' is enorm toegenomen sinds de jaren '90. In 1991 waren er ongeveer 1.000 typen malware bekend. In 2001 was dit ongeveer 60.000. Nu kan 'malware' zich dynamisch veranderen om een nieuwe vorm te genereren.

De trend in het door de Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) gevonden aantal malware op computers in Nederland is onder het wereldwijde gemiddelde en ook nog verder dalende.

The MSRT detected malware on 2.6 of every 1,000 computers scanned in the Netherlands in 4Q12 (a CCM score of 2.6, compared to the 4Q12 worldwide average CCM of 6.0).

Goede antivirus software op de computer is één van de belangrijkste beschermingen tegen malware.

An antivirus or antimalware product that offers real-time protection is one of the most crucial defenses a computer user has against these and other malware distribution tactics.

Het nieuwe SIR onderzoek toont echter aan dat in de tweede helft van 2012 (juli - december 2012) 24% van de computers wereldwijd geen adequate of actuele malware op de computer aan had staan.

Unfortunately, many computers are not protected by real- time antimalware software, either because no such software has been installed, because it has expired, or because it has been disabled intentionally by the user or secretly by malware.
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On average, about 24 percent of computers scanned by the MSRT each month in 2H12 were not running real-time antimalware software or were running out- of-date antimalware software at the time they were scanned .

Naast het hebben van adequate anti-virus software is ook het zoveel mogelijk gebruiken van de meest recente versies van software van invloed.

Computers running Windows 8 had the highest rate of protection, with just 8.1 percent of computers running the 32-bit edition and 7.0 percent of computers running the 64-bit edition lacking up-to-date real-time protection. Windows 8 includes real-time antimalware and antispyware protection by default, which is likely a significant factor in the reduced number of Windows 8 computers not running security software; previous releases of Windows did not include real- time antimalware software by default.

Adequate bescherming tegen malware is met de recente Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) aanvallen in Nederland ook erg actueel.

Een DDoS aanval op een website of internet service maakt vaak gebruik van met malware geïnfecteerde computers. Zonder dat de eigenaar van zo’n computer er dan iets van merkt of weet, kan die computer deelnemen aan een DDoS aanval op een organisatie.

Het Nederlands Cyber Security Center (NCSC) omschrijft het bijvoorbeeld zo:

DoS-aanvallen kunnen ook door middel van botnets worden uitgevoerd. Een botnet bestaat uit een groot aantal besmette computers en servers waarmee een kwaadwillende vrij gemakkelijk, vanuit één centraal punt, opdracht kan geven voor het doen van een DDoS-aanval. https://www.ncsc.nl/dienstverlening/expertise-advies/kennisdeling/factsheets/factsheet-continuiteit-van-online-diensten.html

Het NCSC geeft in haar “Factsheet Continuïteit van onlinediensten” een aantal adviezen aan organisaties om zich voor te bereiden of verdedigen tegen een DDoS aanval.

Advies 1: Stel een baseline vast en monitor uw infrastructuur
Advies 2: Instrueer de communicatie adviseur van uw organisatie.
Advies 3: Maak gebruik van de diensten van uw provider.
Advies 4: Informeer naar de aanpak (weerstand en repressie maatregelen) van uw ISP bij DoS-aanvallen en check de contractuele afspraken hierover.
Advies 5: Denk na over de incident response en fail-over scenario’s van de onlinediensten.
Advies 6: Implementeer de voorgestelde (mitigerende) maatregelen aan het einde van deze factsheet.

Het NCSC geeft ook een overzicht van mogelijke maatregelen tegen Denial of Service aanvallen. De cijfers in het nieuwe Security Intelligence Report tonen weer aan dat maatregelen nemen inderdaad belangrijk is. En dat ook dit bij onszelf kan beginnen.

Naast de NCSC adviezen aan organisaties, zijn dit de basis adviezen uit het SIR editie 14 waar we per computer zelf iets aan kunnen doen:

Gebruik legale software
Gebruik anti-virus software
Gebruik de meest actuele versies van software

Hiermee bereikt u veel om te voorkomen dat u bijvoorbeeld ongemerkt bijdraagt aan de DDoS op organisaties. Dit zijn ook adviezen die de Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken (NVB) noemt in haar ‘checklist veilig internetbankieren’

Websites aanmaken in Windows Azure

Tony Krijnen — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:00:32 GMT

Hierbij een handig artikel dat ik gemaakt heb over het aanmaken van websites in Windows Azure. Ik heb het in het Engels geschreven zodat er meer mensen wat aan hebben.

In order to follow these steps you do need a Windows Azure account. You can create a free test account for 90 days but you do need a creditcard for this. If you have a MSDN subscription then you can use this for Windows Azure.

The following steps assume you have created your account and are able to logon to the Windows Azure Portal. Now let us create a website!

Create a New Website

Logon to the Windows Azure Portal

At the bottom, click the NEW icon

Select Compute | Web site | From Gallery

On the Add Web App page ALL is selected by default. Scroll down and note how many popular (open source) Web Apps are all available to deploy into an Azure website: DotNetNuke, Drupal, Joomla, MojoPortal, PHP, WordPress, etc.

On the Add Web App page select CMS from the left and choose MojoPortal.

Mojoportal is an open source content management system based on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL. Click on the arrow to go to page 2.

In the URL box, type a unique name for your website, like the ITCAMP[Postalcode] where [Postalcode] is your postalcode number, or use your own unique name.

Leave the default “Create a new SQL database” option and make sure you select West Europe as your Region (Unless you are not from Western Europe). Make up a Database username and give it a strong password. Then click on the arrow to the right to go to step 3.

On the Specifiy Database Settings page, enter a name for the new database, select New SQL database server from the pull down box and provide the desired Server login name and password. Make sure the region is set to West Europe.

Click the checkmark icon at the right hand bottom to deploy your website.

Note how quick the complete website is deployed. Within a few minutes the website is available for configuration!

Using your New Website

From the Windows Azure Portal, click on the Completed Operation icon on the right hand botton:

The status of your website is displayed, click on the Details button to see the steps that were taken to deploy the website.

From the Details window, click Setup to configure the website.

You are now going to the setup page for the MojoPortal website. In this step MojoPortal is going to create the database tables and setup the website for the first use.

After a few seconds the setup is done. At the bottom of the page you can than go to the Site home page. Click on this link.

From the MojoPortal website, click the Sign In link at the top. Login to the website with the username admin@admin.com and the password admin. You are now in the MojoPortal control center. From the top menu bar click My Account. It is important that you immediately change the default username and password.

Next, click the Change Password link to change the default password. Enter the old and new password and click Change. Then click continue.

The rest is MojoPortal functionality. You can find the documentation for this on www.mojoportal.com. Click on administration to see the options. In Site Settings you can change the name and skin for this website.

Personally I’m a big fan of a website skin design program called Artisteer. You can very easy create a skin for MojoPortal (or Wordpress, etc) using this program. Especially the random skin feature is great. No need to learn any CSS and it comes with a great deal of rights free artwork. The full version of this program costs $ 129,95.

Managing your New Website

Let’s switch back to the Windows Azure Portal. From the Websites option, click on the right arrow next to your website.

Note the options on the Quick Start menu. From here you can click on the dashboard, monitor, configure, scale etc links.

Let’s start with the dashboard. Here you’ll find an overview of the monitoring and usage of your website.

Now let’s take a look at Configure. Here you can enter a custom domain name to be used with your website but in order to do this the website has to be scaled.

Click on the Scale your site now link.

Note how on this page you can change the website mode from free to shared or reserved. To be able to change the domain name you have to change the web site mode to Reserved. You can then change the Instance count to a maximum of 10 instances.

This concludes the steps to create a website in Windows Azure. The steps below are shown for reference how I’ve added a custom domain name to the website.

Important
Note that when you change the state of the Web site mode from Free to Reserved this will change the cost model on your Windows Azure account. Before you change this make sure you are aware of what the pricing model is for the website and instances.

First we’ve upgraded our website to reserved.

Once the scaling of the website was completed we clicked on the Configure link.
We were now able to change the domain name to whatever we want. Under domain names a new option manage domains was now available:
Clicking on the Manage Domains link shows this screen:

So you first have to create a CNAME record to prove you own the domain name and then create an A record to the domain name you want. Once that’s populated the custom domain name works.

(The website referenced in this blog post is no longer online as it was solely created for writing this blog)

Build your first Windows 8 app … in a day!

Martin Tirion — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:05:56 GMT

Maybe you want to build your own Windows 8 app … but you’re not a developer. But you have an interesting hobby you want to share information on. Or you know interesting websites containing useful information. De App-in-a-snap template can help you out!

App-in-a-snap is a template that helps you in a few easy steps to create your own news reader app. The templates uses RSS feeds to do this. Here is an example of an RSS feed (for this blog): http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/ux/rss.aspx. A link to an RSS feed is often indicated on websites with this icon: . It is very easy to add one or more feeds to the template.

Interested? Do you want to try it? Go to http://aka.ms/appinasnap. It contains the template and the documentation (in Dutch) to help you build your own Windows 8 app. Let me know if publish something

I will do some more posts to take the template to the next level.

SMART Room System™ for Microsoft® Lync®

William van Male — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:24:00 GMT

Transform your meetings with the SMART Room System for Microsoft Lync. An integrated, turn-key hardware solution, it combines SMART’s industry leading interactive displays with Microsoft Lync to enable rich audio, video and data collaboration. This helps engage every meeting participant by enabling them to contribute ideas in more creative ways and provides them with a more inspired way to collaborate.

LINK naar website of de video

Office 365 login

Freddy Buskens — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:49:00 GMT

Bent u hier aangekomen omdat u wilt inloggen in Office 365? Klik dan op www.office365login.com . Alle Office 365 gebruikers hebben sinds deze maand (april 2013) een nieuw login scherm gekregen. Nieuw scherm: Oud scherm: De nieuwe interface is natuurlijk een stuk vrolijker, maar de voornaamste wijziging is de compatibility met verschillende devices. De interface ziet er op een SmartPhone of Tablet namelijk ook goed uit. Bovendien is het login process vereenvoudigd voor Office 365 gebruikers die inloggen...(read more)

TechNet Masterclass - SharePoint 2013 voor architecten

Eric Dubbelaar — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:53:51 GMT

Eén van de meest succesvolle masterclasses van de Microsoft University is nu geupdate: SharePoint 2013 voor Architecten. In twee dagen helemaal thuis in de nieuwe SharePoint.

Programma in hoofdlijnen:

Dag 1

Practical SharePoint architectures
Upgrading to SharePoint 2013
Enterprise Content Management
SharePoint Search

Dag 2

Web Content Management
SharePoint Apps
Social Collaboration
Workflow

22 en 23 mei a.s. is de eerst volgende delivery van deze masterclass. Zie voor meer informatie en inschrijflink: http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/evenementen/event.aspx?eventid=266&date=20100921.