WINDOWS 2008 R2 FAILOVER CLUSTER on VMWARE
TweetFor windows 2003 cluster, check my old tutorial on following link.
http://technochat.in/2008/11/configure-cluster-on-vmware-using-iscsi/
Windows 2008 R2 Cluster Requirements:
1. Two Systems with Same Hardware Configuration.
2. Two Network Card
3. Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition on both systems with same patch level.
4. Active Directory
5. Shared Storage( SAN or iSCSI)
6. Both servers should be the member of same domain.
7. We need a normal domain user id which will be the member of local administrators group on both servers.
LAB Environment:
1. We used Microsoft iSCSI Target on one of our Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise 64 Bit server. We had 400 GB free space on that server, so we download (following link) install Microsoft iSCSI Target.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=19867
2. We also installed Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise server on two virtual systems on VMWare ESXi Server.
3. Added Failover cluster features and enabled iSCSI Initiator on both virtual servers.
Configuration:
After installing we added virtual disk on MS iSCSI Target.
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Loading ...How to configure Home Folder with extra security
If you are having a domain controller, and decided to give a personal drive for all users, then home folder configuration is the best way to do it.
But if you want to make it secure for every users, then you have to configure something extra with ntfs security and share security.
Our current requirement as follows:
- Deploy home folder for 500+ users
- Make it secure, so that one user can not view others home folder from home share. Browse option should be disabled.
First option was easy and simple, but I have to think a lot on second option.
You can get the overview on how ntfs permission works on network share from following:
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USERS |
NTFS PERMISSION |
SHARE PERMISSION |
EFFECTIVE PERMISSION |
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USER A |
R |
R |
R |
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USER B |
F |
R |
R |
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USER C |
R |
F |
R |
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USER D |
F |
F |
F |
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USER E |
F |
N |
N |
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USER F |
N |
F |
N |
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...BAT/CMD Script Log Generator
BAT/CMD scripts are very much helpful to do a monotonous job automatically and sometimes the outputs of the batch script file are very much required. We can generate log file from batch file, but we can't get the 100% log within batch file, so I was looking for a tool which generate log files from a batch script. After a few search, finally I found a tiny utility called wtee.exe on wintee.
To use it properly, I have created a batch file with which u can execute any batch script, and after executing the batch file it will automatically archive the entire output log, also there is an option to send mail notification with the output file as mail attachment (optional). For sending mail notification I used blat.exe from www.blat.net.
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...AJAX Web Chat Server with Active Directory Authentication
Again, as per business requirement, we are looking for some free internal (LAN) chat solution. There are some free LAN chat tools available but most of them are failed to detect multiple VLAN, only working fine in single VLAN.
But we need something which can be implemented on more than 50 branches across India. So we are looking for a free chat server. There are some chat servers available, but none of them support Active Directory (LDAP) authentication.
Suddenly we found a solution, actually it's not a single solution, it a combine solution of PHPBB3 and AJAX Chat.
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Reset Password of a Remote RealVNC Server (Admin Tool)
In my office, our helpdesk engineers provide support to almost 1500 desktop, and all are in different locations, so we use free RealVNC server for remote support. Sometimes, our engineer's faces lots to issue regarding VNC server password, sometimes user might change the VNC password, or sometimes we change the password for some security reason. And to resolve this issue I have created a tool with which you can reset password on Remote RealVNC Server to your own system RealVNC server password.
What it actually do?
It's a tiny tool with which you can easily reset remote RealVNC server password to your local system RealVNC password, if somehow the default password not acceptable.
Requirement :
You need admin rights on remote system to execute it successfully or, if your account has Domain Admin rights, then you also can do the same.
Screen Shot:
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(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ...Shared TempDrive Cleanup Script – Automated
Sometimes it's not possible to remember a specific weekly job to perform. So if we can make it as scheduled job to do the same, it will be better. There will be not such risk. Just take my example, I have to clean our office common shared temporary folder on every Sunday, but I am not in office on Sunday. So, I have two options to do the same, first, I have to call our DCO Support and instruct them to get the job done, and if I go with this option there will be lots of dependencies, or else I have to create a script which will do the job automatically.
So I decided to go for second option. With second option I have to make sure following things should be perform.
- I just can't delete all files & folder from temp drive, coz there might came some requirement to recover files from last week temp drive(Yes, everyone aware of the temp drive policy). So, I have to copy all the content of the Temp Drive to a different location.
- I have to create a folder with date stamp, eg. Folder_date (tempbkp_23-09-2009). So, I have to create a specific date variable.
- After copy all content of the temp drive to other location, I have to give Everyone – Read only permission to that folder and then have to share that folder as well.
- Delete all files and folder from temp drive. Yea, as per my knowledge, there is no such command available on windows by which I can delete all files and folder from a specific folder or a specific map drive. (So…..time to think some alternatives)
- Now the critical part, on next scheduled date, this script will automatically delete last backup folder, and create a new folder for latest backup.
And finally I made it with considering all above requirement without using any third part toolsJ. And as of now it's working properly, check out the script bellow.
412 views (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Logon as root/admin on Windows 7, Vista, XP, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora without any Password
Now any user can logon to windows or linux system with Administrator or Root privilege, no matter what kind of permission he/she have by simply using a bootable floppy or bootable CD. And it is possible by using Kon-Boot.
Kon-Boot is a prototype piece of software which allows to change contents of a linux kernel (and now Windows kernel also!!!) on the fly (while booting). In the current compilation state it allows to log into a linux system as 'root' user without typing the correct password or to elevate privileges from current user to root. For Windows systems it allows to enter any password protected profile without any knowledge of the password.
Kon-Boot for Windows enables logging in to any password protected machine profile without without any knowledge of the password. This tool changes the contents of Windows kernel while booting, everything is done virtually - without any interferences with physical system changes. So far following systems were tested to work correctly with Kon-Boot (however it's quite possible other versions of listed Windows systems may be suitable as well):
| Tested Windows versions |
| Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 (v.275) |
| Windows Vista Business SP0 |
| Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 |
| Windows Vista Ultimate SP0 |
| Windows Server 2003 Enterprise |
| Windows XP |
| Windows XP SP1 |
| Windows XP SP2 |
| Windows XP SP3 |
| Windows 7 |
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Automatic NT-Backup (System State Backup) with retention period and e-mail notification after complete.
A simple script for automatic System State backup where you can easily set backup retention period and it also send you an e-mail notification after completion. With this script you can also archive backup log and if you wish u can also set backup log retention period. It can also set backup files with date stamp.
For e.g., SysBackup_ComputerName_24-03-2009.bkf
You need two small utility,
- Blat.exe for sending mail, you can get details from here.
- Forfiles.exe for checking old files, you can get details from here.
Just download following zip file and extract its content to %windir%\ or %windir%\system32 folder.
System32.zip (75.5 KiB, 904 hits)
Mail Notification
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(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ...Remote Desktop Protocol 6.1 MSI Package for desktop deployment
Recently we implement TS 2008 on our site, and our entire client PC having Windows XP Service Pack 2. To access TS Application, we need to have RDP 6.1 installed on every system, but there is not update available for the same on WSUS.
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How it looks like?
Requirement:
Web Server    : IIS 6 / Apache.
Other : PHP 5 Installed on Web server.
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