Jan 07

Display / Export Wlan Profiles in Windows 7/8/10/11

To display all wireless profiles on your windows start a dos-prompt an type the following command:

netsh wlan show profile

To export/backup all profiles:

create a backup folder

md c:\profiles

netsh wlan export profile folder=c:profiles

(This will export all profiles in separate .xml files)

To export specific profiles add name=”profilename”

netsh wlan export profile name=”profilename” folder=c:\profiles

To export the keys in clear text add key=clear

netsh wlan export profile folder=c:\profiles key=clear

To import the xml file to another system (works only if exported with key=clear)

netsh wlan add profile filename=”c:\profilesprofilename.xml’

Jan 07

Windows 8 Shutdown / Turn Off

By default shutting down windows 8 will log you off and partially hibernate your os to make faster start-ups possible, on some systems this will cause the standby light to stay turned on when the system is down.

To completely turn off your pc instead, the easiest way is:

on the keyboard type windows + I (to get to the settings in the charms bar)

select the power icon which gives you the sleep/shutdown/restart options

select shutdown while pressing the shift button.

keep in mind, start-up time of the machine will be a bit longer due to the complete startup.

Dec 21

Upcoming MS Live meetings

 

Upcoming TechNet
Webcasts

 

08

Stress testing using SQLIOSIM and SQLIO

REGISTER

JAN

2013

Timing 10:00 – 11:30

Audience IT professionals

Type Live Webcast

Language English

Abstract

Very often both SQLIOSIM and SQLIO are used together for
stress testing on I/O level prior to the installation of SQL Server. In
this session we will explore the capabilities of both tools and why you
should perform this kind of stress testing.

Speaker

Steve Verschaeve

08

Drop the pressure on your production server
move Read-Only Workloads to Secondary Replicas

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JAN

2013

Timing 14:00 – 15:30

Audience IT professionals

Type Live Webcast


Language
English

Abstract

In this session I will show you how to configure AlwaysOn
Availability Groups for offloading reporting workload to a secondary
replica. I will also explain the factors that can affect the high
availability, latency and the performance of your reporting workload.

Speaker

Pieter Vanhove

 

10

DAX (Data Analysis eXpressions) from Zero to
Hero

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JAN

2013

Timing 10:00 – 11:30

Audience IT professionals

Type Live Webcast


Language
English

Abstract

DAX (Data Analysis eXpressions) was introduced with the
first release of PowerPivot back in 2010.  DAX was initially an
expression language used for writing calculated columns and measures in
PowerPivot. Over the years DAX has evolved into a full blown query
language that you can use to query Analysis Services Tabular
models. 

In this session Frederik will give you an end to overview of
the possibilities and power of DAX.

 

Speaker

Frederik Vandeputte

 

15

What’s new in Exchange 2013?

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JAN

2013

Timing 10:00
– 11:30

Audience IT professionals

Type Live Webcast


Language
English

Abstract

It’s impossible summarize everything that’s new in Exchange
2013 into one hour and a half, yet this session will provide with a good
understanding of what’s new in the latest version of Exchange. We will be
talking about many things including the new architecture, high
availability and new features. A must for everyone who hasn’t been able
to get up to speed yet!

 

Speaker

Michael Van Horenbeeck

15

Exchange 2013 ABC’s: Architecture, Best
Practices and Client Access

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JAN

2013

Timing 14:00 – 15:30

Audience IT professionals

Type Live Webcast

Language English

Abstract

This session is packed with all there is to know to get
started with Exchange 2013! See how the architecture evolved and learn
how to deploy Exchange 2013 in coexistence with legacy version based on
real-life experience and examples.

 

Speaker

Michael Van Horenbeeck

 

22

How will Office 365 provide me with tools to
protect my data?

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JAN

2013

Timing 14:00 – 15:30

  Audience IT professionals

       Type Live
Webcast

        Language English

Abstract

Is office 365 ready for a data driven world? How will
Office 365 provide me with tools to protect my data? Can I be sure that
my data is compliant to my business rules ? Exchange, SharePoint, Lync,
working together to provide us with a secure data in a compliancy driven
organization …

 

Speaker

Jethro Seghers

 

05

SCCM 2012 SP1 and the new way handling
Software Updates explained

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FEB

2013

Timing 10:00 – 11:30

  Audience
IT
professionals


Type Live Webcast


Language English

Abstract

Patch deployment has become a mission critical function of
Configuration Manager. Are you still doing patching like it was in
SMS2003 / CM07. Are you using System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP) 2011
by any chanche ?Attend this session to discover how you should do patch
management.

 

Speaker

Kenny Buntinx

Dec 07

Windows 8/RT Session Slideshow

Windows8&RT (pdf)

Dec 07

Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcut-Keys Sheet

A list of shortcut-keys to keep a lot of actions only a key-combination away.

Download your own copy here (pdf):

WinKeyShortcuts8

Dec 06

Wsus 3.0 SP2 Update to Service Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012

This update lets servers that are running Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP2 provide updates to computers that are running Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2734608

Dec 04

Windows 2012 Server Essentials and Office 365

Nice post on how to configure Server Essentials 2012 and office 365 by Jethro Seghers can be found on his blog:

http://www.j-solutions.be/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=68

 

Nov 22

New FREE Technine event @Telenet – Dec 4, 2012 – Register NOW

Technine 3rd event

The main purpose of this evening is to open up a discussion on the launch/influence of the new Microsoft product lines and how these affect the Small to Medium business. During the event hands on demos will be given showing the latest developments and technologies and we will provide the audience a free guided tour through the Telenet facilities (thank you Telenet).

Please note: Registration through eventbride is required for practical purposes (cathering, security). Please follow this link  for registration – it is free!

  •  18h00-18h30: Reception with drink and sandwiches
  • 18h30-20h30 : Presentations and open discussion
  • 20h30-21h00 : Visit of Telenet data center. Drink and networking

don’t hesitate to invite your colleagues too !

location:
Telenet Mechelen
Liersesteenweg 4
2800 Mechelen
Subscribe by clicking Here

Oct 23

Register for the next IT Camps!

 

 

 

Microsoft offers free technical resources to help you be successful in today’s evolving IT environment. Don’t miss the opportunity to elevate your skills by learning more about Windows Server 2012 and Windows Azure through Microsoft’s free IT camps.

Upcoming (free) Windows Server 2012 IT Camps are bookable on:

  • November 6e from 9:00 till 17:00
  • November 7e from 9:30 till 15:00
  • November 7e from 16:00 till 22:00

More info available here: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/technet/itcamps/

Sep 22

setting up a virtual machine using azure

For those who don’t know already: these days you can setup your own personal virtual machine using the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform. As this Azure feature is fairly new many of us (including for me) I decided to give it a try and to explore the opportunities of what this platform can give.

Personally I was under the impression that Azure only offered a platform which you could use to host websites and certain applications. Obviously I was wrong. These days Azure provides you a platform which you can use to host websites, virtual machines, SQL databases, Storage, ….
More details of what Azure offers can be found at http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/overview/

Well I wanted to setup a virtual machine so I logged in on the http://www.windowsazure.com website using my Live ID. Please note that a Live ID is required in order to use the service. Once logged in some further steps are required if it’s the first time you are using the Azure service.

To complete the registration you are required to have a mobile phone and a valid credit card near you. Next step is to provide your (mobile) phone number. Microsoft requires this as they send you an account verification number for completing the account registration. I  provided my phone number and selected my country and went further with the registration process by pressing the arrow pointing to the right.

Shortly after going to the next step you will receive a text message with a code to verify the account. That code is required for continuing to the next step.

Next step is providing your credit card details. Once provided you can go to the next step.

5 - fill in credit card detailset voila! our Azure acount is ready for use! If all goes well next screen you’ll see is the  main welcome screen for Azure. Note that the website is shown in the language of your computer’s localization setting (Dutch – Belgium in my case).

 My next step was to create a “pay by use” subscription. As I want to create a VM which I intent to use for a very short time, I only want to pay for that VM the time that I’m using it. Creating a pay by use subscription can be done in your account centre (add subscription). Next I need to subscribe for the function “Virtual Machines”. This can be done in the account centre as well using the option “Example of functions”. (“Voorbeeld van functies” in dutch). Scroll down to “Virtual Machines” and press the button “Try it now”. Next select your “pay by use” subscription and confirm.

Once confirmed I was asked to use the preview version of the administration center of Azure, which I confirmed by pressing the green “Use the preview portal” button.

My portal (which can be accessed by going to https://manage.windowsazure.com) was ready to use, now I want to create my Virtual Machine. For that I pressed the + button and did a quick create of a virtual Machine. The only details I was asked to create the VM were: DNS name, image I wanted to use (selected Windows 2012), administrator password (password complexity is required!), size (for extra-small to extra large) and the location where I want to host this machine. I always think big so I selected Extra Large as size!

After a couple of minutes of provisioning my machine was ready to use. I clicked on the machine’s name and on the bottom of my screen I was presented a button for connecting to the machine. Pressing that button will download an RDP file which connects you to your VM by using the MS Remote Desktop Protocol. Note that no RDP Gateway is being used: it is connecting directly by 3389/tcp.

The provisioned virtual machine will be given a DNS name and external IP address and if you log on to your machine you will notice that your machine is having a private IP address which means that it is being NATed.

I need to admit that I’m really impressed by the ease and performance of the VM provisioning process within Azure. The complete process from subscribing to the Azure service until logging on to my virtual machine took around 15 minutes which is less than the time required to install your own machine. For those who are wondering what the pricing is for the pay by use subscription:

 

Last edited: 2012-09-22 – By Didier D’Joos