SCOM: Usando scripts PowerShell

No SCOM temos uma console chamada Operations Manager Command Shell, esta é uma console que trabalha com PowerShell, estendendo a console do Windows com cerca de 80 comando adicionais. Estes comandos servem para realizarmos algumas tarefas administrativas de forma automatizada e em grande escala. Após instalarmos o SCOM incluindo a console Command Shell podemos acessá-la através do menu Iniciar, entre as tarefas mais comuns temos:

 

 

Comandos PowerShell no SCOM

 

get-help

Acompanhado de outro comando trás a informações deste comando em sí.

get-managementPack

Utilizado para exportar Management Packs de diversas maneiras, facilitando este processo.

get-rule

Exibe informações sobre Management Packs relacionadas com as Rules e Monitors que possuir, por exemplo.

get-alert

Exibe informações sobre os alertas na console do SCOM, ajudando seu entendimento e atuação em larga escala.

 

Agora, indo um pouco mais além podemos aprender mais ainda sobre PowerShell com os links abaixo.

 

·         Using the Operations Manager Command Shell

·         Windows PowerShell Quick Reference

·         Windows PowerShell Graphical Help File

 

Obrigado pela leitura e até a próxima publicação,

Abraços.

 

Cleber Marques

Microsoft MVP & MCT | Charter Member: SCVMM & MDOP
Projeto MOF Brasil: Simplificando o Gerenciamento de Serviços de TI
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No excuse anymore

So at the office I've been doing a dry run of the migration and the resulting migrated SBS 2008 is sitting as two vhd files on a HyperV server.  So I went to Office Depot, bought a small usb powered 500 gig drive, turned off the SBS 2008 running in HyperV, copied it to the hard drive.  Brought it home, connected it to the HyperV at home, browsing to the external usb drive locations for the hard drives.  I then booted the box.  Mind you the box at the office has different nics, different hardware but no bsod was seen.  Now think about this.  Next time you need to test patches, think how easy it is to make a copy of that production server and test ahead of time.

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So how fast are you?

So tonight I'm taking my sister's "baby laptop", the old Travelmate C110 (a match of what I have) and moving it from an older slower harddrive up to a 7200 rpm drive.

While I can't justify the pricetag of a solid state drive, I can bump up a drive to a faster speed.

http://www.apricorn.com/product_detail.php?type=family&id=41 The Apricorn kit is a very easy way to do it as well.  And then the bonus when you are done is you get a very nice caddy for your old hard drive to be put into and now have a spare external drive.  I picked up to 500 gig external usb powered drives at Office Depot today, and was surprised at some of the slower speeds of drives I saw offered in SATA drives.  5900 RPM was the fastest SATA drives I saw at Office Depot.  Granted this was office depot... not Frys or some other uber computer store, but I wasn't about to get out on the road and fight though the crowds to get to Best Buy which is about the only other major computer store we got in Fresburg (yeah I know, we live in the hood, what can I say).

So what speeds are you putting in your systems? 

Are you picking solid state? 

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Sharepoint 2010 - Role Based Security - Still a thing of the future?

In my last post I talked about Visio 2010 and how we are seeing tools which can drive a lot of business value by representing data in intuitive ways through SharePoint. I raised the concern about once you see the data the next question is how does technology empower action. The answer involves several aspects and perhaps the most important one of which includes is role based security. The question comes down to this, if I want to share information with my boss and co-worker and give them the ability to perform different actions, how is this done using SharePoint?

It appears that the answer today for SharePoint 2010 is that role based security is still a weakness.

This provokes another question. Is it time for Microsoft to create a role based security model which is robust and can be leveraged to empower action oriented interactivity with the data and business process? The answer should be a sound barrier breaking "YES". Here is why.

We now have the pieces of the puzzle coming together to empower business users to not only see the information which is important to them but then take action on that information. Being able to trigger a SharePoint Workflow within the right security context should be a skill that is achievable for the average SharePoint user. Remember this SharePoint User is now not only consuming data but also re-purposing it for the use of others. Setting the conditions under which others in the organization might or might not be able to trigger a specific workflow should require skill and knowledge yet still be simple enough that a user could do it without being a developer. To do this a user would want to leverage be able to say anyone who works on my team can do a "follow up call" workflow but only my manager can "approve expenses" workflow. This is role based secuirty and is not present in Sahrepoint 2010.

And so SharePoint 2010 will lack the deep security model which is required to leverage the full power it offers to users.  The Achilles' Heel of developing a solution will be the need to create your own role based security model to supplement this weakness in SharePoint 2010. There maybe 3rd party products out there that help with this short coming.

Folks on the SharePoint team, please talk to the CRM team about their role based security. Although it is not the whole solution, it would be great to leverage a unified role based security model.

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Visio 2010 - One of Microsoft's Key Strategies - Model based programming for the masses

A few years ago Microsoft started talking about 'Model Based Programming' which would bring software development skills to the masses by making it easier to conceptualize program flows, decision paths and layout key functional areas while intuitively reflecting business processes. Visio 2010 is shining light on this important avant-garde vision. And it is doing it in a manner that seems so intuitive to regular folks that it is hard not to see the value.

Software developers and network admins were not the only users of Visio and as the Visio team looked at the other Personas, one can't help but deduce that the Visio team was among the first to see the power Model based design. In fact, one should have been able to predict that Visio would be the place where model based programming would first surface. I confess I didn't not see it. And so emerges another Microsoft product with ground breaking and important new features.

Still, I wonder if Microsoft understood Visio is the natural tool to put Model based programming in the hands of the masses. Looking around the help files, we can see that Visio can be used to create, import or export a Microsoft SharePoint Workflow which is the engine which puts Model based programming into effect.  Is it possible the team put these technologies together without understanding that they are the basis of Model Based programming? I believe, they understood perfectly well.

In fact if you look at the Visio Team blog, they talk about The Visio Graphics Service for SharePoint 2010. I recommend you spend some time on the blog since the Visio team is doing an exceptional job of laying out how this product is putting together a triple play of technologies that is sure to be a winner for business value.

A sample SharePoint / Visio mashup shows a Supply Chain Dashboard with real time data linked to the components of the supply chain.

So, the Visio team has shown how decisions are better informed by the data being represented graphically through SharePoint 2010 using the Visio Graphics Service, but I have yet to see how they have  built in the functionality to empower people to act on that data. This of course would be the ability to launch a workflow through a right click on the diagram which would leverage an underlying security model to empower certain actions based on roles. Too much to ask? Maybe so. Still, for those who know Dynamics CRM offers this type of functionality, seeing information is only half the battle but empowering action is were the battle is won.

As we look toward how the technology will impact business, I believe the impact will be impressive. The tools exist to give businesses tremendous value and once again Microsoft Partners will be essential in helping companies leverage the technology to maximum effect. I look forward to spending more time working with the new version of Visio 2010, and team thanks for a job well done.

 Jeff Loucks
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Why does my CSR need to be 2048 bit length?

Why does my CSR need to be 2048 bit length? - GoDaddy Help Center, Search the GoDaddy Knowledge Base:
http://help.godaddy.com/article/5619

From the "oh now I get it" category.  I kept seeing folks say that they had to rekey their certificates when asking for a new one, and when they did they had to ensure that in the wizard they pulled down the arrow in the key cert generation screen and specifically selected 2048 or higher.

Keep that in mind when you generate that key cert that you may/will need to request one with a higher bit length.

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SCVMM: Guia sobre funcionalidades e características

Com o lançamento do System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 algumas novas funcionalidades foram apresentadas como o Live Migration, Maintenance Mode, Quick Storage Migration e muito mais. Agora, em setembro de 2009, tivemos um lançamento de um ótimo documento para alinharmos todos estes assuntos referentes ao SCVMM, se chama SCVMM 2008 R2 Reviewers Guide, confira clicando aqui.

 

Obrigado pela leitura e até a próxima publicação,

Abraços.

 

Cleber Marques

Microsoft MVP & MCT | Charter Member: SCVMM & MDOP
Projeto MOF Brasil: Simplificando o Gerenciamento de Serviços de TI
Meu Blog | MOF.com.br | CleberMarques.com | CanalSystemCenter.com.br

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SCOM: Service Level Dashboard 2.0

A funcionalidade Service Level Monitoring é uma novidade no SCOM R2, através dela é possível acompanhar os dados de monitoração para controle de SLA, e ainda temos o Service Level Dashboard, um Solution Accelerator que estende esta forma de monitoração. Aproveitando que nesta semana estarei envolvido em um projeto para controle o SLA de duas soluções com o SCOM 2007 R2, resolvi recordar o conteúdo que eu havia desenvolvido na época do Tech-Ed Brasil 2009 e ainda oferecer 3 novos links com vídeos curtos em inglês sobre o tema.

 

·         Part 1: SLD overview

·         Part 2: How to install SLD

·         Part 3: How to configure SLD

 

Material que eu desenvolvi:

 

·         Apostila com passo a passo das demos (36 páginas)

·         Vídeo não narrado com passo a passo das demos (40 minutos)

 

Obrigado pela leitura e até a próxima publicação,

Abraços.

 

Cleber Marques

Microsoft MVP & MCT | Charter Member: SCVMM & MDOP
Projeto MOF Brasil: Simplificando o Gerenciamento de Serviços de TI
Meu Blog | MOF.com.br | CleberMarques.com | CanalSystemCenter.com.br

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Off-Topic: Guia Mangá de Bancos de Dados

Gosto de fazer comentários fora dos assuntos deste blog, infelizmente não sobra muito tempo para isso, mas aqui vale a pena uma observação.

 

Quando recebi o anúncio do livro Guia Mangá de Bancos de Dados pensei em qual seria o propósito desta idéias, li os comentários de algumas pessoas no link abaixo, mas não entendi o motivo pelo qual estas pessoas criticaram tanto esta publicação. No início da semana quando divulguei o livro internamente na empresa em que colaboro eu até brinquei falando que no mundo existem Nerds (no melhor sentido da palavra) para tudo, porém parando por aqui, pois acho que mesmo não encaixando assuntos antes relacionados (TI e Mangá) eu veja ao menos muita criatividade aqui. Neste final de semana eu fui até a Livraria Cultura, na Avenida Paulista, aqui em São Paulo, e pude dar uma olhada de perto neste livro e achei muito engraçado até, o autor está de parabéns. Inusitado, não fará de ninguém um DBA, mas será uma boa leitura descontraída, com certeza. Acompanhem clicando aqui.

 

Obrigado pela leitura e até a próxima publicação,

Abraços.

 

Cleber Marques

Microsoft MVP & MCT | Charter Member: SCVMM & MDOP
Projeto MOF Brasil: Simplificando o Gerenciamento de Serviços de TI
Meu Blog | MOF.com.br | CleberMarques.com | CanalSystemCenter.com.br

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ITIL: Versão 2 será descontinuada até 2011

O Office of Government Commerce (OGC), órgão mantenedor da ITIL, anunciou que a versão 2 dos exames de certificação será descontinuada até o dia 30 de junho de 2011. Mesmo para quem possui a ITILF v3 eu acho muito importante a certificação ITILF v2 no currículo, o conhecimento legado nunca foi tão utilizado no Brasil, e esta ainda é uma forma de validação no mercado. Para quem quiser saber mais detalhes leia o PDF abaixo:

·         OGC official announcement on the withdrawal of ITIL V2

 

Obrigado pela leitura e até a próxima publicação,

Abraços.

 

Cleber Marques

Microsoft MVP & MCT | Charter Member: SCVMM & MDOP
Projeto MOF Brasil: Simplificando o Gerenciamento de Serviços de TI
Meu Blog | MOF.com.br | CleberMarques.com | CanalSystemCenter.com.br

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SCCM: Instalação Zero Touch com o SCCM 2007

Em duas partes foi publicado um passo a passo no Edge da Microsoft Brasil para a implementação Zero Touch de sistemas operacionais com um conjunto de ferramentas, entre elas: MDT, AIK, WDS e SCCM 2007. Acessem nos links:

 

·          http://edge.technet.com/Media/Passo-a-passo-da-instalao-Zero-Touch-com-o-SCCM-2007-Parte-12/

·          http://edge.technet.com/Media/Passo-a-passo-da-instalao-Zero-Touch-com-o-SCCM-2007-Parte-22/

 

Obrigado pela leitura e até a próxima publicação,

Abraços.

 

Cleber Marques

Microsoft MVP & MCT | Charter Member: SCVMM & MDOP
Projeto MOF Brasil: Simplificando o Gerenciamento de Serviços de TI
Meu Blog | MOF.com.br | CleberMarques.com | CanalSystemCenter.com.br

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Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Update Rollup 1

Für Exchange Server 2007 mit Service Pack 2 gibt es ein erstes Update Rollup, in dem wieder einige Verbesserungen zusammengefasst wurden.

Bitte lest euch vor der Installation die Beschreibung im Blog und im KB-Artikel durch.

Weitere Informationen:

Viele Grüße
Dieter

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COLLADA reader available

The COLLADA reader for ModelConverterX, that I talked about in the previous post, will be available in the development release from tomorrow. The reader can read the geometries and materials used by the objects. At the moment transformations and animations are not yet supported. Below is another screenshot of the duck test object, now with the texture applied correctly.

I have tested it with some of the COLLADA sample objects and with some Sketchup output and the reader seems quite robust. But since this is just the first version of the COLLADA reader I would not be surprised if some user would find DAE file that can crash the tool. If you do find such issues please let me know.

 

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CodeCamp jQTouch session

If you are looking for the demo files from my CodeCamp presentation in the Netherlands you can download the notes here and the complete sample code here. No PowerPoint, after all this was a CodeCamp Smile

 

And when my ISP is fully operational again Sad the demo can be viewed online here.

 

Enjoy, I enjoyed organizing the CodeCamp and doing this presentation.

www.TheProblemSolver.nl
Wiki.WindowsWorkflowFoundation.eu

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COLLADA reader

Last I week I gave Google Sketchup another try and it seems a program you can learn to use quite quickly. If you compare it with GMax I think it has a learning curve that is much less steep. And I think if you model carefully in Sketchup you can make models with it that are suitable for real time rendering. So I think that for some people who just want to make some simple objects Sketchup might be a nice alternative.

But how to get those objects into FS? The free version of Sketchup only exports KMZ and DAE files. You could probably convert them to 3DS, import into GMax and then export, but I think all those extra steps make things too complicated. So I decided to work on a ModelConverterX feature that has been on my list for a while already, support for COLLADA DAE files.

I am not there yet, but I can now read the basic geometry from COLLADA files into ModelConverterX, below you see a screenshot where I loaded the COLLADA test duck. I still need to work on reading the materials used correctly and I guess some testing to see how robust the code is would be nice as well. But with a bit of luck I will have a beta of the COLLADA reader in the development release soon.

Unit Testing and Integration Testing in real projects

I am yet to find a proper sample on how to do realistic Test Driven Development (TDD) and how to write proper unit tests for complex business applications, that gives you enough confidence to stop doing manual tests anymore. Generally the samples show you how to test a Stack or a LinkedList, which is far simpler than testing a typical N-tier application, especially if you are using Entity Framework or Linq to SQL or some ORM in data access layer, and doing logging, validation, caching, error handling at middle tier. There are many articles, blog posts, video tutorials on how to write unit tests, which I believe are all very good starting points. But all these examples show you basic tests, not good enough to let your QA team go. So, let me try to show you some realistic unit and integration test examples which should help you write tests that gives you confidence and helps you gradually move towards TDD.  

I will show you tests done on my open source project Dropthings, which is a Web 2.0 AJAX portal built using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Linq to SQL, Dependency Injection using Unity, caching using Microsoft Enterprise Library, Velocity and so on. Basically all the hot techs you can grasp in one shot. The project is a typical N-tier application where there’s a web layer, a business layer and a data access layer. Writing unit tests, integration tests and load tests for this project was challenging, and thus interesting to share so that you can see how you can implement Unit Testing and Integration Testing in a real project and gradually get into Test Driven Development.

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Read this codeproject article of mine to learn how I did Integration Tests and Unit Tests using Behavior Driven Development approach:

Unit Testing and Integration Testing in business applications

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/testing/realtesting.aspx

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Windows 7 – Pet Hate #1

I’ve been using Windows 7 since January and as I’ve reported several times I have been really happy with it.  One source of irritation has arisen – the Action Center.

This is a reporting system for system issues such as security (firewall turned off) or maintenance (backups not configured).  This is fine but the thing takes over. Once it has popped its window up to say there is a problem it won’t go away. Not good.

I don’t mind been reminded of things but not to the point where I am then effectively stopped working because these windows are configured to always remain on top.

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Migration Step Thirty-Four: Running the SBSBPA

So one of the clean up things you need to do post install is this:

EVENT #    25091
EVENT LOG    Application
EVENT TYPE    Warning
OPCODE    Info
SOURCE    Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search
CATEGORY    Gatherer
EVENT ID    2436
COMPUTERNAME      SERVER
DATE / TIME      11/20/2009 11:20:30 PM
MESSAGE    The start address <sts3s://domain.com:987/contentdbid={b523f4fb-4a4a-4f37-98d3-855fda2496d1}> cannot be crawled.
Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server', Catalog 'Search'
Details:
Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has "Full Read" permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled. (0x80041205)

The Official SBS Blog : Event 2436 for SharePoint Services 3 Search:
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2009/05/07/event-2436-for-sharepoint-services-3-search.aspx

You'll see two fo these over and over and over again.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, it is recommended to manually register the URL in your system, or even disable the Loopback check feature. To register this URL, please use the following steps,

Note: We recommend that you use this method.

  1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0
  3. Right-click MSV1_0, point to New, and then click Multi-String Value.
  4. Type BackConnectionHostNames, and then press ENTER.
  5. Right-click BackConnectionHostNames, and then click Modify.
  6. In the Value data box, type the URL mentioned in the above warning event, and then click OK.
  7. Quit Registry Editor, and then restart the IIS service.

You can figure out how to fix this a couple of ways... first by seeing this and googling, or merely by running the www.sbsbpa.com that now points specifically how to fix this issue.  As you can see, post install I've got some clean up to do.

Go through them one by one, expanding them and see what they tell you to do.

1.  It tells me that Exchange 2007 is missing SP2.  Who cares at this point in time.  I'm waiting for the sbs specific wrapper that will install this on the box.  I'm not following a KB, I'm holding out until that installer wrapper is released.

2.  It told me to set up the backconnectionshost name just as I did above.  This will get rid of the SharePoint error.

3.  It tells me I forgot to remove the Backup User account.  I have to go into Active Directory Users and Computers and delete it there.

4.  It tells me to get rid of add-on congestion control by typing in netsh int tcp set global congestion=none in an elevated command windows.

5.  It reminds me that the built in admin group is missing the logon as a batch job user right.  (I accidentally got the wrong group with the logon as a batch right)

6.  It is reminding me that IE Enhanced security is disabled (I did it as I was building this test box as I couldn't get downloads from HP on there)

7.  It reminds me that the "Local activation permission to the IIS WAMREG Admin service is required  - fixed with KB920783

  1. Click Start, click Run, type dcomcnfg in the Open box, and then click OK.
  2. Expand Component Services, expand Computers, expand My Computer, and then click DCOM Config.
  3. Right-click IIS WAMREG admin Service, and then click Properties.
  4. Click the Security tab.
  5. Under Launch and Activation Permissions, click Edit.
  6. In the Launch Permission dialog box, click Add.
  7. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, type the domain user account that you specified as the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 service account, [it's network service for sbs] click Check Names, and then click OK.
  8. In the Permissions for UserName list, click to select the Allow check box that is next to Local Activation, and then click OK two times

8.  I'm warned about Windows Auto tuning level -- at an elevated command prompt type in netsh int tcp set global autotuning=disabled

9.  I'm warned about Receive side scaling -- at an elevated command prompt type in netsh int tcp set global rss=disabled

10.  I forgot to remove the STS_WPG group.... and remove the STS_worker and the IUSR_Domainname, and IWAM_Domainname user accounts.  Do not touch the IIS_WPG, but you can find the Iuser and Iwam with an _domainame and delete those.

11.  I need to get rid of task offload -- at an elevated command prompt type in netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabled

12.  And I forgot the Vista WMI filter on the box.

All of these clean up stuff I found out by merely running the www.sbsbpa.com on the system.  It's now specifically checking for post migration issues.  Cool huh!

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Coleções de ícones

Depois de alguns anos usando uma antiga coleção de ícones que eu tinha, concluí que o visual estava ultrapassado (ou então eu já estava cansado dele). Resolvi, então, ir atrás de novos ícones.

O primeiro lugar a que recorri, obviamente, foi o Google. Estava atrás de coleções gratuitas. Para a minha surpresa, não foi tão fácil achar algo bom. Eu até achei ícones muito bonitos, mas era um aqui e outro ali, sem identidade visual entre si. Como é importante os ícones de uma aplicação terem consistência, continuei procurando coleções.

Dentre as pagas, gostei destas três:

VirtualLNK: http://www.virtuallnk.com/
IconShock: http://www.iconshock.com/
IconExperience: http://www.iconexperience.com/

Optei pela Iconshock, em razão da quantidade. Embora custasse mais que a IconExperience, a quantidade de ícones era infinitamente maior (na prática não se mostrou tão maior assim, já que as imagens são um tanto repetitivas).

Embora tenha pago caro para resolver a necessidade, a compra não me atendeu por completo: os ícones pequenos (16x16) têm definição muito ruim. Como todas as coleções adotaram o estilo "Vista" de transparência, só os ícones grandes (32x32 ou mais) ficam realmente bons. Os de 24x24 até podem ser entendidos, com boa vontade, mas os de 16x16 não.

Este ano recebi por cortesia da Infragistics (um dos principais fabricantes de componentes para desenvolvimento .NET) seu novo produto: NetAdvantage Icons. Embora a Infragistics não tenha tradição em ícones, o produto deles é melhor que a maioria das tradicionais coleções existentes por aí. E, para completar, os ícones de 16x16 têm boa definição!

http://www.infragistics.com/dotnet/netadvantage/icons.aspx#Overview

Fica aí a sugestão para quem estiver procurando ícones (para comprar).  

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There is a marked difference..

Yesterday, I un-installed Microsoft Office 2007 from my Vista installation. Wow, did that take a time to complete or what. The purpose was to install the newly released Office 2010 Beta.

First attempt – please uninstall FrontPage 2003 and Access server database. More time passed.

Second attempt – it is installing but when will it finish?

It finally did finish, after which I had this unswerving desire to get back to Windows 7. After a few months of using Windows 7, notwithstanding aspects I do not overly like, Windows 7 booted quickly, responded quickly, and was/is a real pleasure. Users with fancy dual core and quad core machines may not notice so much of a difference, but for me and my trusty single core machine, Windows 7 has proved itself to be manna from the skies.

I can see very little reason why, on the right machine, users would not like Windows 7. It looks better and is more secure than XP, and it works faster than Vista. It will breathe new life into the PC market, and anybody who thinks that Mac and Ubuntu will grow in the future are barking up the wrong tree.

Windows 7 is no niche, cutesy or geeky operating system. It carries forward the versatility that Microsoft Windows has always had, and adds stability and speed to the equation. I have said in the not-so-distant past that I would not go back to XP. Well, apart from doing my bit for the Office 2010 Beta, I will not be returning to Vista as an everyday OS.

Footnote - To be honest, I could run the Office 2010 Beta in Windows 7 but would have to use the 32-bit variant because I also run FrontPage 2003, and I want to commit my time to the 64-bit Office 2010..

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