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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Dieter Rauscher
MVP Forefront

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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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Need to Pass 70-653

So you have been looking at the new requirements from MS and realize you need to take and pass 70-653. Don’t panic my friend Bea the queen of IT Training, a.k.a. Beatrice Mulzer has just finished her MCTS EXAM 70-653 Primer, Configuring Windows...

Dernière opportunité de gagner un Windows 7 ultimate

Bonjour

Pour continuer de vous remercier pour votre fidélité, je vous offre de nouveau une nouvelle licence Windows 7 Ultimate.

Il suffit de répondre à ma question sur mon livre d’or : http://mtoo.net/livre/livredor.php.

Quelle est la seule ville au monde dans laquelle a été ouvert un Windows Café ?

Le premier à répondre gagne une version de Windows 7 Ultimate , le suivant des cadeaux surprise Microsoft.

Et pour tous les autres un grand merci pour votre fidélité, vos visites, et n’hésitez pas à me laisser un mot sur mon livre d’or.

Bonne chance !

lg[1]Laurent Gébeau

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Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1 Now Available

Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains significant fixes and improvements in publishing, SuperPreview, file management, extensibility, and other areas of the program. You can get a more complete description of SP1, including a list of issues that were fixed, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 976594: Description of the Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1. SP1 includes improvements developed as a result of user input from Microsoft Connect, such as support for custom Windows colors, improved text selection, and better performance.

Download Expression Web 3 SP1 here. [English]

Other languages:

German: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/F/8/7F85E5EB-800E-4284-AC4C-7A49FAC1315E/WebSP1_de.exe

French: http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/1/6/B16EDAD7-983F-415E-871D-E3A33C056411/WebSP1_fr.exe

Italy: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/0/8/608C8631-7DC8-4B10-848F-35B19F516F5C/WebSP1_it.exe

Spanish: http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/0/5/B05606F9-7888-4D51-A9E1-51D8020BA1EC/WebSP1_es.exe

Traditional Chinese http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/E/2/4E2EFB9E-2FB4-47CA-B2ED-7B7BDCC59E96/WebSP1_zh-Hant.exe

Simplified Chinese: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/F/B/2FB54FE1-A207-4AD2-82DB-D9FE8265F35F/WebSP1_zh-Hans.exe

Japanese: http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/E/F/3EFF5FF4-0E07-4F2F-84DB-384EEDC8AEEA/WebSP1_ja.exe

Korean: http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/4/2/C427C5B6-2CF5-402D-AC20-A5D16E8CC618/WebSP1_ko.exe

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