We had a great show this Tuesday, the first session after the keynote was about Windows Server 2008 R2 and we had lot of stuff to show and to share with the audience, you can get the presentation here,

I promise I was going to drop the powershell scripts here, and here they are,

Remote Powershell and Best Practices Analyzer Example

TechNET Migration Portal CMDLets

TechNET did a great work to ease migration experience to Windows 2008 R2, go and take a look to the TechNET Migration Portal. During the demostration we migrated a File Server role from a Windows 2008 server to a Windows 2008 R2 server.

1. #En ambos servers
   
   Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.Migration
2. #Primero: Desde server origen
   
   Receive-SmigServerData
3. #2do: Desde Server destino
   
   Send-SmigServerData -ComputerName <DestinationServer> -SourcePath d:\users -DestinationPath d:\shares\users -Recurse -Include All -Force

Active Directory Recycle Bin

The credits for the “Enable AD Recycle Bin” part are for  Leandro Amore, I took the script from his blog, I know he wont be mad about it :).

1. #Enable AD recycle bin
   
   import-module activedirectory

   $forest=Get-ADForest -Current loggedonuser

   Set-ADForestMode -Identity $forest.name -ForestMode ‘windows2008r2forest’ -confirm:$false

   Enable-ADOptionalFeature -Identity ‘Recycle Bin Feature’ -Scope forest -Target $forest.name -confirm:$false

   Get-ADOptionalFeature -filter ‘name -eq "Recycle Bin Feature"’

2. #Mostrar computadoras en el recycle bin
   
   Get-ADObject -filter ‘isdeleted -eq $true -and name -ne "Deleted Objects"’ -includeDeletedObjects -property * | Select samAccountName,displayName,lastKnownParent | Out-GridView
3. #Restore de computadora una ves ubicada
   
   Get-ADObject -filter ’samAccountName -eq "TN-SCO1$"’ -includeDeletedObjects | Restore-ADObject

Active Directory Managed Accounts

Finally, we configured a service to run under the identity of a Managed Service account a cool new feature of AD DS on Windows Server 2008 R2.

1. #registrar MSA
   
   Import-Module ActiveDirectory

   New-ADServiceAccount -Name wwwTN-SCO1 -Enabled $true

   Add-ADComputerServiceAccount -Identity TN-SCO1 -ServiceAccount wwwTN-SCO1

2. #instalar MSA
   
   Install-ADServiceAccount -Identity wwwTN-SCO1

Hope you enjoy it!

RUN Reloaded 09 (the official Windows 7 Launch in AR) will happen next 24/25 November, hosted in the UADE University (Lima 717 - Aula Magna).

Registration is not open and there is room for 325 attendees, targeted for Microsoft customers. This event will go through the following technologies Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Expression 3, Silverlight 3, Sharepoint Server, Office 2010, Exchange Server 2010 and Visual Studio 2010.

I will be driving the following sessions

• Que hay de Nuevo en Windows Server 2008 R2 – Alberto Ortega
• Mejoras en Virtualizacion en Windows Server 2008 R2 – Martin Berra - Alberto Ortega- Leandro Amore

And you can apply on the following links…

IT Sessions (8.30 to 13hs, IT Guys wake-up earlier )
Day 1) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=87-89-49-55-52-F8-06-07-7D-2B-C0-13-F9-6E-04-68&Culture=es-AR
Day 2) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=87-89-49-55-52-F8-06-07-DB-F0-DE-BA-96-08-99-FD&Culture=es-AR

Dev Sessions (13.30hs to 18hs)
Day 1) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=87-89-49-55-52-F8-06-07-87-1C-0C-A6-7C-6E-3A-5D&Culture=es-AR
Day 2) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=87-89-49-55-52-F8-06-07-F7-F9-55-05-54-0A-29-EE&Culture=es-AR

CU!!

The Windows 7×7 campaign is already running, do not miss this opportunity to learn hot new topics about this OS in a 10 minutes screencast format, there are three published with me as a speaker :), enter here! http://www.microsoft.com/latam/windows/7×7/

• Gestión de drivers en Windows 7: http://www.mslatam.com/latam/mediacenter/default.aspx?v=44091f9f-6d9f-45c4-b28e-864e88f0f0cc
• Instalación rápida de Windows 7: http://www.mslatam.com/latam/mediacenter/default.aspx?v=87c813e3-9ef2-4cd6-9bd9-c270f5e321c7
• Mas productividad en el almacenamiento de información con BranchCache: http://www.mslatam.com/latam/mediacenter/default.aspx?v=d82c2973-2d25-4b4e-b7a1-70423c5674bb

Grabá un Screencast de 5 minutos para TechNET y participa!

¡Hay en juego USD1000 en American Express Travelers Cheques, 2 Netbooks Asus EEE y tu oportunidad para hacer famosa tu Demo en los Newsletters, Sitios Web y Eventos de Microsoft! La participación en este concurso supone la aceptación de Bases y Condiciones

Mas información: http://www.puertadeenlace.net/page/Demo.aspx

A new Windows Day - Online Event is coming the next week! The “TechNet side” on this online event will be focused on how the Microsoft Server suite helps in taking control of the desktop environment in this S+S era.

Be prepared for this event!

• Registration is open here: www.microsoft.com/latam/windowsday
• Access the event agenda here: http://www.microsoft.com/latam/windowsday/preshow.aspx
• Access the event blog here: http://windowsdayblog.net/, ITPros and devs can exchange event related comments or doubts to empower the communication with the event speakers
• Follow us on twitter! here: http://twitter.com/msdntechnet
• Access the event group on Facebook! (The official registration is ONLY though the event website)

Moreover on this windows day (03/03/2009) you are invited to join the “Ask the expert” session to talk about the sessions and use this space to talk about the challenges you are facing on your organization and take profit of the experts knowledge to address them, the sessions will occur on:

• Especial con Mark Russinovich (en Inglés, Level +300). 11⁰⁰hs (de Costa Rica)- 15⁰⁰hs (de Argentina)- 18⁰⁰hs (de España)
• MSDN-Chat1: 9⁰⁰hs (de Costa Rica)- 13⁰⁰hs (de Argentina)- 16⁰⁰hs (de España)
• MSDN-Chat2: 14⁰⁰hs (de Costa Rica) -18⁰⁰hs (de Argentina)- 21⁰⁰hs (de España)
• TechNet-Chat1: 9⁰⁰hs (de Costa Rica)- 13⁰⁰hs (de Argentina)- 16⁰⁰hs (de España)
• Technet-Chat2: 14⁰⁰hs (de Costa Rica) -18⁰⁰hs (de Argentina)- 21⁰⁰hs (de España)

We will have an unique opportunity to discuss technical matters with Mark Russinovich. Mark is a distinguished software engineer and author who works at Microsoft as a technical fellow and a regular contributor to the technet magazine, learn more about him on his blog: http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/

Don’t miss this opportunity, stay tuned, learn and improve!! I will drive a TechNet session on this Windows Day together with Martin Berra about System Center to take control of your desktop. After the event I will share resources related to this session

This Saturday 4th-Oct on the UAI (San Juan 983), myself and many other Southworks team mates will be present at this year edition of Microsoft CodeCamp

We will offer a track in the morning at 11:15 dedicated to IIS7, named IIS7 4×4 with Horacio Gonzales,

IIS7 4×4
Como configurar un IIS todo terreno, PHP, ASP, ASP.net, etc, como tunear IIS para ajustarlo de acuerdo a la aplicación a hostear, cuales son las diferentes opciones según el caso, Entendiendo CGI, Fast-CGI e ISAPI y cual es mejor según el caso.
Oradores: Alberto Ortega Y Horacio Gonzalez

Later on at 16:15 in the afternoon together with crazy Ezequiel Jadib we will talk about Heterogeneous Application Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager. He will 1st add specific WMI counter to a running application so me (a lazy IT Pro) can guarantee application availability and performance leveraging Operations Manager features for in-house application monitoring.

Monitoreo de aplicaciones heterogéneas
Como utilizar las herramientas que nos brinda System Center para monitorear aplicaciones desarrolladas in-house, como proporcionar a help desk de información necesaria para diagnosticar rápidamente que componente de la aplicación no se comporta como se espera.
Orador: Alberto Ortega Y Ezequiel Jadib

If you are wondering which others sessions to attend, let me recommend what other Southworks team mates will we exposing

Our flexible Johnny Halife and wonder boy Pablo Damiani will be showing a really flashy demo on Microsoft SQL Server Data Platform, we developed this demo for the TechEd keynote this year. Now you now it is worth

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 “Introducción a “Microsoft SQL Server Data Platforma”
Los tiempos están cambiando, las personas cada vez tiene más información y la problemática ahora esta puesta en entender como, donde y cuando guardamos nuestra información. Tenemos muchos dispositivos y muchos escenarios SQL Server tiene una alternativa para cada uno. Conoce lo que la plataforma de SQL Server 2008 tiene para ofrecer y las soluciones de arquitectura de datos más avanzandas.
Orador: Johnny Halife Y Pablo Damiani

Our Jedi Master Matias Woloski will be sharing worthy experience about Performance & Load Testing with  the PerfBoy Federico Boerr. You need to hear what this guys has to say about this dark science known as Performance Testing:

HowTo: Performance y load testing
Durante la exposición, se presentará una aplicación de ejemplo sobre la cual se llevarán a cabo pruebas performance y carga. Los siguientes conceptos serán tratados durante las pruebas: Definición de diferentes tipos de testing (perf, load, stress). Definición de objetivos de las pruebas, patrones de carga en las pruebas de performance. Detección de cuellos de botella (disco y procesador en éste caso) y detección de memory leaks.
Oradores: Matias Woloski Y Federico Boerr

Finally out IT ranger Augusto Alvarez will be exposing an ITPro view of IIS7 dealing with an Heterogenous environment, ideal for an Apache fan who want to know what’s there in IIS7 for him.

Windows Server 2008 + IIS 7
Como interoperar con Linux y Apache
Orador: Augusto Alvarez

Hope to see you there!

Next week Southworks SRL will take part of the SMSE (Systems Management Server Enterprise) event series on Microsoft Argentina, targeted for MS EPG customers. From Southworks we will be involved as expert in the System Center family Solutions. I will be a speaker on sessions about: System Center Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System Center Data Protection Manager and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V sharing the stage with the great Alejandro Ponicke and Leandro Sgallari the magician

Sessions Details

The series will be:

• SMSE Live Day 1: Wednesday 27-Aug (9-13 Hs): Live Event – Clients by invitation only.
• SMSE Live Day 2: Thursday 28-Aug (9-13 Hs): Live Event – Clients by invitation only.
• SMSE WC Day 1: Thursday 28-Aug (14:30-16 Hs): Public webcast
  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032383808&EventCategory=4&culture=es-AR&CountryCode=AR
• SMSE WC Day 1: Friday 29-Aug (14:30-16 Hs): Public webcast
  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032383810&EventCategory=4&culture=es-AR&CountryCode=AR

The outline for the Live sessions is (still developing on our UNMG network!):

• SMSE Live Day 1
  • SCVMM: Platform showcase | Intro | Snapshots | Live Migration
  • SCOM: Intro | SUSE Monitoring | Service Level Dashboard | Custom MP
  • SCCM: Intro | Win2k8/Vista Mgmt | Asset Intelligence | Update Mgmt
  • SCDPM: Intro | DB recovery | End User File recovery
• SMSE Live Day 2
  
  • Intel: VPro (By Gabriela Gallardo, Intel)
  • SCVMM: Live Migration Drill-Down | Self Service Portal
  • SCCM + SCOM: Control Panel Advertisements | SCCM Monitoring | Desired Configuration Management | Internet based clients
  • SCDPM + SCCM + SCOM: VM backup | DPM Reporting | DPM Health with Ops Mgr | SCCM Recovery from DPM triggered by Ops Mgr

The agenda for the Webcasts sessions will be a sub-set of the above focused on SCVMM 2008 Beta and Hyper-V. Subscribe today using the above links so you will have a reminder on your calendar!

SMSE is a licensing model developed this year by Microsoft to encourage the adoption of System Center products on the Enterprise.

This April 29th I will be part of the Online Event launching Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. My track will be about Windows Server 2008 and the Web Server Role, going though the top features of IIS7 from the Server Administrator point of view.

You can (and should ) register following: http://www.microsoft.com/latam/lanzamientoEdicionEspecial2008/

This online event will be fully powered by a Silverlight engine:

See you!

This September 20th on Pazeo La Plaza you can enjoy another MS MSDN & Technet Briefing. This briefing will be around Windows Longhorn Server AD and IIS 7.

My slot will be focused on IIS 7 management and a live migration from and PHP website hosted on Open Suse 10.2, together with Maximo Naccarato we will provide an in-depth look of possible migration paths.

You can register and attend by visiting the following website: http://www.microsoft.com/argentina/briefing2007/

The MOM Conference went great yesterday! Thanks to all attendees who became interested in monitoring Active Directory using MOM 2005. We gave a MOM overview and talked about the ADMP (Active Directory Management Pack) configuration.

Here you can get the whole slides to see what was all about.