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Data Access Components 2.8
947062 The effects of delegation on connection pooling
946036 FIX: Error message when you run a maintenance plan that contains a Back Up Database task in SQL Server 2005: "Failed:(-1073548784) Executing the query 'BACKUP DATABASE"
946020 FIX: Error message when you run a complex query after you install Cumulative Update 3 or Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: "The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan"
948097 SCOM 2007: The CPU percentage Utilization monitors do not work on a Windows 2003 server.
948098 SCOM 2007: Gateway server is not working properly after installation.
948095 SCOM 2007 Exchange 2003 management pack: Exchange server cannot be detected as “back-end†server
948096 SCOM 2007: Exchange MP Reports - "Top 100" Returns 'Blank'
946434 When you select many items in any of the views, some action tasks that you typically expect may not be available in Operations Manager 2007
945598 How to determine the version of an installed 2007 Office language pack
947542 The Office Activation Assistant does not display a trial activation key when multiple 2007 Office system products are installed
948093 Unable to uninstall Internet Explorer 7 if Service Pack 2 is installed later on Windows Server 2003
946928 A new version of the Windows Update Agent is available
947471 Stop error message on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that has Symantec AntiVirus software installed: "Stop 0x0000007f"
947025 Support guidelines for migrating roaming user profiles data to Windows Vista or to Windows Server 2008
947477 The printer spooler may crash randomly on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that has an HP printer that is installed
919241 An update is available that lets the Chkdsk.exe tool compact the NTFS security descriptor stream in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
947369 Windows Server 2003 does not set the value of the icmp6_cksum field in the icmp6_hdr structure for ICMPv6 packets
941796 On a computer that is running an Itanium-based version of Windows Server 2003 and that has hotfix 929413 or hotfix 931308 applied, a 32-bit application may stop unexpectedly when the application raises an exception
944135 The recvfrom function stops responding when you use the sendto function in the IPv6 raw socket to send an ICMP packet and then use the recvfrom function to receive ICMP responses on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
Out of the blue some of my fellow MVPs and I got an email from Torsten who's also an SMS MVP asking if we'd read through the "Example Package Access Scenarios" section of the ConfigMgr documentation which I have to be honest I haven't.
Anyway in reading through it I was very surprised and pleased to see that I and some of the MVPs are mentioned:
"If Cliff tries to run the same advertisement with his account in corp.contoso.com, he does not need the Network Access Account. The Configuration Manager 2007 client components connect to SJC-DP1 using his own user account, and if there are actions that require elevation, the client connects using the Cliff-PC$ account."
Take a read through this and see how many other MVPs you can find mentioned.
Microsoft and Citrix expand alliance to deliver virtualisation solutions from desktops to datacentres ~ companies to deliver desktop virtualisation solutions and develop interoperability between Citrix XenServer and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft System Centre ~
For more than 18 years, Microsoft and Citrix have offered customers solutions to deliver Windows-based applications using Citrix Presentation Server™ running on Terminal Services. Now the companies plan to co-market new client computing offerings with the next generation of Citrix Presentation Server and the Citrix XenDesktop™ products, both based on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Optimised Desktop solutions, and managed by Microsoft System Centre. With these solutions, customers can build an array of flexible, low-cost and manageable client computing options for different types of enterprise users. Citrix Presentation Server along with Windows Server 2008 enables customers to deliver remote Windows-based applications at a low cost and with high performance for users. The next generation of Citrix Presentation Server will support and extend Windows Server 2008 and will help enable customers to use Windows Server 2008 for the remote Windows application execution workload.
Citrix XenDesktop is a complete desktop virtualisation system and, when combined with Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista Enterprise Centralised Desktop and System Centre, will help enable customers to deliver Windows-based desktops to virtually all task-based and knowledge-based workers at a low cost, and with high performance and enhanced security features. Citrix XenDesktop, planned for release in second quarter 2008, will support and extend Windows Server 2008 shortly after the availability of Hyper-V, a hypervisor-based virtualisation feature available as part of Windows Server 2008. The two companies will work together to co-market both of those solutions — Citrix Presentation Server and Citrix XenDesktop along with Windows Server 2008 and System Centre — to help customers meet the full spectrum of their Windows client computing needs. This expanded alliance also marks an initial step toward a longer-term plan to collaborate on future desktop virtualisation solutions.
“Citrix’s end-to-end virtualisation strategy includes a strong shared alliance with Microsoft and a commitment to continued innovation on the Windows platform,” said Mark Templeton, chief executive officer of Citrix Systems. “By leveraging our strength in desktop virtualisation in support of the Windows Server 2008 platform and System Centre, our development efforts enable businesses to deliver the right desktop experience to the right user at the right time for the increasingly diverse set of user needs. Customers should find that our virtualization products together provide one of the best ways to virtualise Windows apps, desktops and servers.”
Microsoft and Citrix also have extended their alliance for server virtualisation to enable IT departments to run heterogeneous hypervisor software. Citrix is developing a capability to enable the portability of virtual machines between the Xen hypervisor in Citrix XenServer™ and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. This capability will offer the companies’ joint customers a unified portfolio of virtual infrastructures that utilises both Hyper-V and the Xen hypervisor under a common System Centre management platform. This capability is scheduled to be available for beta evaluation in the second quarter of 2008.
Microsoft and Citrix will offer server virtualisation solutions with the combination of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, System Centre family of products and Citrix XenServer. Citrix will extend support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Centre in all its virtualisation products: XenDesktop, Presentation Server and XenServer. As part of this collaboration, a future version of System Centre Virtual Machine Manager will support managing Citrix XenServer, and Citrix plans to integrate Hyper-V with Citrix XenServer. This collaboration will enable customers to easily deploy and manage heterogeneous virtualisation environments built on both Citrix XenServer and Hyper-V. “For nearly two decades, Microsoft and Citrix have delivered significant value to customers, and we’re excited to expand our work around desktop and server virtualisation technologies,” said Bob Muglia, senior vice-president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. “Virtualisation enables our customers to deliver the right computing resources to their employees virtually anytime, anywhere, regardless of the situation, and helps create IT systems that are more efficient, more flexible and more cost-effective. Microsoft and Citrix are working together on product integration so that customers have access to comprehensive and flexible virtualisation solutions, all controlled by an integrated management platform.”
Today’s announcement is another milestone in the alliance between Citrix and Microsoft. Also recently, the two companies have collaborated on solutions designed to simplify branch office computing using Citrix WANScaler™ running on the Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server platforms. In the area of virtualisation software, the companies agreed in September 2007 to standardise the companies’ desktop and application virtualisation solutions on the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format as a common runtime environment. And in July 2006, before Citrix’s acquisition of XenSource, Microsoft and XenSource announced plans to provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008. About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organisations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion. About Microsoft Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Citrix®, Citrix Presentation Server™, Citrix XenDesktop™, Citrix XenServer™ and Citrix WANScaler™ are trademarks of Citrix Systems Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
946432 Registry entry names that contain a backslash character (\) are considered as part of the registry path when you use Registry probe
944837 Description of the Replay Markup Language (RML) Utilities for SQL Server
945899 FIX: Incorrect data is inserted into a table when you run a 32-bit SQL Server 2005 Integration Services package on a 64-bit computer
946420 The background color of a System Center Operations Manager 2007 report or of a System Center Essentials 2007 report may be black
946422 The reporting console stops responding when you generate a report in System Center Operations Manager 2007 or in System Center Essentials 2007
944693 Software updates cannot be deployed if the software update catalogs that are imported by System Center Updates Publisher 3.0 contain a /qn switch in the command line
946429 Error message when you try to view the AD Domains topology view in System Center Operations Manager 2007
946431 You do not see the additional alert criteria that you selected when you view the properties of a subscription in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007
946427 Even though you install the agent on the physical nodes of an SQL cluster, the cluster resource does not appear in the System Center Operations Manager 2007
946436 Error message when you use the Command Shell utility for the first time in System Center Operations Manager 2007: "Can not find Operations Manager Management Server name for current user"
943457 Some newly added access accounts of a Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 package may be missing on the child sites
941001 The "Intranet Sites: Include all local (intranet) sites not listed in other zones" policy setting does not function as expected in Internet Explorer 7
944520 After you reapply the Group Policy on a computer that has Internet Explorer 7 installed, a pop-up blocker exception site that you manually added is missing
945948 The server may not receive information from the network when you run the Configure Your Server Wizard on a Windows Server 2003-based computer or on a Windows Small Business Server 2003-based computer
946812 On a computer that is a Windows Server 2003 domain member, you may experience problems when the name of the local user account is the same as the domain name
945380 Error message in Windows XP SP2: “Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt. Windows\System32\Hal.dllâ€
945402 The Internet Explorer check box disappears from the Desktop Items dialog box after you install the QFE version of security update MS07-061 on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer
946534 Some operating system messages are incorrectly displayed in English on a localized version of Windows XP Service Pack 2c
945648 After you install security update 943460 on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer that has an Arabic MUI or a Hebrew MUI installed, English text may appear on the menu bars and on the Start menu
Internet Explorer 6.0
944397 The exception handler may not catch an exception in Internet Explorer 7 or in Internet Explorer 6 when you view a Web page that throws an exception from a function that is called through the expando property
946517 FIX: You may be unable to manage IIS 6.0 by using Server Manager if two threads access IIS 6.0 at the same time
945903 FIX: The replication latency is high when you use transactional replication in a multiple-instance failover cluster environment of SQL Server 2005
945443 FIX: A query takes longer to finish in SQL Server 2005 than in SQL Server 2000 when you open a fast forward-only cursor for the query
945442 FIX: You cannot cancel the query execution immediately if you open a fast forward-only cursor for the query in SQL Server 2005
945864 FIX: Error message when a trigger that uses a cursor is fired in SQL Server 2005: "Could not complete cursor operation because the set options have changed since the cursor was declared"
945902 FIX: Error message when you run a query that uses query notification in SQL Server 2005: "Process generated fatal exception c000001d EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION. SQL Server is terminating this process"
945916 FIX: Error messages when you delete some records of a table in a transaction or when you update some records of a table in a transaction in SQL Server 2005: "Msg 9002," "Msg 3314," and "Msg 9001"
946417 When you restart Root Management Server, the Health Service does not start in System Center Operations Manager 2007
946419 The System Center Operations Manager 2007 reporting feature and the System Center Essentials 2007 reporting feature do not work correctly when you configure SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to run in SharePoint integrated mode
945946 Event ID 2115 is logged, and a management server generates an "unable to write data to the Data Warehouse" alert in System Center Operations Manager 2007
946425 Error message when you try to remove the System Center Operations Manager 2007 database role: "Error 1324. The folder path 'Microsoft SQL Server' contains an invalid character"
946421 The Root Management Server encryption key is unavailable after you replace or reinstall the Root Management Server server in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007
945635 Systems Management Server 2003 clients cannot download a software package from a BITS-enabled Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 distribution point on a Windows Server 2008-based computer
944405 Error message when you try to rename a new subfolder in a shared folder on the network after you use the SMS 2003 OSD Feature Pack to deploy Windows Vista: "The folder does not exist"
947110 Detection and deployment guidance for the January 8, 2008 security release
946056 A Windows Server 2003-based computer responds slowly to RDP connections or to SMB connections that are made from a Windows Vista-based computer
947020 Event IDs 1481, 1173, and 1203 are logged in the Directory Services log on a Windows Server 2003-based domain controller
944505 DFS clients may access the DFS root server in the remote site even though the DFS root server in the local site is available in a Windows Server 2003-based domain
941644 MS08-001: Vulnerability in TCP/IP could allow remote code execution
946448 You cannot remove a persistent iSCSI target if Physical Address Extension (PAE) is enabled on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
943043 The Icacls.exe utility that is included with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 does not support the inheritance bit
938615 A Windows Server 2003 based-computer that is running the Cluster service may be unable to join a cluster after the computer is first restarted
943485 MS08-002: Vulnerability in LSASS could allow local elevation of privilege
937472 You cannot add a user account from a trusted Windows Server 2003 domain to the local Administrators group on the computer when you use an account of the trusted domain together with a smartcard
Looks like 1 of each this month both affecting Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-jan.mspx
The start of a New Year is an exciting time but I also have to admit to being a bit nervous to see if I'm re-awarded as an MVP. Well I got a wonderful present to start the New Year in my Inbox today:
"Dear Cliff Hobbs,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success every day. Your extraordinary efforts in Windows Server System - SMS technical communities during the past year are greatly appreciated. "
Now remember all of the MVPs are here to serve and help YOU the community get the most from Microsoft's various products so if you need something, if something is driving your nuts with a product, you love or loath something then get in touch and we'll pass it back to Microsoft who are always happy to receive feedback be it positive or otherwise.
So now on bended knee like Darth Vader in the Empire Strikes Back and talking to you the community "What is thy bidding my Master?"