With Microsoft Exchange 2010 new on the scene, some of our customers are asking about using Exchange 2010 with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Our lead network architect Neil Erickson breaks it down:
“Exchange 2010 released late last year, and functionality called WebDav was not included. This is what the email router had used to connect to either a forward mailbox or individual mailboxes depending on the configuration.
Exchange 2010 required the use of Exchange’s web services, and this was updated in the email router with Update Rollup 8. So, if any clients want to use Exchange 2010 they will need to apply this rollup to at least the email router.
Week 4 already. Just one week before VMware Partner Exchange kicks off in Las Vegas. I'll be around, but not for PEX we're doing VCDX panels. I guess this week was all about the NetApp/Cisco/VMware announcement. And for those who missed, be sure to read this article by Vaughn as it captures the essence of the announcement. Now without further ado; here's the top 5:
Luc Dekens – dvSwitch scripting – Part 6 – Private VLAN Another post in the dvSwitch series. This time I’ll tackle the creation and use of a private VLANs (PVLAN) on a dvSwitch.
For those that are not that familiar with PVLANs have a look at KB1010691, that article gives a good overview of the PVLAN concept. And there were several sessions during the last VMworld that talked about PVLANs. The most noteworthy being TA2525 VMware vSphere 4 Networking Deep Dive.
In short, PVLANs allows isolation for guests on a shared IP subnet.
Steve Chambers – Cisco UCS: different workload, different configuration, same blade. Simple. With Unified Fabric you have a drastically reduced amount of physical connections: instead, you run multiple workloads over the same bit of string and separate them using network and storage virtualization. On one 10GbE pipe you can run IP, NFS, iSCSI, FC. Remember those “which protocol is best?” arguments: consign them to the bin, you can now run whatever you want over Ethernet. Just tell a Service Profile what VLAN or VSAN to present to an OS, with a click of the mouse, and you’re done. No cabling or network card work required. Different workload, different network connections, same blade. Simple.
Eric Siebert – Lessons learned in a power outage Know your ESX command line, if your vCenter Server and other
workstations are not available you’ll need to start VM’s using the
command line. Even if your DNS server is on a local VM you won’t be
able to start it without the vSphere Client. Therefore you’ll have to
log into the ESX console and manually start it, if you don’t know the
command to do this that could be a problem. Keep a cheat sheet by your
hosts with the basic commands that you’ll need like vmware-cmd to get
things up and running using the console.
Rodney Haywood – Viewing the vCloud future In 2008 VMware were talking about "application workloads" and "vApps" which were essentially just containers for servers. The fear was the requirement to rewrite applications to be usable on the Cloud. I think many in the Infrastructure space (VMware's existing customer base) focused on this server focus. Yet there was the key phrase in the speech, the workloads of today and tomorrow. "How do I take my collection of infrastructure resources and increasingly see them as a single giant computer on which I can flexibly run both todays application workloads and tomorrows application loads." How could we forget Maritzs love for Ruby.
Nicholas Weaver – Look I'm A Tool! : vSphere Session Monitor 1.0 I bet at this point you are thinking: “Well Nick, that is cool and dandy but I can get that info from my vSphere client! Way to reinvent the wheel…”
Well… now for the best part. This is the real reason I wrote this little app. It all started with my senior engineer, Justin. He had a nasty habit of yelling out “What are you doing?” every time someone did something on a vCenter server. That got me thinking; “It would be cool if something popped up telling Justin someone logged in. And it would be even cooler if you didn’t have to have the vSphere Client running to do it.”
This movie explains the ARIS Solution for Process-Driven SAP Management from IDS Scheer. You will find more details here: www.aris.com SAP software helps enterprises to implement business processes. But how can companies ensure that the processes incorporated in the standard software properly reflect their corporate strategy? What is the best way to meet the requirements of the sales, marketing, procurement and production departments in your SAP system? ARIS Solution for Process-Driven SAP Management supports companies throughout the entire SAP lifecycle, from strategy and requirements analysis, through blueprinting to configuration, testing, training and rollout. Business processes are documented using ARIS for SAP and analyzed within the context of the SAP system environment. Taking a comprehensive, process-centric approach to SAP initiatives by using the ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) approach and procedural model, this solution helps analyze, define, validate and manage the business value of enterprise SOA technologies by SAP. ARIS Solution for Process-Driven SAP Management currently supports application scenarios for SAP implementation, SAP upgrade and enabling enterprise SOA.
DivX DivX® is a digital video format that offers a high-quality viewing experience on any device or platform — from your PC to your phone to your living room TV. Over 100 million devices that support DivX video have shipped worldwide from major manufactures, including DVD players, gaming consoles, mobile phones and more.
XviD XviD is a video codec for PC, whereas codec is an abbreviation for [co]der/[dec]oderhence describes a program to encode and decode digital video. The purpose of encoding video data is to reduce redundancies – that means to make it smaller for faster transmission over computer networks or for more efficient storage on computer disks.
2. What’s the difference between DivX and XviD?
DivX is a very well known video codec that is used in most video and audio recording nowadays. It has become popular, especially in ripping audio and video disc, due to its lossy MPEG-4 compression that allows it to save movies and songs in very small file sizes with very little noticeable loss of quality.
XviD, as you probably know, is just DivX written backwards. This was meant to poke fun at DivX which is the primary competitor of Xvid. Origin wise, Xvid was an offshoot of DivX’s attempt to provide an open source version of its software called OpenDivX.
3. Why do we need DivX/XviD movies? The DivX Video Codec is a popular video compression tool. With the help of this codec, you can significantly reduce the size of your video files without much impact on visual quality. Over the past few years, DivX has developed a complete DivX codec and DivX Media format (DMF) that supports DVD and VOB. This format features multiple audio tracks and video streams, subtitle tracks, chapter points, interactive video menus and other advanced characteristics. And that’s why movies in DivX format is getting more popular today.
4. How to play DivX/XviD videos on PC? With the VLC player, you can enjoy your DivX/XviD multimedia files quickly. The player directly supports the common video and audio you will find in DivX/XviD files, such as DivX/XviD video itself, AC3 audio and MP3 audio, all without the need for DirectShow filters or special codec to be installed. Download VLC Player
Part 2 How to play DivX/XviD movies on standalone DVD player?
The first thing you should do is to check to determine if your DVD player supports XviD and/or DivX® playback. If your DVD player supports XviD and/or DivX® playback then you simply need to burn the movie to a DVD and it should play right away. Watching a DivX/Xvid movie on your TV or on the go is easy with a DivX Certified® device. To make sure your device can play DivX video, look for the DivX logo on your product or in the product manual.
How to burn DivX/XviD movies to DVD Disc and play them on standalone DVD Player?
Step 1. Download and install a Video to DVD Burning Software. We recommend 3 popular DVD Maker software here. Wondershare Video to DVD Burner Microsoft Windows 7 DVD Maker (NOTE: Windows DVD Maker is included in Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Ultimate, find it in Start -> All Programs -> Windows DVD Maker.) Aimersoft DVD Creator (here I use Video to DVD Burner for example:) Step 2.Drag and drop the selected DivX/Xvid video to the storyboard below to organize a slideshow. Step 3. Edit DivX/Xvid videos and Customize DVD menu. Step 4. Burn DivX/XviD to DVD
Tips: You can burn DivX/XviD to DVD directly after you loaded DivX/XviD files.
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