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Create .cab file to install your OWA certificate on Windows Mobile device

If your company uses exchange Activesync to allow users to synchronize their email boxes with Windows Mobile or Activesync enabled OSs.

Some companies might use its own SSL certificate that is signed by internal CA so when mobile device user tries to configure his mobile to sync, he will need to install the root cert for his server to be able to establish the SSL channel.

In this article I have shown the instruction on how to create cab file(Windows mobile setup file) so users can download prior to configure their mobiles.

This steps requires two tools

sslchainsaver mail.company.com

It will also create one folder contain the certificates named mail.company.com and two files called

MAIL.Company.COM.wm5.xml

MAIL.Company.COM.wm6.xml

you can view the contents of the file by typing

type MAIL.Company.COM.wm6.xml

to create the cab file rename the mail.company.com.wm6.xml to _setup.xml

use the command makecab to create the cab file

makecab _setup.xml companycert.cab

then copy companycert.cab file to your Windows Mobile device and run the file.

To download makecab click on this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310618

To download Windows Mobile SSLChainSaver http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6123EB55-6590-4643-8E7F-11C177104DE2&displaylang=en

Installing SQL Cluster in Windows 2008

Installation of Cluster service consists of certain stages

1- Configure Hardware(shared Storage, Heartbeat NIC)

2- Install Failover Cluster feature

3- Create Cluster Group

 

4- Add shared Hardware

5- Install SQL 2005

6- Install SQL 2005 SP2

Here below some details.

 

Install Failover Cluster through Add features

 

Create Cluster Group

Add shared disk to the cluster group

Add more cluster nodes

Start Installing SQL Server 2005 on one of the cluster nodes.

 

The installation of SQL server 2005 is now completed.

if you look at the Failover Cluster Management Snap-in, you will find that the Cluster resources( Name of the cluster and IP and the SQL services) one of these services is failed to start, this  is because compatibility issues with Windows Server 2008; the minimum supported version is SQL Server 2005 SP2, once it get installed everything will work fine.

Installing SQL 2005 on Windows 2008 Cluster

The error above because of compatibility with SQL 2005 so you have to install SQL 2005 SP1 minimum

Uninstall Products using VB script

The below lines are for VBS script file you can use to uninstall

1	strComputer = "."
2	Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
3	& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
4	Set colSoftware = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
5	("SELECT * FROM Win32_Product WHERE Vendor = 'Hewlett-Packard'")
6	For Each objSoftware in colSoftware
7	objSoftware.Uninstall()
8	Next

in Line 1 you define variable called strComputer which is the computer you would like to execute this script against, in this case the value is “.” so this means localhost (locally)

Line 2 is to define Variable named objWMIService and to call WMI functions which is defined by winmgmts:

in the background the system loads Wbemdisp.dll which contains the Scripting Library functions

In VBS script they always split the functions in multiple lines although it can be used as one line, anyway

Line 3 which privilege level will be used in access the WMI

impersonationLevel=impersonate then the computer we are connecting to  which is strComputer  variable then the WMI class location "\root\cimv2”

Line 4 and 5 is one line but we use _ underscore to allow go to the next line (something like escape character) line 4 we define variable to contain the previously called data plus the function we are interested to call like query the WMI we use ExecQuery function. in line 5 we type our WMI QUERY Language where we select all columns available in class name win32_product and for not displaying all product we can filer the data by using  certain colmn value like name of the product or vendor

SELECT * FROM Win32_Product WHERE Vendor = 'Hewlett-Packard'

 

I have to sleep now

lets continue tomorrow

Upgrade from the Windows 7 beta to the Release Candidate

Source:http://windowsitpro.com/

Q. How do I upgrade from the Windows 7 beta to the Release Candidate?

A. There's no officially supported way to upgrade from the beta of Windows 7 (build 7000) to the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100). Microsoft developers wanted to focus on the common end user upgrade experience, which will be from Windows Vista to Windows 7, and didn't want to waste cycles on getting a perfect upgrade experience from a beta. It is also expected that there will be no direct upgrade from the Release Candidate to the final release.

There is, however, a way you can do an in-place upgrade. This method will probably also work for an upgrade from RC to final.

• Copy the contents of the Windows 7 RC to your local hard disk.
• Access the Source directory within the copied Windows 7 RC location.
• Open cversion.ini in Notepad.
• Change the MinClient value from 7100 to 7000, as shown here:

[HostBuild]

MinClient=7000

MinServer=7000

• Save the file.
• You'll now be able to perform an in-place upgrade from the beta to the RC.