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I finished watching the Nokia Lumia/Windows Phone 8 launch event. Two new phones hitting the market Lumia 920 and Lumia 820. My guess is the Lumia 920 will be for US/Europe region like the previous Lumia 900 and the Lumia 820 would be launched for the Asia Pacific region. Let me highlight some of the super-duper new features that Nokia has introduced in the new Lumia phones: Super Sensitive Touch: A nice demo on the super sensitive touch showcasing the phone works with your fingers as well as with skiing gloves. Haven't seen other touch phones that understand anything other than the finger touch or stylus. Wireless Charging: This the coolest thing I have seen in the last couple of years. Simply put your Lumia phone on a wide variety of sizes, shapes and colors charging dock and the phone will start charging. Isn't this super KOOL? The important question to be asked is how long does Wireless Charging take VS traditional charging. In-built Near Field Communication (NFC): T...

I recently purchased the Nokia Play 360 wireless/wired (3.5mm jack) Bluetooth speaker which produces enough sound to fill one room. Blue Color Rs. 8300/- from Nokia Concept Store in IndiraNagar, Bangalore, India My Review: Superb quality of sound especially on the low frequencies which is surprising for such a portable device. During my research phase, I saw a lot of videos which compared the Logitech BoomBox (Price Rs. 3900/-), Jambox (NA in India) and Bose SoundLink (Price Rs. 20,000/-). As we all know Bose is a different animal with different pricing all together. I did hear the demo of it at the Bose store but I still feel the Nokia’s low frequency is superb. As far as Battery backup is concern Nokia states 21 hours however, in real-life its 15-16 hours only. I tested the Nokia Play 360 against the following devices Bluetooth devices: Nokia Lumia 800, iPad 2, Funbook Pro, Old Nokia Phone and Sa,sung Galaxy S2 and all devices played beautiful music The Bluetooth range i...

  On a vanilla Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter edition I was installing the Hyper-V role and the installation process went successful without any errors or warnings. Though, I am aware there is a pre-requisite of the Intel-Virtualization Technology (VT) and Data Execution Prevention  (DEP) assuming both were enable in the BIOS. I started creating virtual machine in the Hyper-V Manager snap-in and went through the series of wizard. When I try to start the virtual machine I get the following error Issue: “The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running” Resolution: After a lot of troubleshooting figured out that Data Execution Prevention option in the BIOS was not enable. Now I am slightly surprised why did the Hyper-V role installation completed successfully isn’t VT and DEP the pre-requisite of  the hyper-v role??? Anyways issue got resolved the moment DEP was enable in the BIOS. If you like this post please leave your ...

  After a long time I was actually doing some hands-on and damn the first problem that I encounter is a Microsoft  Windows 2008 Server R2 design constraint for DNS Service. Issue: When you try to install Active Directory (AD) with integrated DNS on a high-end server (64 Cores, 500 GB+ RAM etc.). After installing the AD and when you reboot the server the DNS service doesn’t start automatically. You keep on getting the following errors when you try to start the service manually it just wont START Note: Active Directory works like a charm. However, the DNS service doesn’t start and we all know AD without DNS is like a big Disaster! System Event Log: (Event id 7023) Log Name:      System Source:        Service Control Manager Event ID:      7023 Level:         Error Description: The DNS Server service terminated with the following ...

I found this TechNet link that talks about all the latest Improvements in Windows Server 2012 . Link : http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh831769 Short Summary of things that I like personally: (Direct Hyperlinks) What's new in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in Windows Server 2012 includes new features that make it simpler and faster to deploy domain controllers (both on-premises and in the cloud), more flexible and easier to both audit and authorize access to files, and easier to perform administrative tasks at scale, either locally or remotely, through consistent graphical and scripted management experiences. What's New in Failover Clustering Failover clusters provide high availability and scalability to many server workloads. These include file share storage for server applications such as Hyper-V and Microsoft SQL Server, and server applications that run on physical servers or virtual machines. What’...

Microsoft & BangaloreITPro jointly have come up with this initiative where group leader veterans would be delivering sessions on Microsoft Hyper-V which will help the community members to prepare themselves to take up the Microsoft Virtualization exam 70-659. 15 members would be selected during the session and will be given free examination vouchers for 70-659 Windows 2008 R2 Server Virtualization Date: 2 nd June 2012 Time: 9.30AM to 6.00PM Venue: Microsoft MTC, Signature Building, Bangalore Agenda Time Speaker Topics 9.30AM – 10.00AM Registrations 10.00AM – 11.45AM Aresh Sarkari, Technical Architect at Unisys. Windows Server 2008 Virtualization - Part 1 (Hyper-V Fundamentals, Planning, Configurations & Management) 11.45AM – 12.00PM Tea Break 12.00PM - 01.30PM Gaurav Anand, Microsoft...

Recently, I attended a Citrix Executive Briefing at ITC Gardenia, Bangalore on 12 th April 2012 and learnt a couple of new things over and above our normal XenApp & XenDesktop which I would like to share as follows: XenApp Mobility Pack: This piece of software when installed on the XenApp server enhances the desktop or icons which are easy to touch and maneuver within the Windows 7 desktop. Like the traditional Windows Icons and menus it can really get difficult to click/touch on your tablet like devices that are 7” or 10” inches. See the below mentioned screenshot for the before and after experience. Before: (Screenshot of a Shared Desktop) After1: (With Mobility Pack) After2: (With Mobility Pack) Video: Demo of XenApp 6.5 Mobility Pack This mobility pack works in general for the Windows 7 OS and Office, Adobe applications etc. out of the box. It would be advisable to check, if it works on custom applications or/else developers would require to use the XenA...