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Building a new Lab around Windows server 2022 brings all the basics again , new vm’s new image of wim to vhd , sysprep what ever option you do to build a new lab. In this case I want to sysprep the VM this failed as Edge was not installed for all users. As it is a insider build this probably will be fixed in the next releases.
Running sysprep I got the Following Error.
SYSPRP Package Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Stable_86.0.622.38_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe was installed for a user, but not provisioned for all users. This package will not function properly in the sysprep image.
SYSPRP Package Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Stable_86.0.622.38_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe was installed for a user, but not provisioned for all users. This package will not function properly in the sysprep image.
2021-03-01 14:21:06, Error SYSPRP Failed to remove apps for the current user: 0x80073cf2.
2021-03-01 14:21:06, Error SYSPRP Exit code of RemoveAllApps thread was 0x3cf2.
2021-03-01 14:21:06, Error SYSPRP ActionPlatform::LaunchModule: Failure occurred while executing ‘SysprepGeneralizeValidate’ from C:\Windows\System32\AppxSysprep.dll; dwRet = 0x3cf2
2021-03-01 14:21:06, Error SYSPRP SysprepSession::Validate: Error in validating actions from C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\ActionFiles\Generalize.xml; dwRet = 0x3cf2
2021-03-01 14:21:06, Error SYSPRP RunPlatformActions:Failed while validating Sysprep session actions; dwRet = 0x3cf2
Uninstalling the MS Edge from the uninstall section
Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Stable_86.0.622.38_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe
It’s gone but the SysPrep still failed.
Ah it is a modern app So we need to remove this, listing all the Microsoft Apps.
Getting the Proper Package and remove this
Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Stable_86.0.622.38_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Powershell Command :
Remove-AppxPackage -Package Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Stable_86.0.622.38_neutral__8wekyb3d8bbwe
After This is removed I did a Reboot and Installed the MS Edge for all users and the sysprep Went fine.
Installing Edge.
#Create temp folder
New-Item -Path ‘C:\temp’ -ItemType Directory -Force | Out-Null
#Install Edge
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com/filestreamingservice/files/c39f1d27-cd11-495a-b638-eac3775b469d/MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi" -OutFile ‘c:\temp\MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi’
Invoke-Expression -Command ‘C:\temp\MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi /quiet /norestart’
My syspreped Machine. with edge
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What is the Journal app ? it is a Windows 10 app helping people who love to journal to evolve their ideas and express themselves quickly with the power of their digital pen.
Description
Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, is an app for Windows that invites people who love to journal to pick up their digital pen, express themselves quickly, and evolve their ideas. Of all the different methods of device interaction, digital ink is unique in the speed and degree of natural expression and in aiding memory. With Journal, disparate ideas can be connected, drawings can be sketched, annotations can be freely inserted, information can be located with search, and you can easily connect your ink across other apps to grow your best ideas. Journal provides an ink-first solution that delivers new AI, intuitive gestures, and connected experiences for Microsoft 365 for work and school (subscription required, sold separately) . It’s designed for people who thrive when writing out their ideas, notes, and sketches. The Microsoft Garage is an outlet for experimental projects for you to try. Learn more at https://garage.microsoft.com
Download the Journal tool from the Store
There is a quick introduction play guide.
Features
- An ink-first experience for those who write with a digital pen
- A page-based canvas for easy scrolling, optimized for tablet and 2-in-1 devices
- New intuitive Ink Gestures that don’t require mode switches
- Drag and drop your content between pages, or to your favorite applications
- Microsoft 365 Integration to access your Calendar for faster meeting notes (Subscription required, sold separately)
- Import and markup PDF documents and images
- Search using keywords or filters
What’s new in this version
Improved ability to open journals from Documents folders stored on networks – Fixed issue with sending email for M365 Work and School users – Improvements to Scratch Out – Improvements for signing in with Microsoft 365 Work or School account – General bug and performance tweaks with ink AI, undo, and opening/closing journals
Try it out https://aka.ms/TryJRNL
Learn more https://aka.ms/JRNLblog
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Dapr is an open source, portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge. Dapr embraces the diversity of all programming languages and developer frameworks and simplifies building applications.
Dapr building blocks
- Service Invocation – Resilient service-to-service invocation enables method calls, including retries, on remote services wherever they are running in the supported hosting environment.
- State management – With state management for key/value pairs, long running, highly available, stateful services can be easily written, alongside stateless services in the same application. The state store is pluggable and can include Azure Cosmos or Redis, with others such as AWS DynamoDB on the component roadmap.
- Publish and subscribe messaging between services – Publishing events and subscribing to topics between services enables event-driven architectures to simplify horizontal scalability and make them resilient to failure.
- Event driven resource bindings – Resource bindings and triggers build further on event-driven architectures for scale and resiliency by receiving and sending events to and from any external resources such as databases, queues, file systems, blob stores, webhooks, etc. For example, your code can be triggered by a message on an Azure EventHub service and write data to Azure CosmosDB.
- Virtual actors – A pattern for stateless and stateful objects that make concurrency simple with method and state encapsulation. Dapr provides many capabilities in its virtual actor runtime including concurrency, state, life-cycle management for actor activation/deactivation and timers and reminders to wake up actors.
- Distributed tracing between services – Easily diagnose and observe inter-service calls in production using the W3C Trace Context standard and push events to tracing and monitoring systems.
You can read more about Dapr at http://dapr.io, get started with code and samples at https://github.com/dapr/dapr and reach out on gitter.im/Dapr or Twitter @daprdev.
Getting started with Dapr is easy and you can start with a few steps described below
How to get up and running with Dapr in minutes
The following steps in this guide are:
- Install the Dapr CLI
- Initialize Dapr
- Use the Dapr API
- Configure a component
- Explore Dapr quickstarts
powershell -Command "iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dapr/cli/master/install/install.ps1 | iex"
Important is to close the powershell window and reopen this. Else the module won’t be active
type dapr
Open Powershell
type dapr
dapr
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____/ /___ _____ _____
/ __ / __ ‘/ __ \/ ___/
/ /_/ / /_/ / /_/ / /
\__,_/\__,_/ .___/_/
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A serverless runtime for hyperscale, distributed systems
Usage:
dapr [command]
Available Commands:
completion Generates shell completion scripts
components List all Dapr components
configurations List all Dapr configurations
dashboard Start Dapr dashboard
help Help about any command
init Setup dapr in Kubernetes or Standalone modes
invoke Invokes a Dapr app with an optional payload (deprecated, use invokePost)
invokeGet Issue HTTP GET to Dapr app
invokePost Issue HTTP POST to Dapr app with an optional payload
list List all Dapr instances
logs Gets Dapr sidecar logs for an app in Kubernetes
mtls Check if mTLS is enabled in a Kubernetes cluster
publish Publish an event to multiple consumers
run Launches Dapr and (optionally) your app side by side
status Shows the Dapr system services (control plane) health status.
stop Stops multiple running Dapr instances and their associated apps
uninstall Removes a Dapr installation
Flags:
-h, –help help for dapr
–version version for dapr
Use “dapr [command] –help” for more information about a command.
subcommand is required
dapr init
PS C:\Windows\system32> dapr init
Making the jump to hyperspace…
Downloading binaries and setting up components…
Unable to find image ‘openzipkin/zipkin:latest’ locally
latest: Pulling from openzipkin/zipkin
docker: no matching manifest for windows/amd64 10.0.17763 in the manifest list entries.
See ‘docker run –help’.
Quickstarts and Samples
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When Creating a new windows virtual desktop I noticed that the meta locations are also available in europe.
When creating a new WVD host pool you can select the Metadata location. this is a great option as many customers ask me why is this in a non europe location, and can this be changed.
Well there are now 2 europe locations
Creating a new Host pool
An overview from the Host pools and now also one in europe
Metadata will be stored in Azure geography associated with (Europe) West Europe
How ever not everything is updated yet
Source : Azure Products by Region | Microsoft Azure
Changing the Host pool location with the Update-azwvdhostpool is not possible
The –location option is not a valid option.
It is nice to see the meta data is stored in europe and with this Windows virtual desktop is getting better and better all the time.
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Sure, it’s not the most exciting aspect of an IT administrator’s job but having a reliable and secure backup and disaster recovery strategy could be the most important thing you do. I’m sure you’ve heard many data loss horror stories that have crippled organizations costing thousands, if not millions, of dollars. This free eBook from Altaro will make sure you’re not the next horror story victim.
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Part 1 and 2 are updated versions of previously released eBooks (Creating a Backup & Disaster Recovery Strategy and Backup Best Practices in Action) but Part 3 is a brand-new section on disaster recovery (Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Blueprint) that includes tons of valuable insights into the process of gathering organizational information required to build a DR plan and how to carry it out in practical terms.
One of the most useful features of The Backup Bible is the customizable templates and lists that enable the reader to put the theory into practice. These are found in the appendix but are linked in the text at the end of each relevant chapter. If you are going to read this book cover to cover it would be a good idea to fill out the templates and lists as you go through it, so by the time you’ve finished reading you’ll have a fully personalized backup action plan ready for you to carry out!
The Backup Bible Complete Edition also works as a great reference guide for all IT admins and anyone with an interest in protecting organizational data. And the best thing of all: it’s free!
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