9/6/2009I've been refinding the script to hide everything (the first vesion still left a border around the page)... I'm sure there is some redundancy - such as hiding a smaller area that's already hidden within a larger area, but, I'll clean that up in time.
So, to make this work:
- From within SharePoint Designer, create a new ASPX page and make it look the way ou like (non-sharepoint-ish).
- Drop the master page on your ASPX page
- Save the page and get out of sharepoint designer
- Open your new page and add a Content Editor WebPart to it.
- Copy the following script and past it in the Source section of the CEWP. Make sure to make this web part hidden when you are done
- Save you changes
If all goes well, you now have a great looking page with all the power of sharepoint and it's webparts without the visable hassel of the master page (sharepoint-ish) look and feel...
Good luck! Ed
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</style> 8/13/2009The following script added to a content editor webpart will hide the entire top navigation of sharepoint.
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</style> 8/9/2009Hello fellow Kelty related family. Yes you are receiving an email from Ed Kelty in Phoenix because you are, in one way or another, related to me! I'm close to giving up on the website "The Families Web" since in reality no one really uses it. Maybe someday I'll find an easier way for everyone to use it, but for now it's just going to sit there.
But, it is still my continued hope and desire to figure out some way to help keep us all in contact with each other. This is a difficult task as families continue growing and spreading apart. So, you will occasionally receive an update like this in your email or cell phone. I've setup the alerting to be small enough to work as text messages, or very small emails for those out country with limited bandwidth. When you open the link the body of the message will appear with links and occasional thumb nail images. The only larger items will be if you click on a link.
Also, as I build the family photo and video archive, I ask you to send me what you have and help me document our history through pictures and videos. I'll be upgrading my server sometime before the end of this year, and for those of you that are a little "techy", I'll be moving to a virtualized 64bit server system with MS-SQL 2008 as the database backend and upsized disk space, from 1T to 6T of drive space. In other words, I'll have lots of space to store stuff online. Many thanks to Jeff, Tim & Susannah and Uncle Bill & Aunt Claudia for already sharing so many pictures with me to scan in (either in slide, negative or picture formats)!
I do have something all of you could help me with, and it's an easy one. I do not have most of my nephews and nieces email or text message addresses. Would you mind sending them to me at ed@thekeltys.com? That would be a good start. Who knows, some of them might want to help me with the website…
I hope you are all doing well and I would love to hear from everyone! Take care, Ed 7/19/2009Last week I had the opportunity to spend some time in Arkansas with my wife's grandmother "Meese" and her dad and his new wife, Dave and Jackie. This time I flew into the new Arkansas Northwest Regional Airport. The plane I was on only had three seats across and was so small I couldn't stand strait up! Here's a picture of what the walkway looked like. It was, at least, a jet :)
On the way up from Huston the plane had to go around some large clouds. They looked pretty cool so I took a few pictures with my phone…
 
The airport was very new and clean, but you could tell it was regional – when you got off the plane you ended up in a metal building with bare concrete floors that were semi-exposed to the outside. Well I guess everything has to start somewhere. I still remember getting on/off the planes at Phoenix Ski Harbor airport at Terminal #1, which is gone now. At that time they rolled the stairs up to the plane and you walked across the tarmac to get to the gate!
After landing I picked a rental car and drove to Lead Hill. It took about two and half hours to get to Meese's!
From here I had a really nice time hanging out and relaxing. Over the fourth of July Lead Hill put on some festivities at their local park. Clogging, singing, burgers and ice cream (churned by a John Deer tracker). Here are a few pictures of that day…
The rest of the time was spent hanging out with family and relaxing.
 
 
6/21/2009On Friday I had a really nice visit with my Dad. He seems to be doing really well. He told me that he is looking to do some volunteer work in his area. He said he was going to talk to VA and see if they needed anything. He should be hearing back this week. Even though it was in the nineties he was riding his motorcycle!
Later that day my nephew came into town for a Star Trek marathon (TNG Season 2). As far as I know he's the only other "Kelty" that's a Star Trek fan. From Friday night until Sunday afternoon I think we watched 14 episodes!
We did a lot of other things too. We took a trip to the vets office to check on their computer, stopped by Fry's electronics to pick up a couple of little things (plus a new game for his DS), and a stop by Home Depot. The first night we had Chinese food. He ordered Lemon chicken, which I've never had, and it was great! I might need to have that again.
He also helped me do some cleanup work in the garage. He's quite the assistant!
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I've continued to experiment with hyper-v and now the new ESXi 4.x. Thank goodness I'm not in a rush to make this migration! ESXi 4.0 still seemed to have the 2T volume limit which doesn't help me when I have 4.5T RAID-5 array. ESXi's memory management is better than Hyper-V but at least Microsoft supports drive volumes over 2T. I'm going to make a couple of posts to ESXi groups to make sure I'm not mistaken about the 2T limit, but if that's case, I'm stuck with Hyper-V and the memory restrictions. This will really limit how many guests I can support. I'm sure sometime in the next year MS will come up with another release to address these issues… 4/4/2009
As I’ve continued to test Windows 2008 standard and Hyper-V I’ve experimented, again, with backup strategies that a small business on a limited budget could support. The mythology I’ve been trying to stay in line with is the same that I’ve been using on the SBS2003 systems I’ve been supporting for about five year.
So the question is, how do I continue to leverage my set of external USB hard drives in support of backing up the system? As I noted in ESXi USB drives are not accessible to guest operating systems. The same I found is true with Hyper-V guest OS’s. But, the solution I came up with, and wish I could do in ESXi, uses the standard installation of Windows Server 2008 (not the core, but I’m going to experiment and see if I can do the following with a Core installation instead to save on memory usage):
- Setup the host NOS (Windows Server 2008 Standard)
- Add the roles Hyper-V and File Services
- Make sure your USB drives are attached and mapped to a specific drive letter
- Share your backup USB drives as a file service
- Setup your guest NOS (I’ll make step-by-step instructions on this when I decide on a final configuration)
- In the guest OS, using Windows Server Backup, setup a one time or backup schedule
o Part way through the steps you are prompted to select a local or network location for the backups. I used \\HostServer\USB_Backup_Drive
- Start your backup
I tested this process and was averaging 500MBps/Minute. This is the same speed I get when backing up directly to USB drives connected to the host. I assumed I’d get something similar since the network I’m using is all virtual anyway between the host and guest.
So now, over the next few weeks/months I’ll go through the process of finalizing the process and going through a migration from SBS2003 Standard to SBS2008 Premium.
Ed
PS – I’m sure within a week or so of completing everything VMWare will come up with a patch to allow USB drive access – but hey – that’s technology ;) 3/17/2009
Based on further research and readings online it seems no external USB drives are accessible to ESXi. Though I’m sure VMWare will someday make a change to this, that pretty much puts the final nail in the ESXi coffin. This really is a shame since the reporting and memory features of ESXi seem far superior to what I’m finding in Hyper-V… 3/7/2009
ESXi Installation
The first thing I did was to download ESXi 3.5u and burned it’s image to a CD. I then installed ESXi onto my server. It was amazing easy to install and setup. It literally took about 10 minutes and I was ready to install a guest operating system.
I loaded the client software on my Vista 32 machine and got started. I’m not going to go through a step-by-step detailed description of the setup but the general steps. I created 80G partition and started the installation process. Even though I have a good gig switch, it still took almost two and half-hours to load SBS2008 on the guest OS partition. Setup was very strait forward and easy – as most initial MS setups are. Once the system was up and running I checked the following items:
Memory Used by ESXi: 500Megs
Memory Used by the OS: 2Gigs or less
Backup Strategy: And here is where I ran into trouble. Even before I started installing either virtual os I had researched different ways to backup the system.
So here are some problems I’ve bumped into:
- ESXi only allows one USB device to be connected to a guest OS (or so says the ESXi manual). This won’t be enough to backup my system correctly.
- I couldn’t find any free software to do the image backups of the virtual containers.
o I tried stopping the virtual machine, right clicking on folder containing all the files and trying to download. It took about 70 minutes to download 100Gs via the client application to my Vista machine. Simply too long considering the production machine would be around a Terabyte.
o I did find some scripting suggestions that might work but I’m not inclined to try and learn another language on top of all the other items I’m trying to take care of.
So here I am with a perfectly good installation of SBS2008P running on ESXi, but I can’t seem to find a good way to back it up in a way I was hoping. Also, and I’m still experimenting with this, but it seems like the new Windows Server backup only does drive level backups and not file level backups. This also changes the way I might have to deal with using either ESX or Hyper-V.
In summary
- Installing and setting up ESXi was so easy it was astonishing!
- Installing Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium was time consuming but very strait forward. I only installed the windows server portion and not the SQL. That’s for letter
- I couldn’t easily find an easy backup solution to copy the virtual container files to another drive
- Only one USB drive mapping capabilities to a guest operating system
I’ve been running Microsoft’s Small Business Server 2003 standard since 2004. It’s been running very well and I’ve had a lot of success related to it’s stability and operational support. I even upgraded from an HP Netserver E60 (Dual P///550Mhz & 1G of Ram) to a Dell PowerEdge 1900 with Dual Quad CPUs and 3Gs ram.
But as I’ve grown and want to try more & newer things, I purchased a copy of Small Business Server 2008 Premium. I do a lot of SharePoint work and thought using a real SQL database would be a good thing… I also picked up another PowerEdge 1900, identical to the first but with 16Gs ram. I figured, I’ll migrate my system right into the virtual world, and that’s where my dilemma begins!
The following few posts will describe what I’m looking into and what I’ve found. Let me say at first I thought it was going to be easy to decide, well that’s not the case. At least not yet!
So my goals for this project focus around disaster recovery. I want to make sure that if I have a hardware failure I can quickly and easily restore to other hardware. I'd also like to be able to run tests on software installs, in a test enviroment, before publishing something into production.
The main server with 16Gs ram should be able to support:
- Two guest operating systems, on top of a virtual OS. The guest OS’s are Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium.
- Backup the servers to external USB drives
- Backup the virtual containers as often as possible, but no less than once a month. This is in case of a hardware failure, I can move these virtual containers to my backup server and once they are running do a restore of the latest windows backup.
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