How to create a Virtual PC in Windows Azure

To logging to Windows Azure use https://manage.windowsazure.com link and give your account username and Password. Then you will see this “ALL ITEMS” Window

If you want to crate a new Virtual PC, go in to NEW > Compute > Virtual Machine

              

If you want to create new VPC select Quick Create and give required details,

            

If not you can go with an already created template. For that select “From Gallery”. Then select the Operating system.

             

Then give a VPC name and Password for the selected VPC…. You can change the VPC Size as per your requirement.

              

Fill the details about Virtual Machine Mode (Standalone/ Existing, Storage mode and Region)

           

In Availability Set, select Create availability set (Optional). When a virtual machine is a member of an availability set, it is deployed to different fault domains as other virtual machines in the set. Multiple virtual machines in an availability set make sure that your application is available during network failures, local disk hardware failures, and any planned downtime. If you are creating an availability set, enter the name for the availability set.

            

Once you click OK, you can see the status of the VPC creation in the next window.
 
           

Once this finished, you can use your Local PC Remote Desktop Connection to access this VPC. For that give your Azure VPC name and click Connect.
                    
Then give your User name and password

                             

If the credentials are correct, it will prompt this Security Certificate window. Click yes and continue.
           
                             

Now you will able to RDP in to your Azure VPC.
   
              
             

Fix: Windows 8 Enable Feature DotNET 3.5 Error 0x800F0906

In Windows 8 we can enable “NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0) “ and “NET Framework 4.5” as shown below.

But once we click Ok and run the wizard, it will try to install .Net 3.5 and  prompt an error saying that, 

Windows couldn’t complete the requested changes. Windows couldn’t connect to the Internet to download necessary files. Make sure you are connected to the Internet, and press “Retry” to try again. Error code: 0x800F0906

This means using this wizard we cant install .Net 3.5 . Therefore to fix this issue, follow the steps listed below.
  1.  Insert the Windows 8 DVD in to CD ROM or mount the Installation ISO file. (If you have Win 8 ISO in you PC, you can simply right click on that ISO and select mount)
  2.  Use the CMD in run as Administrator
  3.  After that type the following command:
dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFX3 /All /Source:D:\Sources\SxS /LimitAccess

Now your Windows Feature of .NET Framework 3.5  is enabled. To verify go in to Windows Features
 
Congratulations ..   now you have .net 3.5 enabled on your Windows 8 PC.
 
Make sure to give correct Windows 8 Installation Media Drive Letter in above command. if not you will get below mentioned error.

CISCO VPN Error 442 in Windows 8

How to fix Cisco VPN Client error 442 on Windows 8.

If you get below mentioned error massage when you try to connect from Windows 8 computer,

You have to follow these steps to fix that issue.

1..  Go in to Run by pressing  Windows+R   and type Regedit,

2.You will get this window and find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\CVirtA

3.  Then select the Display name to modify, and remove the characters from the Value data. (there will be something like “@oem13.inf,%CVirtA_Desc%;Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows” )

•      For x86 PC, change the value data from something like"@oem8.inf,%CVirtA_Desc%;Cisco Systems VPN Adapter” to "Cisco Systems VPN Adapter”

•  For x64 PC, change the value data from something like "@oem8.inf,%CVirtA_Desc%;Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows” to "Cisco Systems VPN Adapter for 64-bit Windows”

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Now you can connect to your CISCO VPN. No need to restart your PC 

How to install MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) - 06

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Adding Office 2010 in to the Task Sequence

        With the previous steps we have already added the Office suite and configured to a silent installation.

Then go in to

1.    “Deployment Workbench” > “Task Sequences” > “Win7” > “Properties”.

2.    Access the tab “Task Sequence”. You can check all those options. (Most of them did not appear on the Task Sequence wizard) and change their values (In Properties) or disable specific steps.

3. Go in to “State Restore” > “Install Applications”. Select “Install a single application” > “Microsoft Office 2010”. Click “OK”.

If you want to add more applications later, to the same task sequence, use the same step on this task sequence, select “Add” > “General” > “Install Application”. 

Now installation of Office 2010 is included on the “Deploy Windows 7” sequence and will push in to the client machines silently.  After the configuration, we have to Update Deployment Share

1. Deployment Share >MDT Deployment Share write click and select “Update Deployment Share”

Select “Completely regenerate the Boot image” and click next

Then you will get this summary window

Click Finish to continue. 

How to install MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit) - 05

Adding Applications to MDT 2010: Office 2010 

We can add applications using a simple wizard. for that,

1.    “Deployment Workbench” > “Distribution Share” > “Applications” > “New”.

2.    Select “Application with source files”.

3.    Complete the data about the application.

4.    Select the “Source Directory”. Since I have it on the hard drive, I’ll check “Move the files to the distribution share instead of copying them”. 

5. Keep the directory name as suggested: “Microsoft Office 2010”.

6. On “Command Details” introduce the name of the executable for Office 2010: “setup.exe” and click on “Finish”. We’ll add the special arguments to achieve silent installations in next steps.