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What is AdBlue?

flamaster — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:20:39 +0000

What is AdBlue?

AdBlue is not a toxic liquid solution of urea, applied for the chemical reduction in nitric oxides (NOx) in lorries. AdBlue is non-explosive, as well as not harmful substance for the environment, she was classified as substance about the smallest risk of the transport. AdBlue delivered in the framework of the Air1 conception, by the producer Yara Company from Norway, is meeting basic requirements of the quality (of V Dinas 70070), as also more requiring the CEFIC norm (European Council of the Chemical Industry), guaranteeing failure-free functioning of the SCR system in of you vehicles.

what the IV Euro is and the V Euro?

the IV Euro and the V Euro are norms of reductions in emission of harmful substances, legislated by the European Union for vehicles above 3.5 ton. Such substances were provided with regulations as: nitric oxides (Nox), solid molecules (PM), hydrocarbon (HC) and carbon monoxides (CO). The IV Euro will start being implemented since October 2005 by the October 2006, the V Euro from October 2008 till October 2009.

what is the SCR technology?

the SCR Abridgement means the Selective Catalytic Reduction zbiornik na adBlue, it is process of the selective chemical reduction in harmful nitric oxides to completely harmless figure, i.e. water and nitrogen. It decided to apply the majority of European producers of lorries, buses and coaches just these technologies in order to reach the level of emission of harmful substances fulfilling the norm of the IV Euro. One should give the titbit, that producers which used the IV alternative technologies to fulfilling of the norm the Euro, for meeting requirements of the V Euro decided on the SCR technology.

Main sub-assemblies of the SCR system constitute: SCR Catalyst, the nozzle of the AdBlue injection, the independent AdBlue container and the dosing individual. AdBlue gathered in the container next is being injected with the help of the nozzle to the exhaust arrangement of vehicle, in SCR catalyst AdBlue urea is reacting chemically with ammonia what is leading to the transformation backgroundnków of nitrogen (NOx) into nitrogen (N2) and water (H2O).

what is Air1?

Air1 is an exceptional conception created by Yara companies and Brenntag. Yara as the largest producer of urea in world provides with the safety of solid supplies, the best quality product. Brenntag as the largest European distributor of Air1-AdBlue liquid, is guaranteeing the possibility of supplies in the 48h sequence to the any place in Europe. Norms of Dinas 70070, ISO and CEFIC provide with the quality of our product, the one last is guaranteeing that in the case of damage to the SCR system it is we are responsible for possible repairs. Air1 is a conception guaranteeing the best quality in every respect.

where is it possible to buy AdBlue?

in the AdBlue here and now it is possible to buy in each of 11 Brenntag units Poland, it will be sufficient to place an order at our sales representative and the latest in the sequence of 48 hours goods will be provided you directly. AdBlue now is already available as part of service networks and dealer producers of such well-known makes of lorries as the Volvo or Iveco. In the near future our product will be available on the majority of stations of fuels leading distributors in Poland.

what containers is AdBlue available in?

an IBC package, i.e. a litre thousand are a Basic answer container intended to put a transport base on the area. With the larger fleet they can supply companies oneself into AdBlue dispensers developing in ranges from 2000 to 10000 litres capacities. In every case very much canisters are a reasonable answer (10? 30 litres) treated as the reserve.

how much does it cost AdBlue?

the AdBlue Price can change depending on prices of raw materials, as well as from the size of individual orders, however she should not cross the price of the litre of diesel. Savings of burning fuel in diesel engines equipped with the SCR arrangement will be bigger than the AdBlue price.

how many will I need AdBlue?

they after numerous tests carried out by producers of vehicles equipped with the SCR technology assume that the AdBlue wear and tear will constitute the 4-5% with respect to the wear and tearfuels, in the case of the norm of the IV Euro, and the 6% in the case Euro V. Czyli per 100 km an about 1.7 AdBlue litre will be needed. Assuming that the average AdBlue container in a truck tractor has the capacity of 100 litres, this amount should suffice for travelling the route from Warsaw to Madrid and back without the need to fuel up.

Menggambar Hasil Pengukuran dengan AutoCAD Script

misterpawank — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:49:32 +0000

Lama kumencari artikel untuk topik ini, akhirnya muncul juga oleh kang edo.
tinggal mencari supaya diautocad bisa bikin kontur tanahnya juga nih....ada yang tau...?

Dikutip dari : tentangcad.com

Script adalah serangkaian perintah AutoCAD yang disimpan dalam satu file .scr. File ini dapat dibuat dengan notepad, dan disimpan dengan extension tersebut. Sama saja sebetulnya dengan mengetikkan berulang-ulang pada command line, AutoCAD akan mengeksekusi setiap command yang dituliskan di script file.

Saya memperoleh satu file excel berisikan koordinat hasil pengukuran lahan. Ketimbang saya harus mengetikkan koordinatnya satu-persatu, di sini saya menggunakan script. Dari file excel ini, saya mengubahnya menjadi script!

Jika anda tertarik untuk mencobanya, dapat mendownload file tersebut. Bukalah dengan Microsoft Excel. Sekarang kita harus membuatnya menjadi file text, dan setiap nilai X dan Y dipisahkan dengan koma. Save as file ini sebagai csv (comma delimited).

Sekarang browse dengan windows explorer, dan ubah extensionnya dari csv menjadi .scr. SCR adalah extension untuk AutoCAD Script. Jika anda tidak dapat melihat file extensionnya, anda harus mengubah option explorer lebih dahulu. Pada menu explorer, pilih tools>folder options. Pada tab View, matikan pilihan hide extensions for known file types.

Klik dua kali file SCR ini untuk membukanya. Secara default file ini akan dibuka dengan notepad. Perhatikan bahwa file ini sudah berisi koordinat yang harus kita gambar.

863.81,981.54
854.02,989.09
826.76,996.33
827.99,1005.29

dst…

Sekarang pada bagian paling atas, tambahkan LINE untuk mengaktifkan tool line. Sekarang coba ingat-ingat. Bagaimana tool line bekerja? Sesudah anda ketikkan line, AutoCAD akan meminta first point, lalu next point, next point lagi, dan seterusnya. Jadi dengan menambahkan line di baris paling atas saja sudah cukup. AutoCAD akan mengeksekusi setiap baris, dan menganggap untuk mencapai baris selanjutnya sama dengan anda menekan [enter].

LINE
863.81,981.54
854.02,989.09
826.76,996.33
827.99,1005.29

dst…

Sekarang file script kita sudah jadi. Di AutoCAD, matikan dynamic input. Kita tidak akan menggunakan dynamic input untuk script ini. Jika anda masih ingat, default dynamic input adalah koordinat relatif. Padahal data kita dalam koordinat global. Untuk sementara matikan saja dulu dynamic input.

Sekarang dari menu tools, pilihlah run script. Pada dialog yang terbuka, pilihlah file script yang telah kita siapkan tadi. Tekan [enter] untuk mengakhiri tool line. Coba zoom extend, seharusnya area pengukuran lahan sudah digambarkan!

*Terima kasih buat mas Ade yang sudah memberikan penjelasan tentang script di AutoCAD. Script di MicroStation punya beberapa perbedaan coding, sehingga saya sempat bingung :D.

SCR server drive failed, this caused SCR to fail; Steps we used to rebuild

workitsafe — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:51:40 +0000

As a reminder we blogged at http://workitsafe.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/scr-in-ebs-step-by-step-instructions/ and http://workitsafe.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/scr-in-ebs-step-by-step-instructions-fail-over-steps-part2/ the SCR setup instructions.

The Backup exchange server lost its data drive raid, and we had to replace the controller card, on startup we ran the Test-ReplicationHealth

The error that came back was

EXCHANGE-BU ReplayService Passed

EXCHANGE-BU SGCopySuspended Passed

EXCHANGE-BU SGCopyFailed *FAILED* Failures:

Standby Continuous Replication for storage group 'EXCHANGE\Second Storage Group' is in a 'Failed' state on server 'EXCHANGE-BU'. The error message is: The Microsoft Exchange Replication Service encountered an error while inspecting the logs and database for EXCHANGE\Second Storage Group on startup. The specific error code returned is: Microsoft.Exchange.Cluster.Replay.FileCheckLogfileMissingException: File check failed : Logfile 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Mailbox\Second Storage Group\E0100000E2C.log' was not found. at Microsoft.Exchange. Cluster.Replay.FileChecker.CheckLogfiles(Int64 minimumGeneration, Int64 maximumGeneration)at Microsoft.Exchange.

Cluster.Replay.FileChecker.RunChecks() at Microsoft.Exchange.

Cluster.Replay.ReplicaInstance.ConfigurationChecker(Object stateIgnored).

EXCHANGE-BU SGInitializing Passed

EXCHANGE-BU SGCopyQueueLength Passed

EXCHANGE-BU SGReplayQueueLength Passed

EXCHANGE-BU SGStandbyReplayLag Passed

We got the same error for the "First Storage group"

We fixed this by running the suspend command; deleted the data in the folders, and re-seeded

Suspend-StorageGroupCopy -Identity “exchange\First Storage Group” -StandbyMachine “exchange-bu”

Suspend-StorageGroupCopy -Identity “exchange\Second Storage Group” -StandbyMachine “exchange-bu”

Deleted data from "First and Second storage" group (on the backup exchange server)

Update-StorageGroupCopy -Identity “exchange\First Storage Group” -StandbyMachine “exchange-bu”

Update-StorageGroupCopy -Identity “exchange\Second Storage Group” -StandbyMachine “exchange-bu”

Resume-StorageGroupCopy -identity:”exchange\First storage Group” -standbymachine “exchange-bu”

Resume-StorageGroupCopy -identity:”exchange\Second Storage Group” -standbymachine “exchange-bu”

Run commands to Test Replication Health (on backup)

a. Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus “exchange\First Storage Group” -StandbyMachine “exchange-bu”

b. Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus “exchange\Second Storage Group” -StandbyMachine “exchange-bu”

c. Test-ReplicationHealth

Should see

Tides of Dreams

msvmuthu — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:38:26 +0000

I do dream. I have been dreaming of doing things, all through my life. Often, my dreams disappear like tides on the sand. I forget them – once in a while. When I dream again, they are not the same again. Dreams constantly change. They say: change is the only thing that does not change, well add my dreams too. I do dream now.

Like tides on the sand, my dreams reappear, again and again. Like tides they are different every time.

Cummins choose SCR future

tim giles — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:59:18 +0000

Cummins has announced that it will add Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) aftertreatment to its Heavy-Duty products for the US market in 2010 to deliver the best fuel efficiency for its customers.

The SCR technology will be included in the next generation of engines for North America in order to meet US EPA 2010 at emission levels not due for introduction here in Australia until 2013.

As previously announced, Cummins' Heavy-Duty ISX engine family will incorporate the XPI fuel system, proven cooled Exhaust Gas Recirculation, the Cummins VG turbocharger, Cummins Particulate Filter and advanced electronic controls for the best performance, fuel economy and reliability.

“Cummins' expertise in engine system integration means that we have the capability to make the engine systems and aftertreatment technologies work together seamlessly,” said Steve Charlton, Vice President, Heavy-Duty Engineering. “The addition of the new SCR catalyst technology ensures that Cummins will deliver the best fuel economy in the industry and total operating cost benefits to our customers.

“This move demonstrates Cummins’ ability to adapt to a changing environment by leveraging technology advancements from our MidRange engine development and Cummins Emission Solutions,” said Ed Pence, Vice President and General Manager, Heavy-Duty Engine Business. “Our 2010 engine development is progressing on plan and customers can depend on Cummins to deliver these new products on-time, with the reliability, performance, and fuel economy that they have come to expect from us.”

When asked whether there were technical difficulties with the previously announced non-SCR engine, Cummins strenuously denied.

“That product was all set to launch in January, 2010,” said Steve Charlton, vice-president of heavy-duty engineering with Cummins. “The program was performing well, the product was performing well and we were hitting all our targets.”

Medical in China may be key to invest in August. Candidates are: China Medical Technologies (CMED), (MR) Mindray Medical, (SCR) Simcere Pharmaceutical, (SSRX) 3SBIO Pharma, (WX) WuXi Pharmatech

deminvest — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:23:06 +0000

[caption id="attachment_311" align="aligncenter" width="380" caption="Chinese Hospitals must be huge and many"][/caption]

When I see US Economy stuck and China Economy growing 10% pace my simple mind thinks:

1) I want to invest in China rather than in the US

2) I don't want to invest in a Chinese company which exports to US

So I wonder... what will Chinese people spend on, as soon as they have some money in their pockets. The answer is easy. First on Cell phone, second on Health-care. Since I already am an happy owner of (CHL) China Mobile, China's largest Cell Phone company, I should look at the Medical business.

CMED is a (healthy) health care company. China Medical Technologies provides tools for medical analysis, specially connected with fertility problems. CMED is quite expensive with Trailing P/E: 26 and Forward P/E: 15. What is interesting is the fact that China Medical Technologies is growing its Revenues 74.30% year on year. Earnings had a slower growth of 17.50%, but that is probably because the company is now mainly focused in gaining market shares and growing. CMED also pays a 1.00% dividend yield which is nice for such growth company.

MR is a larger than CME. Mindray had a nice growth: 8% yoy revenue growth 46% earnings growth yoy are strong and interesting. The fact that Mindray owns $313.84M of cash, about 8% of its Market Cap, is also pretty good.

(SCR) Simcere Pharmaceutical mainly produces generic pharmaceuticals which are good specially in an overpopulated and still poor country like China. Current P/E around 15 is an honest price-tag for a company that grew with Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy):26.40% and Qtrly Earnings Growth (yoy):67.50%. Also 130 Millions cash are great news for a company that is valued as a whole 770 Million Market Cap.

(SSRX) 3SBIO is a Chinese biotech company that does biotech research for new pharmaceuticals. At 3SBIO they have already developed two good one:s EPIAO and TPIAO for blood diseases. Those two already guarantee Trailing P/E (yoy):16 and Forward P/E:12 which are excellent for a company that still plenty of cash for new research: SSRX owns 115.71M cash, more than half the market CAP 197.72M.

Market Cap: 195.99M. Meaning that half of this company's price is made by cash.

(WX) WuXi Pharmatech is a Chinese - American company that offers services and products to Biotech research companies. I don't like it because, from what I understood, it doesn't do its own research, but gets pay by other biotech companies to help them. This should mean WX will never hit a Bingo. Also it is quite expensive, compared to the above: Trailing P/E :32.24, Forward P/E: 18.68. I must admit growth rates are impressing: Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy):68.70%, Qtrly Earnings Growth :131.90%.

What does "SCR" mean?

Scene Lingo — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:34:59 +0000

A scr is a pre VHS tape, sent to rental stores, and various other places for promotional use. A screener is supplied on a VHS tape, and is usually in a 4:3 (full screen) aspect ratio, although letterboxed screeners are sometimes found. The main draw back is a "ticker" (a message that scrolls past at the bottom of the screen, with the copyright and anti-copy telephone number). Also, if the tape contains any serial numbers, or any other markings that could lead to the source of the tape, these will have to be blocked, usually with a black mark over the section. This is sometimes only for a few seconds, but unfortunately on some copies this will last for the entire film, and some can be quite big. Depending on the equipment used, screener quality can range from excellent if done from a MASTER copy, to very poor if done on an old VHS recorder thru poor capture equipment on a copied tape. Most screeners are transferred to VCD, but a few attempts at SVCD have occurred, some looking better than others.

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So I live at ISH in London

mattinlondon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:12:34 +0000

I love the place, my buddies love the place but this guy hates it!!
http://marketingera.wordpress.com.

I've been chatting to real nice guy I met on the ish event website about esfan08 and his site and we decided to make our own site about him!

This may seem stupid and it is, but I think the guy needs to loosen up.

So this was the post he made today:

"It is surprising to see International Student House (ISH) actually understand the term “shame” and “binge drinking”. Below are just a few words they entered the search engines to see if they unethical charity (international student house - known as ISH ) comes up and they were successful to find their destination - the blog which informed Westminster Fair Trade Office and made ISH to reposition their cigarette vending machines and hopefully NOT letting under age girls get into their ISH-BAR

ish halls
what are the terminologies in sales mark
the age 1st july 2008 binge drinker
international student house london
tanya hyde house of shame

Good luck to Tanya and David - you are just telling your real names and your IP addresses mach those threatening and abusive comments you made couple months ago with “misleading names”.

We can see you are still learning and God knows when you want to take care of your so called charity which actually take inappropriate directions for survival."

And again international student house (ISH)

esfahan08 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:48:09 +0000

It is surprising to see International Student House (ISH) actually understand the term "shame" and "binge drinking". As a result of this blog, Westminster Fair Trade Office made International Student House (ISH) to reposition their cigarette vending machines and hopefully NOT letting under age girls get into their ISH-BAR ;) Pictures are available which can be published and given to relevant authorities for further investigation. However the world now is aware of unethical behaviour of International Student House (ISH) "charitable activities" :P .

By the way, good luck to Tanya and David ;) in their non-sense so called management and suing this effective Blog - which informed many universities andinstitutions and importantly Westminster Fair Trade Office to save the public and encourage the "charity", International Student House (ISH) to consider ethics and cultural values - you are just telling your real names and your IP addresses mach those threatening and abusive comments you made couple months ago with "misleading names".

We can see you are still learning and God knows when you want to take care of your so called charity which actually take inappropriate directions for survival.

To see it for yourselves that International Student House (ISH) is not compiled with the Charity Commission set of rules (because of promoting alcohol and placing cigarette vending machines in areas which are easy to access by youths and importantly under age individuals - vulnerable members of public - as well as offensive pictures and text used by the charity (ISH) for "promotion" purposes which indeed mis-educate and mislead the youths society), please visit the charity-commission website and the sumarry of public benefit. International Student House (ISH) is harming the society and through its irresponsible marketing and management strategies. Their lack of ethical and CSR awareness is costing our youths and their future; therefore appropriate actions should be taken to save lives of thousands... Not caring about what ISH is doing allow further misconduct from youths for which they wrongly been criticised by many. Youths are in a sense are victims of vultures alike International Student House (ISH).

WE NEED TO SAVE OUR YOUTHS AND STOP UNETHICAL ORGANISATIONS SUCH AS INTERNATIONAL STUDENT HOUSE (ISH) TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM AND MISLEAD AND MISEDUCATE THEM.

Simple y eficaz alarma con solo dos compontes activos

soloelectronicos — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:28:14 +0000

By CRN

Puesto que las ventanas o puertas son elementos de una vivienda muy sensibles a la intrusión se ha pensado un circuito de protección de estos elementos lo mas fiable posible, que al mismo tiempo sea simple y sencillo de construir e instalar

Para este cometido por su alta fiabilidad, bajo costo y fácil instalación se ha decidido el uso de contactos reed como detectores de penetración puntuales.

Dado que nos apoyaremos en ampollas reed para formar el bucle de alarma y estas son circuitos normalmente abiertos (cerrados ante la acción del campo magnético), el bucle de alarma se constituirá por ampollas reed en serie (tantas como se precisen)

Como en todo circuito serie, ante la interrupción de un solo elemento, el circuito quedará abierto (debiendo ser esta la condición de alarma), para lo cual necesitaremos un elemento que nos invierta la citada condición (al trabajar en modo inverso pues cerrado o VBAT es no alarma y abierto ó 0 Vol. es alarma).

Para este cometido se ha utilizado un simple transistor NPN de baja potencia y bajo coste:
el BC 547B trabajando en modo conmutación, de modo que cuando el bucle esta cerrado la red de protección R4, R6 y R5 aseguran la saturación de Q1 por la baja corriente (aprox. 2mA) proporcionada a la base de Q1 hasta que se interrumpa S2 o S3, el cual pasara al corte (ya que dejará de haber tensión en su base)...

Saber mas >>

Real picture of International Student House (ISH)from mouth of fruits

esfahan08 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:24:15 +0000



I am gone off-ISH and fight for my essence (being gone off-ISH), my aim is to ruin

this so called healthy lifestyle.

Remember that I’m 1 of the 5 although I am gone off-ISH. This belief makes me to

achieve what I want to achieve (messing up your stomach).

Although I don’t understand anything about planning and strategy my next task is to ruin

the other 4 :P

There are many proofs of my aim, i.e by selling cigarette and alcohol to youths and

under aged (i.e. the 17 year olds in the ISH Bar couple months ago ;) ). Wow!!!

I have more in the pipeline to ruin dignity this is the ultimate aim at gone off-ISH.

Take a further look at inside the gone off-ISH:

P.S. first readers of this post were right after having this posted from International Student House (ISH) offices - thanks to Google Alert ;) but you better learn about management and strategy development first and second and third and last.

SCR IN EBS!!! Step By Step instructions: Setup Part1;

workitsafe — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:57:37 +0000

Will post 2 blogs; The first will be on setup; the 2nd will be on failing over.

Install the 2nd Exchange on a clean windows 2008 standard

For this blog we have named the Messaging server "exchange" and the standby server "exchange-bu"

dcpromo and make this server a member dc

change the time zone to match the other servers; by default the server will be at Pacific time zone

Run Windows Update patch

install Windows power Shell

Install IIS

specifically IIS Management Console; IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility; IIS 6 Management Console; IIS7 Dynamic Content Compression; IIS7 Basic Authentication; IIS 7 Windows Authentication; IIS 7 Digest Authentication. Ensure WWW service is running, otherwise you will get this error

Install Exchange using the "Typical Exchange Server installation"

make sure that the install path match the Messaging server for example "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server"

Your screen will move along to

The Hub Transport Role can take over 10 minutes to install.

Once the install has completed make sure to run windows update to update Exchange to the latest release

the 2 servers always have to have matching builds.

Check the event viewer for event 1032 "No Credentials was found for security_server.domain.local

If you see this follow these steps.

___________________________________________________

1. Remove Edge Certificate from an exchange server using the Remove-EdgeSubscription command in powershell (when prompted for identity, enter name of security server, then select "y" when prompted).

2. Restart Microsoft Exchange Transport Service on all servers.

3. On security server in powershell, create a new Edge subscription using the command New-EdgeSubscription -filename "c:\subscription.xml"

4. Put subscription.xml into a shared folder.

5. On one of the exchange servers (hub), in Exchange Management Console, click on Organizational Configuration >> Hub Transport on the left hand tree. Then click on the Edge Subscriptions tab.

6. Right click in windows and select "New Edge Subscription", and select subscription.xml.

7. Run command on the exchange server Start-EdgeSynchronization, in powershell.

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In TMG firewall policy go to "Allow Microsoft exchange EdgeSync Traffic from messaging server" and add in the exchange-bu server

In TMG firewall policy go to " Allow Outbound SMTP Mail Traffic to Security Server" and add in the exchange-bu server

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Add the "Windows PowerShell" to the Exceptions list on both exchange servers under Windows Firewall settings

On "exchange-bu" set "Microsoft Exchange Transport" service to manual and stop the service

_______________________________________________________

1. run on exchange Enable-StorageGroupCopy -identity "First Storage Group" -StandbyMachine exchange-bu -ReplayLagTime 0.1:0:0

2. run on exchange Enable-StorageGroupCopy -identity "Second Storage Group" -StandbyMachine exchange-bu -ReplayLagTime 0.1:0:0

3. run on exchange : Suspend-StorageGroupCopy -Identity "exchange\First Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

4. run on exchange: Suspend-StorageGroupCopy -Identity "exchange\Second Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu”

5. run on backup exchange: Update-StorageGroupCopy -Identity "exchange\First Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

You should see the a similar screen to this (this can take some time to start if the database is over 30 gigs)



6. run on backup exchange: Update-StorageGroupCopy -Identity "exchange\Second Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

7. run on backup exchange: Resume-StorageGroupCopy -identity:"exchange\First storage Group" -standbymachine “exchange-bu”

8. run on backup exchange: Resume-StorageGroupCopy -identity:"exchange\Second Storage Group" -standbymachine “exchange-bu”

9. Run commands to Test Replication Health (on backup)

a. Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus "exchange\First Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

b. Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus "exchange\Second Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

c. Test-ReplicationHealth

Should get back passed on all tests

You can check the following link for some errors you might come across; http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/05/28/448929.aspx

Detroit spruik SCR

tim giles — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:00:23 +0000

With the next series of EPA regulations quickly approaching for the US truck market, Daimler Trucks North America has begun explaining why it will use SCR on its Detroit Diesel engines.

In a podcast posted on their website, president and CEO Chris Patterson discusses the benefits of using BlueTec SCR technology.

In the podcast, Patterson explains how this new technology will provide cleaner emissions while improving fuel economy.

According to Daimler research, both testing and real-world operations in Europe are show a 3-5% improvement in fuel economy. Daimler senior vice-president of marketing Mike Delaney has already hailed BlueTec to be "The ultimate solution" in an economy where fuel economy is increasingly critical.

The podcast goes into more detail on why Daimler has decided to pursue SCR technology to meet EPA2010 emissions standards.

SCR in EBS

workitsafe — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:38:14 +0000

"Draft" SETUP STANDBY CONTINUOUS REPLICATION

1.       Turn off Windows Firewall on both Exchange and Backup Exchange

2.       run on exchange             Enable-StorageGroupCopy -identity "First Storage Group" -StandbyMachine exchange-bu -ReplayLagTime 0.1:0:0

3.       run on exchange              Enable-StorageGroupCopy -identity "Second Storage Group" -StandbyMachine exchange-bu -ReplayLagTime 0.1:0:0

4.       run on exchange :            Suspend-StorageGroupCopy -Identity "exchange\First Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

5.       run on exchange:             Suspend-StorageGroupCopy -Identity "exchange\Second Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu”

6.       run on backup exchange: Update-StorageGroupCopy -Identity "exchange\First Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

7.       run on backup exchange: Update-StorageGroupCopy -Identity "exchange\Second Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

8.       run on backup exchange: Resume-StorageGroupCopy -identity:"exchange\First storage Group" -standbymachine “exchange-bu”

9.       run on backup exchange: Resume-StorageGroupCopy -identity:"exchange\Second Storage Group" -standbymachine “exchange-bu”

10.   Run commands to Test Replication Health (on backup)

a.                       Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus "exchange\First Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

b.                      Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus "exchange\Second Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

c.                       Test-ReplicationHealth

SCR BACKUP SERVER ACTIVATION

1.       If possible, Dismount both databases on the exchange server.

2.       Run on backup exchange: Restore-StorageGroupCopy "exchange\First Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

a.       If the exchange server is not available add the parameter –force at the end of the command.

b.      If you get the following error, wait a short amount of time and then run the command again as the copy might just need to finish:

3.       Run on backup exchange: Restore-StorageGroupCopy "exchange\Second Storage Group" -StandbyMachine "exchange-bu"

a.       If the exchange server is not available add the parameter –force at the end of the command.

4.       check database state

a.       On storage1

b.                      eseutil /mh "D:\Windows Essential Business Server\Exchange\Mailbox\first storage group\Mailbox Database.edb "

c.       if it shows dirty shutdown run

d.                      d: cd "d:\Windows Essential Business Server\Exchange\Mailbox\first storage group"

e.                      eseutil /r e00

f.        On public folder

g.                       eseutil /mh "D:\Windows Essential Business Server\Exchange\Mailbox\second Storage Group\Public Folder Database.edb "

h.      if it shows dirty shutdown run

i.                        d: cd "d:\Windows Essential Business Server\Exchange\Mailbox\second storage group"

j.                        eseutil /r e01

k.

5.       Create Storage Groups and Databases on backup exchange that have same names as the ones on exchange. They should point to temporary paths, not to the path of the copied data. Also be sure that when you create these you check DO NOT MOUNT them, and that you right click on them and go into properties, and check “Do not mount this database at startup”.

6.       Run on backup exchange: Move-StorageGroupPath “exchange-bu\First Storage Group” -SystemFolderPath “D:\Windows Essential Business Server\Exchange\Mailbox\First Storage Group” -LogFolderPath “D:\Windows Essential Business Server\Exchange\Mailbox\First Storage Group” –ConfigurationOnly

7.       Run on backup exchange: Move-StorageGroupPath “exchange-bu\Second Storage Group” -SystemFolderPath “D:\Windows Essential Business Server\Exchange\Mailbox\Second Storage Group” -LogFolderPath “D:\Windows Essential Business Server\Exchange\Mailbox\Second Storage Group” –ConfigurationOnly

8.       Run on backup exchange: Move-DatabasePath "exchange-bu\first storage group\mailbox database" -EdbFilePath "D:\Windows Essential Business Server\Exchange\Mailbox\First Storage Group\Mailbox Database.edb" –ConfigurationOnly

9.       Run on backup exchange: Move-DatabasePath "exchange-bu\second storage group\public folder database" -EdbFilePath "D:\Windows Essential Business Server\Exchange\Mailbox\Second Storage Group\Public Folder Database.edb" -ConfigurationOnly

10.   Go into the properties windows of both databases on backup exchange(right click on database, select properties) in the Exchange Management Console and put a checkmark next to “This database can be overwritten by a restore”

11.   Right click on both databases in the backup exchange management console and click on Mount.

12.   Run on backup exchange: Get-Mailbox -Database "exchange\first storage group\mailbox database" |where {$_.ObjectClass –NotMatch ‘(SystemAttendantMailbox|ExOleDbSystemMailbox)'}| Move-Mailbox -ConfigurationOnly -TargetDatabase "exchange-bu\first storage group\mailbox database"

13.   Right-click on the Mailbox Database in the backup exchange console. Click on client settings. Change the default public folder database location from EXCHANGE\Second Storage Group\Public Folder Database to EXCHANGE-BU\Second Storage Group\Public Folder Database

International Student House (ISH) seems to be friend of binge drinking (which indeed can lead to crimes)

esfahan08 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:43:47 +0000

International Student House (ISH) places number of washing machines in its premises which are not working properly – leave stains on clothes which god knows who designed the shape of the stains (I’m sure you know what I mean). Funnily enough you need to pay for this service which this irresponsible and unethical charity provides to its residents whom are students – and have hard earned cash!!!

This is a new technique of rubbery which International Student House (ISH) is expert of – surely they can add consultancy to their “business” portfolio in this regard J

Money is even more vital to this unethical charity organisation than to for profit businesses. Clearly being a charity is a good way for them to rip off innocent public namely students.

Getting Organized...

David — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:13:08 +0000

30.05.

Dank Jetlag bin ich jetzt Frühaufsteher, schlag 06:00 Uhr war ich wach. Aber das ist eigentlich ganz gut so, ich will versuchen das so beizubehalten. Das Frühstück im Holiday Inn ist Klasse. Es gibt Ei, Speck, Burger, Bratkartoffeln, Bagles und so ziemlich alles andere was viel Fett hat. Ist halt typisch amerikanisch. Aber zum Buffet gehören auch Früchte, Musli und Toast, sowie Kaffee und Saft soviel wie man mag. Alles in Allem auf jeden Fall schon mal ein Grund die 13 Nächte im Hotel auf jeden Fall auszunutzen.

Schon als ich gestern hergefahren bin, war mir klar geworden, dass ohne Auto hier mal absolut gar nichts läuft. Die Aussage „Noone goes by foot“ kommt nicht von ungefähr. Man merkt einfach, dass die Stadtplanung hier ganz anders war als in Deutschland. Alles ist weiter von einander entfernt. Alles ist darauf ausgelegt, dass jeder ein Auto hat. Breite Straßen, riesige Parkplatzanlagen vor Geschäften oder Einkaufszentren. Und so gut wie keine gemeinsam nutzbaren Verkehrsmittel. In Princeton selber gibt es Busse, aber von einem Ort in den nächsten zu kommen ist ohne eigenes Auto ein ziemliches Problem.

Also war das auch das erste was ich angehen wollte: Mein Auto abholen. Also hab ich mir im Holiday Inn das hauseigene Shuttle für 08:00 Uhr reserviert, um mich nach Cranbury fahren zu lassen (dort sollte die Autovermietung sein). Mein Fahrer war ein typischer Amerikaner. Ich sage das deshalb, da alle Versuche sich mit ihm zu unterhalten fehl schlugen, da er einfach nicht bereit war beim sprechen die Zähne auseinander zu nehmen. Manchmal hab ich selbst mit Nachfragen nicht genau verstanden was er meinte. Nun ja, an ihm kann ich wenigstens in 4 Monaten dann testen, ob sich meine englisch Künste verbessert haben, und ich ihn dann verstehe :).

Während der Fahrt nach Cranbury wurde ich eines weiteren Unterschieds in der Verkehrsführung gewahr: Man kann auf den größeren Straßen hier nicht einfach links abbiegen. Es gibt einfach keine Abbiegespur, und Turns sind verboten. Man muss also wenn man links abbiegen will rechts abbiegen, und dann drehen. Meistens ist der Straßenverlauf so angelegt, dass das ohne weiteres möglich ist, aber man muss sich erstmal dran gewöhnen. Wie ich später feststellen sollte, bereitet einem dieses „Feature“ auch beim Karten lesen und Routen planen ungeahnte Überraschungen.

Bei der Autovermietung hatte ich das Glück zwischen 2 Fahrzeugen auswählen zu können. Das erste war ein schicker schwarzer Irgendwas, und ich mochte ihn sofort, und war gerade im Begriff ihn zu „meinem“ Wagen zu machen, als mir auffiel, dass leider der rechte Außenspiegel fehlte. Das ging so natürlich nicht. Also zeigte Pete mir den zweiten Wagen. Auch das war kein schlechtes Auto, aber er war nicht so nett wie die der schicke schwarze Irgendwas den ich hätte haben können, hätte er einen rechten Außenspiegel besessen. Irgendwie muss Pete mir die Enttäuschung wohl angesehen haben, denn er meinte irgendwas von wegen „you’r a tall guy eh? … hmm … like cars eh? .. hmm“ und dann … DANN… muhaha, dann zeigte er mir den hier:

Ein DODGE Avenger. Baujahr 2008. Quasi nagelneu. Klimaanlage, FETTE Anlage, elektrische Fensterheber, und den klassischen großen Kühler, sowie eine imposant hohe Motorhaube, die auf ordentlich Power schließen ließ. Muahhaha, und ich darf dieses Baby fahren. Der einzige Wehmutstropfen ist, dass er ein Automatik Getriebe hat, aber das hätten eh alle Wagen gehabt, hier gibt es wohl fast nichts anderes. Aber auch noch mit eigener Schaltung hätte ich mir die Cops von Princeton wohl schon am ersten Tag auf den Hals gehetzt, so bremst die Automatik die Beschleunigung etwas, und sorgt für einen noch zivilen Fahrstil *g*. Die Karre ist der Hammer, ich hoffe ich kann sie bis zum Ende behalten. Benzin verbraucht der Gute wohl etwas mehr als die anderen Wagen, aber das ist es mir alle Mal wert. Ich würd in Deutschland ja auch keinen Polo fahren wenn ich nen Porsche haben könnte =D. Benzin ist hier verdammt billig im Vergleich zu Deutschland, aber auch hier steigen die Preise, und die Amis jammern. Hier tankt man nicht Liter, sondern Gallons, wobei 1 Gallone genau 3.785411784 Litern entspricht und zur Zeit $3.80 kostet. Also quasi 1 Dollar pro Liter.

Es gab nur ein klitze kleine Kleinigkeit, die ich bei der ganzen Sache nicht bedacht hatte. Mein Hotel Shuttle war schon wieder abgefahren, so dass ich ihm nicht mehr nachfahren konnte. Der Weg nach Cranbury hatte ungefähr eine halbe Stunde gedauert, und die Chancen alleine zurückzufinden schätze ich als ziemlich mies ein. Zwar hatte ich eine notdürftige Touri Karte von Princeton, aber soweit reichte die natürlich nicht. Meine Rettung kam in Form eines GPS Navigationsgerätes, dass man bei Enterprise Rent-A-Car ebenfalls mieten konnte... für die Nichtigkeit von $10 pro TAG!! Das bezahlt Siemens leider nicht *g*. Aber gut, ich war absolut ortsfremd. Ich hatte keinen Plan von Nichts, und irgendwie musste ich ja anfangen mich mit der Umgebung vertraut zu machen. Ich nahm das Ding also mit, mit dem Plan es noch heute Abend oder spätestens am Samstag zurück zu geben.

Also war ich ausgestattet. Mit netter Karre und High Tech Navi Namens TomTom :P war ich startklar um Amerika zu erobern. Auf dem Hinweg waren wir durch Zufall schon am Gelände von Siemens vorbei gekommen, und da ich als nächstes vor hatte ein Konto zu eröffnen, und die bevorzugte Bank der Siemens Interns genau gegenüber liegt, fuhr ich dort als erstes hin.

In den Unterlagen die ich erhalten hatte, stand ausdrücklich drin, dass es ungünstig sei, schon vor dem ersten Arbeitstag zu erscheinen, da man wahrscheinlich keine Zeit haben würde sich mit mir zu befassen. Also alle Arbeitswut in Ehren, begnügte ich mich damit mir das Gelände und das Gebäude von außen anzuschauen.

Das Gebäude liegt nett im Grünen. Keine Spur von Industriegelände. Es gibt einen großen Parkplatz, genauer gesagt sogar zwei. Und den Streetballplatz hab ich auch schon entdeckt. Ich glaube man hätte es schlimmer treffen können. Ich bin gespannt auf Montag, wenn ich dann auch endlich rein darf :)

Nachdem ich meine Neugier befriedigt hatte, ging es dann zur PNC Bank. Ich war mir nicht sicher, ob meine VISA Karte hier überall akzeptiert werden würde, und selbst wenn kostet das jedes Mal 1,75%. Also muss ein amerikanisches Konto her. Ein „Checking Account“ mit eigener Kreditkarte. Bei PNC sind die Siemensianer schon bekannt, was die ganze Sache enorm erleichterte. Ich konnte das Konto ohne Schwierigkeiten eröffnen, und bekam auch meine Checks ausgehändigt. Das Prinzip der Checks, ist hier sehr verbreitet, obwohl es eigentlich wie ein wenig aus der Steinzeit anmutet. Zwar habe ich eine Unterschriftenprobe hinterlegt, aber sollte mir jemand meine Checks stehlen, ist dies das einzige Hindernis, um das gesamte Konto abzuräumen. Die Bedingungen sind der PNC Bank sind leider nicht in allen Belangen wirklich günstig. Das Konto ist kostenlos, ebenso wie die Kreditkarte und Überweisung innerhalb der USA. Auch Online Banking ist kostenlos. Aber, überziehen sollte man sein Konto hier besser nicht. Unabhängig vom Betrag, zieht eine negative Balance Kosten von mindestens $31 nach sich. Bei der nächsten Buchung bei negativer Balance… wieder $31 usw. Außerdem kostet das Überweisen von Geld auf das Konto aus Deutschland $18, und eine Überweisung nach Deutschland $40. Nun hatte ich aber genug Organisation geschoben für den ersten Tag. Auf nach Princeton.

Is it really SCR vs. Double-Take?

miketalonnyc — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:19:33 +0000

With the release of Exchange 2007 SP1, Microsoft finally released the long-awaited server to server log shipping systems for the Exchange platform. Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) – or Server Continuous Replication, depending on who you ask – is the idea that log files can be transmitted to another Exchange 2007 server, where they are played into a copy of the databases from the production system. That allows you to perform database portability in the event of a loss of the production server, and resume services as quickly as possible with little lost email. This technology is an extension of the Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) and Local Continuous Replication (LCR) tech that was included in the RTM release.

So, one would think that Microsoft appears to be squeezing out 3^rd party Disaster Recovery (DR) tool players, but nothing could be further than the truth. SCR is an incredible tool, but as with all the other tools included for free with Exchange, it has its limits. First is the restriction to one Store per Storage Group. This generally isn’t a true limitation for most organizations, as you can have up to 50 Storage Groups, but if you were already planning out your Exchange 2007 implementation and were planning on more than one Store per Group, you will have to change that configuration without the help of a 3^rd party tool like Double-Take.

Also, SCR contains no methodology for restoration and failback of the data and users. There are manual ways to use the SCR tools to accomplish this, but not in a bandwidth and time-effective manner. I wouldn’t go so far as to call this a shortcoming of SCR, as the tool was designed more for DR and not for immediately switching users back and forth, but it is a bit of a hindrance in an overall Business Recovery Plan, and does nothing to get you closer to Dynamic Infrastructure.

3^rd party solutions like Double-Take can open up even more options when it comes to DR protection for Exchange Server 2007 - and all other supported versions as well. As a matter of fact, that may be the best case for the use of Double-Take; SCR only protects 2007 mailbox databases. If you are in a hybrid environment or have heavy reliance on Public Folders and don’t wish to rely on Public Folder replication, you will be unable to use SCR as a sole method of High Availability for non-clustered Exchange environments.

All said, SCR is a huge step forward for Microsoft, but in many environments it may still need a little help to meet robust DR goals.

FIP ISF et loi TEPA

Maxime — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:10:15 +0000

Est ce que la loi TEPA va changer le paysage français des fonds ?

Depuis quelques mois, nous voyons pas mal d'entrepreneurs qui viennent nous voir en ayant entendu parler de dispositifs liés à l'ISF et les PME françaises. Ces nouveaux fonds (dits FIP ISF, FCPI ISF, voire Holding ISF), qui fleurissent depuis Avril sont souscrits auprès de particuliers redevables de l'impôt de solidarité sur la fortune qui peuvent ensuite déduire jusqu'à 75% du montant de l'investissement (à concurrence de 50 000 euros).

Si la mesure est incontestablement intéressante pour les PME, nous voyons une compétition accrue entre les fonds et ce, selon leurs véhicules d'investissement.

Pour faire simple et schématique:

1/ Je suis un FCPR ou une SCR. Mes souscripteurs n'ont pas d'avantages fiscaux et exigent un TRI compris entre 15 et 30% selon ma politique d'investissement. J'investis 50 000 euros dans le fonds: pour obtenir un TRI de 15%, le fonds doit me rendre 100 000 euros dans 5 ans.

2/ Je suis une toute nouvelle Holding ISF. Mes souscripteurs entrent avec une déduction fiscale importante. J'investis 50 000 euros dans le fonds: je peux déduire 37500 euros d'ISF sur l'année fiscale.  En faisant le calcul suivant: ((100 000 - 37500) / 50 000)^(1/5ans)-1, on obtient ....... 4.6% de TRI :

D'un côté on a un fonds qui doit performer 15% et de l'autre un qui doit faire 5%. Voilà pourquoi 2 FCPR à qui j'ai parlé font grise mine parce qu'ils viennent de perdre plusieurs deals au profit de fonds ISF.

Entrepreneurs, voyez dans ces liquidités supplémentaires une formidable opportunité pour lever des fonds, financer votre croissance et vous développer fortement

Quinto Forum di Politeia

marco valenti — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:45:30 +0000

Il Quinto Forum di Politeia su Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Economy si terrà a Milano – presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano – nei giorni 22 e 23 maggio 2008. Il Forum è organizzato da Politeia in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Studi Sociali e Politici e con il Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche “C. Beccaria” dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, e con il sostegno di un gruppo di Enti Promotori.

Il tema di questa edizione è:
“Corporate and Stakeholder Responsibility. Theory and Practice”.

Il programma, la scheda di partecipazione (che è indispensabile inviare compilata alla segreteria organizzativa entro e non oltre il 19 maggio e comunque fino ad esaurimento posti), il call for manuscripts per il numero speciale di “Politeia”, in cui saranno pubblicati gli Atti del Forum, e tutte le altre informazione relative al convegno sono disponibili sul sito web di Politeia, al seguente indirizzo:

http://www.politeia-centrostudi.org/forum/