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[EN] Microsoft Exams Online.. A Man of Worse Origin.

Posted by on December 26, 2014 No comments

imageTen days ago at Born To Learn Blog Liberty Munson annouced confirmation post about general availability of Online Proctored Microsoft Exams for MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) and MTA (Microsoft Technology Associations) exams. After beta period availability in United States this projest looks as succesfull project. With partnership of Pearson VUE (which in fact is only one partner for any Microsoft exams, beginning from 1st january next year) Microsoft expanded opportunnity for additional twenty countries. As I could expect… not for Microsoft Professionals in Poland:

Australia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United States, Uruguay

List of possible online proctored exams are huge:

70-331-OP: CoreSolutionsofMicrosoftSharePointServer2013
70-332-OP: AdvancedSolutionsofMicrosoftSharePointServer2013
70-336-OP: CoreSolutionsofMicrosoftLyncServer2013
70-337-OP: EnterpriseVoice&OnlineServiceswithMicrosoftLyncServer2013
70-341-OP: CoreSolutionsofMicrosoftExchangeServer2013
70-342-OP: AdvancedSolutionsofMicrosoftExchangeServer2013
70-346-OP: ManagingOffice365IdentitiesandRequirements
70-347-OP: EnablingOffice365Services
70-410-OP: InstallingandConfiguringWindowsServer2012
70-411-OP: AdministeringWindowsServer2012
70-412-OP: ConfiguringAdvancedWindowsServer2012Services
70-417-OP: UpgradingYourSkillstoMCSAWindowsServer2012
70-461-OP: QueryingMicrosoftSQLServer2012
70-462-OP: AdministeringMicrosoftSQLServer2012Databases
70-463-OP: ImplementingaDataWarehousewithMicrosoftSQLServer2012
70-469-OP: RecertificationforMCSE-OP: DataPlatform
70-470-OP: RecertificationforMCSE-OP: BusinessIntelligence
70-480-OP: ProgramminginHTML5withJavaScriptandCSS3
70-481-OP: EssentialsofDevelopingWindowsStoreAppsusingHTML5andJavaScript
70-482-OP: AdvancedWindowsStoreAppDevelopmentusingHTML5andJavaScript
70-483-OP: ProgramminginC#
70-486-OP: DevelopingASP.NETMVCWebApplications
70-488-OP: DevelopingMicrosoftSharePointServer2013CoreSolutions
70-489-OP: DevelopingMicrosoftSharePointServer2013AdvancedSolutions
70-490-OP: RecertificationforMCSD-OP: WindowsStoreAppsusingHTML5
70-491-OP: RecertificationforMCSD-OP: WindowsStoreAppsusingC#
70-494-OP: RecertificationforMCSD-OP: WebApplications
70-499-OP: RecertificationforMCSD-OP: ApplicationLifecycleManagement
70-517-OP: RecertificationforMCSD-OP: SharePointApplications
70-532-OP: DevelopingMicrosoftAzureSolutions
70-533-OP: ImplementingMicrosoftAzureInfrastructureSolutions
70-534-OP: ArchitectingMicrosoftAzureSolutions(beta)
70-640-OP: WindowsServer2008ActiveDirectory,Configuring
70-680-OP: TS-OP: Windows7,Configuring
70-687-OP: ConfiguringWindows8.1
70-688-OP: ManagingandMaintainingWindows8.1
70-692-OP: UpgradingYourWindowsXPSkillstoMCSAWindows8.1
70-695-OP: DeployingWindowsDevicesandEnterpriseApps
70-696-OP: ManagingEnterpriseDevicesandApps
70-980-OP: RecertificationforMCSE-OP: ServerInfrastructure
70-981-OP: RecertificationforMCSE-OP: PrivateCloud
70-982-OP: RecertificationforMCSE-OP: DesktopInfrastructure
74-409-OP: ServerVirtualizationwithWindowsServerHyper-VandSystemCenter
98-349-OP: WindowsOperatingSystemFundamentals
98-361-OP: SoftwareDevelopmentFundamentals
98-364-OP: DatabaseFundamentals
98-365-OP: WindowsServerAdministrationFundamentals
98-366-OP: NetworkingFundamentals
98-367-OP: SecurityFundamentals
98-375-OP: HTML5ApplicationDevelopmentFundamentals

More information here: Online Proctored Microsoft Exams Available in Twenty One Countries in December 2014 http://bit.ly/1H2Y7ac and here: Online proctored exams Registration and Requirements http://bit.ly/1zYO2YH

BUT

I understand why: Online proctored (OP) exams allow you to take an exam in the comfort of your home or office, often within 15 minutes of registering, while being monitored by an offsite proctor.

BUT

I completely don’t undestand why: why again Microsoft forgets about Poland; forgets, or is taking deliberate action agains Microsoft Professionals in Poland. Is not first time when I feel as:

A Man of Worse Origin.

We (in Poland) experienced many of similar stories: no availability of Microsoft Zune, no availability of X-Box Online, no availability of Sufrace 2 or 3 at TechEd and more. Why Microsoft, Why? Even some exams will be available in future, maybe, someday, in 2016 or 2020, why we are Peoples of Worse Origin?

[EN] VirtualBox 4.3.16 released

Posted by on September 15, 2014 No comments

After few months of break (holiday, break, computer change, migration whatever) I’m going back to my VirtualBox environment. Yesterday I went to VirtualBox Site to download actual software (version 4.3.16 release 96972). This version has been published in the name day of this month: 09/09.

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Change log say many interesting things:

  • VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)
  • GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size after exiting full-screen/seamless mode
  • GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with 3D guest rendering
  • GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute
  • GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen multi-screen mapping API
  • GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture behavior, see the manual for more information (bug #3506)
  • Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)
  • Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range
  • Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products
  • Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller
  • Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running under control of QEMM
  • 3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host
  • 3D: fixed white window appearing on entering FullScreen mode on OSX host
  • 3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)
  • 3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support
  • 3D: several fixes
  • Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging to a wireless interface
  • NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode when host was switched from one network to another one while host was sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)
  • NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)
  • NAT: don’t let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)
  • NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on Windows hosts (bug #12136)
  • NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option
  • NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts
  • NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP datagrams
  • VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input
  • USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)
  • Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain OSX guests (e.g. Mountain Lion)
  • Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression, bug #13187)
  • Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
  • X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work (bug #8745)
  • X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)
  • Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)
  • Linux guests: stop applications crashing when drm_wait_vblank is called (bug #13265)
  • Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)
  • X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection (bug #13107)
  • X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207)
  • X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)
  • VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows kernel debugging, details see http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/

As I posted before – pink is the important colour.

Please remember to download and install full setup – in phase one: Virtual Box (for host) and in phase two: Extension Pack (for host/guests). Extention Pack support e.g USB 2.0 Host Controller, Host Webcam, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM with E1000. And here are the links:

But this time I found something new for me. Four hot topic on home page:

Under first link you can download pre-built machines: Oracle WebCenter Portal VM / Oracle Data Integrator 12c VM / Oracle Big Data Lite VM / Service Delivery Platform VM / Database App Development VM / Enterprise Java Development VM / Oracle VM Manager & Server VMs / Oracle Linux 6 Admin VM / Solaris 11 Admin VM / Oracle Tuxedo Web Application Server Demo VM / Oracle Business Intelligence SampleApp / SOA & BPM Development VM / Enterprise PHP Development VM

ENJOY!

[EN] VirtualBox 4.3.8 released

Posted by on March 15, 2014 No comments

As always – two-three weeks after release date – I’m ready for installing new version of my favourite virtualizator – VirtualBox (from many months by Oracle). Official release date is 25th Feb, now on 15th March I can meet this version. Many of bugs has been fixed by developers team, and here is the change log (base on original from web site) – most important changes for my are in pink:

  • VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)
  • VMM: fixed a VERR_INVALID_RPL Guru Meditation when booting certain guests (bug #11350)
  • VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the manual for more information how to enable it (bug #8651)
  • VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization
  • GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see the manual for more information
  • GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)
  • GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in fullscreen/seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)
  • GUI: popup banner’s "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button
  • GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator
  • GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types (bug #12533)
  • GUI: better error message if appliance import fails (bug #12657)
  • GUI: allow to set host-combination to ‘None’ using the Global settings / Input page (bug #12730)
  • GUI: don’t switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge (4.3 regression)
  • VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times
  • AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances
  • AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances
  • AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)
  • AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions
  • AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions
  • AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes
  • NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used (bug #12441)
  • NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1
  • NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly
  • NAT Network: ping proxy implemented
  • OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element (4.3 regression; bug #12345)
  • OVF: several fixes
  • 3D support: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)
  • 3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)
  • 3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)
  • VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active (bug #6649)
  • USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances
  • BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives
  • API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)
  • VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see the manual for more information) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event (bug#9925)
  • VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups (bug #12569)
  • VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin (bug #12713)
  • Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)
  • Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network (bug #12241)
  • Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores
  • Linux hosts / guests: don’t warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)
  • Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)
  • Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents (bug #12596)
  • Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user’s process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)
  • Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)
  • Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users
  • Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade
  • Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user’s process environment variables
  • Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels (bug #12505)
  • Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels
  • Linux / Solaris Additions: don’t automount a shared folder which is already mounted
  • X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)

It’s definitely more than in last version (post about it are here). Please remember to download and install full setup – in phase one: Virtual Box (for host) and in phase two: Extension Pack (for host/guests). Extention Pack support e.g USB 2.0 Host Controller, Host Webcam, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM with E1000. And here are the links:

[EN] VirtualBox 4.3.6 released

Posted by on January 18, 2014 No comments

New version of VirtualBox has been released about one month ago. Current edition (build 4.3.6.91406) is only one good news from Oracle from last few days {read more: Oracle spoils your day with NEARLY 150 patches • The Register}. Developer’s Team fixed many bugs and added few new items, listed below:

  • VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)
  • VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)
  • VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)
  • VMM: fixed a VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC error when trying to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately, VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard these states (bug #12414)
  • VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests (bug #12245)
  • GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression, bug #12205)
  • GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors (bug #12480)
  • Main: don’t automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)
  • Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests (bug #12017)
  • Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change (bug #7063)
  • Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp() (bug #12498)
  • API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes due to GUI unavailability
  • Storage: fix for BLKCACHE_IOERR runtime errors under rare circumstances (bug #11030)
  • Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)
  • E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized the device, the link status was not properly set to ‘down’ after the initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection
  • 3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina hosts only; bug #11021)
  • Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones (4.3 regression, bug #12271)

I discovered this update yesterday – that is the result of using some software not frequently enough. For my development, sometimes my VirtualBox and VMachines are in “sleeping mode” for few weeks.

Anyway, download VirtualBox platform package and VirtualBox Extention Pack HERE.

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