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July 2008 - Posts

SCCM SP1 slipstream setup on SMS 2003 SP2/SP3 site fails to remove SMS_SQL_MONITOR service

As the topic of the post suggests, there is a small bug in the SCCM SP1 slipstream setup. This should make into a KB sooner or later. It occurs ONLY when upgrading from SMS 2003 SP2/SP3 to ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 . Note: Upgrading from SMS 2003 SP2/SP3 to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 7:38 PM by alipka | 0 Comments

New (6.0.6278.12) E2k7 OpMGR MP discovery and rule bugs

The just released E2k7 MP has two important bugs in it. I communicated this to the product group, and they are working on releasing a fix. Meanwhile workarounds are (thanks to Ake for quick response to this): 1. Discovery discovers E2k3 clustered backend Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:27 PM by alipka | 0 Comments

Hyper-V Offline backup script

I have created yet another backup script, since the previous one although correct worked only under VMM 2008. And VMM 2008 in its current BETA (+hyper-v patch) is still a bit unstable and the script caused the host to hang for large VM backups. The script Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 9:51 AM by alipka | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): BackupVMsHyper-V.zip

Writing English documents the "proper" way

While working on internal Hyper-V documentation I wrote over 200 pages of content (mostly technical). I got some reviews by Rob Dendtler (thx Rob!), and the most interesting things I learned from him were not technical, but tips regarding writing style. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:42 PM by alipka | 2 Comments

Off-topic things and some Hyper-V goodies (resources, backup and AzMan scope scripts)

Lately it's been very quiet on my blog. There are a couple of things to that. First and foremost there was recently a lot going on in my private life, and therefore I had little time to focus on anything else then family (well, I still had and HAVE to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:26 PM by alipka | 1 Comments

Attachment(s): BackupVMsAndScopeScripts.zip
 
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