Hi Ho – Neil Peterson here, the in-laws have invaded my house, so I am coming to you today from the corner booth at my local coffee shop. I have a quick little treat this morning, nothing to complicated, but pretty cool and important never the less. Quite recently I have begun work on some runbook...

In the first portion of this multi-blog look at software metering, I discussed how to create a software metering rule, observe on the client both the storage and processing of said rule, and finally discussed the server side summarization and how to manually initiate this summarization. With the metering...

In this series of System Center PFE blog posting I will be taking a deep-ish dive into the Configuration Manager 2007 to 2012 Configuration Manager Migration capabilities. This series of posts will examine logging, status messages, data, and the flow of the migration process. For a basic understanding...

Continuing on with the automated SQL Cluster patching process, let’s examine some creative ways in which we can provide real time and summary feedback. At a high level we will see how to write data from the orchestrated process into an external database, and then use this data for reporting purposes...