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Not all Orchestration tools are created equal

I’ve been doing a lot of work with the Release Candidate of System Center Orchestrator, so it’s...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 11/29/2011

Disingenuous Cost Comparisons

I was inspired by Eric Gray’s recent post “Disingenuous cost comparisons” which purports to show all...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 06/16/2011

Controlling HP ILO with Opalis

Back to my long neglected blog… Inspired by Adam’s post about building his own Opalis...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 05/04/2011

Hotfixes for DPM Protected Hyper-V Guests

One of the things that isn’t made 100% clear in the DPM documentation is what you need to do for...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 05/10/2010

server cluster patching with opalis – part 2

In my last post on this subject I set up the cluster patching framework in Opalis. In this post I’m...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 05/03/2010

Server Cluster patching with Opalis – Part 1

I’m using this post to document my experiments with Opalis.  One of the things I’ve been...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 04/19/2010

Exercising live migration

One of the scenarios that we had running at TechEd NZ was a continuous live migration between two...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 10/10/2009

Application Virtualisation – Agent or Agentless Part II?

In my previous post I talked about some of the advantages of using agent based technology to deliver...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 06/11/2009

Application Virtualisation – Agent or Agentless?

One of the things I sometimes hear from my customers when we’re talking about Application...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 06/04/2009

Save money managing your virtual hosts

As I said in my post below, I read a lot of blogs.  I’ve been meaning to write a response to a...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 05/27/2009

Rethinking the guest?

I love working in the IT industry.  Apart from being involved in an industry that is constantly...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 05/27/2009

Monitoring service levels in ops Mgr r2

I’ve just been playing with the new Service Level Dashboard for System Center Operations Manager...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 05/24/2009

PowerPoint from DPM Events

For those that want them, here are the PowerPoint presentations from the DPM Unplugged events that...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 03/22/2009

OEM Deployment Packs for ConfigMgr

Like I said before, I don't like to use this blog to simply mirror product announcements (although...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 03/04/2009

Subselect syntax in Config Mgr

I'm mostly posting this as a reminder to myself, but someone may find it useful. This is the...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 03/04/2009

User initiated F12 machine rebuilds with Config Mgr OSD

One of the things I often get asked by customers is how do they make it possible for a user to...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 03/04/2009

Upcoming New Zealand DPM Events

I made a decision when I started this blog to only use it for original content and not just repost...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 03/04/2009

Windows 7 & Error 80072ee2

I upgraded my home laptop to the beta of Windows 7 this weekend, and when I ran Windows Update I...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 01/12/2009

strange virtual app error message in config mgr

I’ve recently been working in a proof of concept environment streaming some virtual applications...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 12/11/2008

Unplugged MDT Session Deck

Here is the deck from the "Deploying Windows Vista with MDT" session that I've run at Technet...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 11/16/2008

Hyper-V with Server Core - too hard for VMware to use?

There was an video posted recently showing the difference between setting up Hyper-V with Windows...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 09/28/2008

Virtualisation, Time Sync & Domain Controllers

Looks like there is an issue with VMware and their update 2 for ESX 3.5 where when the date gets to...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 08/12/2008

Configuration Manager PXE Service Point Errors

I recently had a look at an issue with the Configuration Manager PXE Service Point running on a test...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 07/31/2008

Extending System Center Operations Manager Classes & Discovery

One of the things I've recently been working on is a question asked by a partner - how do I get...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 07/23/2008

Hyper-V: Revert & Apply

I was just talking to one of my colleagues about the difference between Revert & Apply when...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 06/17/2008

Just a bunch of things that caught my eye this morning: Hyper-V Failover Clustering Options:...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 06/17/2008

Sytem Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Patch for Hyper-V RC1

The patch for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 that allows it to manage Hyper-V RC1...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 06/09/2008

Windows 2008 RODC Compatability Pack

When you're implementing Windows Server 2008 RODC's there are a couple of compatability issues that...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 06/09/2008

SMSExec fails after SP1 Upgrade with error 00000080

I'd just finished upgrading my Config Mgr lab to SP1, and found that as soon as I'd restarted my...

Author: Stu Fox [MSNZ] Date: 06/05/2008