June 2009 - Posts
In today’s post, I thought I would share with you some XML that drives some of our dynamic provisioning. The power of dynamic provisioning is found in taking a base image of a Server operating system that has nothing enabled and customizing it using the
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For users of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (or R2), you might put yourself in a position where you can’t seem to get rid of a virtual machine and every attempt fails. I recently ran into this situation and got so frustrated that I actually
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I spent most of my secondary schooling fearing the library. I didn’t want nor have time to read as I was busy socializing and when I wasn’t at school I didn’t want to think about reading. Fast forward a number of years and you will find that, oddly, I’m
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The primary thing that took some digging up when starting to use System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 was understanding of Network Locations & Tags. There is a great blog on this topic but I want to make sure that we extend this a bit taking
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A few months ago I was scrambling around trying to locate documentation on this feature called “VLAN” trunking. You see, we had this environment that we did our engineering testing in that consisted of multiple VLANs all serving various purposes and we
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The one feature in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 that goes a long way to making life much simpler for environments who focus on provisioning a lot is the disabling of SSL transfers. The overhead to transferring over SSL is not
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In today’s post, I will focus on pulling the final piece together of this 4-part series titled “ConfigMgr 2007 Distribution Points Load Testing.” Why is this topic even important? This, i hope, is rather obvious but in case it isn’t let me share why it
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The last variable in the load testing scenario is the actual creation of your stress tests using a Web tester. DP downloads from clients can be initiated via Server Message Block (SMB) or HTTP but the default is to use HTTP in ConfigMgr 2007. The next
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As mentioned yesterday, CertPicker assembly or console requires that certificates already be present for your environment and in a folder in .pfx format. Without these certificates, one wouldn’t get very far using CertPicker so Part II of this multi-series
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