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July 2009 - Posts

Dynamic Provisioning with VMM: Proxy, Windows Updates, and Scripts
In our environment, there are two things that are critical to success of an environment that is dynamically built from scratch – Updates & Internet connectivity. This might seem odd since most would believe that we would utilize WSUS & the Software Read More...
Configuring Servers for deployment as a Configuration Manager Distribution Point (DP)
In order to go from nothing to a finished, completed installation of a System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) client services role such as a Distribution Point (DP) requires that an administrator configures the future DP server automatically.  Read More...
Building a “Sample” SCOM Management Pack for Dynamically Building Virtual Machines based on Performance of physical or virtual machines
In today’s post, I will focus on how I worked with our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) team to build the actual infrastructure and setup alerting for our infrastructure to ensure that if our Configuration Manager Distribution Points (DPs) are Read More...
Create New VM by Kicking off VMM Console from using Command\Batch File
As many of you know, I’m focusing a lot of my individual time on proofing out a concept that I have termed “Dynamic Provisioning.” The idea is that you move away from manually managing your infrastructure and focus more on your “performance” metrics and Read More...
Using Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2’s Compatibility Mode
If you are like us, we are always on the cutting edge (what do you expect – we work for Microsoft <g>) and because of this we have to often find unusual methods to work around the fact that OEM’s are not always “up to speed” and releasing installers Read More...
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