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As you can tell, I’m pretty active in following one of my favorite HOT products released by my division here at Microsoft – System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). VMM 2008 R2 was recently released and with it comes some exciting new capabilities
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In today’s post, I thought I would share some insight into how to effectively migrate to Storage Area Network’s (SAN) after you’ve already got an SCVMM environment up and running. You found yourself with several Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V hosts
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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If your like me, you have a day job and that day job consists of meetings that are ramblings of this or that and sometimes even meetings that plan other meetings (oh, these are painful). The true joy of my day is when I can close my door and just let
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Getting Started At Microsoft IT, we are beginning the process of running our ConfigMgr infrastructure on Hyper-V (virtualized) and we are starting to invest some energy in architecting our future data center in a way to ensure we are cost effective yet
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