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August 2008 - Posts

New personal website

Yesterday I reinstalled my personal website and deleted my old weblog ( http://weblog.stranger.nl ).  I used to run my old weblog on Drupal but after starting a new weblog on Technet I didn’t update my personal weblog anymore. Now I created
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Dell video on integrating SCVMM and OpsMgr 2007

Source: Virtualboy Matt McSpirit blogged about how you could run ESX 3.5/ESXi on a VMware Workstation for testing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Which I also posted on more than an year ago, but with different versions ;-) But he also tells
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PowerShell Dashboard is available

Source: DevInfra-US PowerShell Dashboard is a modular IT administration web portal based on Dropthings . The goal of this project is to present a mashup of several open source solutions linked to PowerShell that gives ability for IT people to develop
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Webcast: Microsoft's Investments in Virtualization and Cross-Platform Management

Source: NEXUS SC: The System Center Team Blog Brad Anderson, GM of the Management Services Division, talks with us about his perspective on Microsoft's developments and directions in the virtualization and x-plat spaces, and where System Center fits in.
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Vyatta Virtual Router on Hyper-V

I’m currently building a new demo/test environment on my Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V server. And I wanted to have a Virtual Router running on Hyper-V which should handle the routing between the virtual networks on Hyper-V. First some background info on
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Finding scripts in MP with PowerShell

Have you ever wanted to know which scripts are being using in a Management Pack? I did ;-) You would normally use the MPViewer from Boris Yanushpolsky to have a look into the MP. But the MPViewer does not show you a list of all the scripts being used

Operations Manager with Barry Shilmover on UGTV

Source: UGTV (User Group Television) Because of my Achillus Tendor Rupture I can’t do much except watching tv (the Olympics) or movies on my laptop. That's why I stumbled on a webcast from the User Group Television (UGTV) in which Barry Shilmover demoes
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System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions Quick Start Guide

Source: Microsoft Download Center You can now download the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions Quick Start Guide from Microsoft Download Center This Quick Start Guide contains the release notes, system requirements, and installation
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Dutch System Center Event “Meer dan Beheer 2008”

On September 12th 2008, the Dutch System Center User Group , INOVATIV (the System Center specialists) and Secure Vantage , will organize the System Center event of the year: " Meer dan beheer 2008 " in The Netherlands. Dutch speaking professionals
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Busy weekend

It has been a busy weekend for me which ended not so good for me. On Friday my sister got married and that same evening I got an Achilles Tendon Rupture during my soccer practice. I heard a bang an felt a sudden sharp pain as if someone has whacked me
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OpsManJam Tip for SharePoint Dummies

I already blogged about the new OpsManJam website where you can find unofficial management packs, management pack authoring tutorials and guidance, featured articles on everything OpsManager 2007, command shell scripts, and more.  Kevin Holman also

OpsMgr 2007 Cross Platform Extensions Beta Update

Source: Microsoft Connect There is a new Beta update for OpsMgr 2007 Cross Platform Extensions on Microsoft Connect available. New in this beta: OpsMgr x64 support Gateway role support IBM AIX 5.3
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Autopilot: Automatic Data Center Management

Source: Twitter My colleague Daniele Muscetta posted a Tweet about how much of OpsMgr is used for AutoPilot. Last year, Michael Isard of Microsoft Research wrote a paper entitled Autopilot: Automatic Data Center Management which describes the technology
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New OpsMgr 2007 and MOM 2005 MP’s available

Source: MPNotifier Windows 2008 Network Policy Server MP for MOM 2005. Release date: 8/5/2008. http://tinyurl.com/5rlgot Deployment Service MP for OpsMgr 2007. Release date: 8/5/2008. http://tinyurl.com/6g8z46

Back from holiday

I’m back from a long holiday to the South of France (Port-Grimaud). We had great sunny and warm weather and spend quite some time at the beach. I didn’t check my (work) email and only did some twittering during my holiday. So if you want to know what
 
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