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Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:32 PM
System Center Forum.org upgraded
Source: System Center Forum System Center Forum had upgraded their website yesterday and it looks great. They are running on Wordpress . Not sure if they were already running on Wordpress but you can see on here what’s new. One of the new features
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:04 PM
System Center Desktop Wallpaper
Source: internal A colleague of mine (André) likes to have simple clean Desktop Wallpapers and he just found a System Center Desktop Wallpaper. And I like it. Maybe you like it too. You can download it from my SkyDrive.
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Friday, August 29, 2008 1:07 PM
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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Monday, August 25, 2008 1:07 PM
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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Monday, August 18, 2008 9:07 AM
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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Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:22 AM
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
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Monday, August 11, 2008 2:59 PM
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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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:45 AM
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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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:45 PM
Savision ready for Microsoft Teched Orlando
Today I got an email from Douwe and Dennis from Savision with their first impression on TechEd Orlando. There are ready to show their product so if you have some time visit their booth. I really like their Dutch orange jackets ;-) Did you know the Dutch
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:10 PM
New System Center Branding
The System Center products have a new logo. Check out the Microsoft System Center Home Page
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:02 AM
Microsoft Product Support Lifecycle for MOM 2005
Now OpsMgr 2007 is released for almost a year you may want to know what the Product Support Lifecycle for MOM 2005 is. Those of you who are not familiar, the Microsoft Support Lifecycle is the set of policies that governs the length of support for
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:38 AM
New version of System Center Content Search Gadget
Chris Scoville has created a new version of the System Center Content Gadget. This is one of the best tools I’ve been using for OpsMgr and other System Center tools. I’ve added it to my OpsMgr Toolbox article. Changes: New System Center branding in the
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Sunday, June 01, 2008 8:03 PM
Sysinternals tools are now available via a Live service
Source: Doug Finke and Marc van Orsouw The Sysinternals tools are now accessible using a direct UNC link ( \\live.sysinternals.com\Tools\ ), so if your in need of a Sysinternals tool and you have an internet connection you can just type : CD \\live.sysinternals.com\Tools\
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:20 AM
Passed OpsMgr Configuring Exam (070-400)
Today I did my Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Configuring Exam and passed with a score of 980 points. Still room for improvement… http://twitpic.com/1lc8 I thought it was easy, but I work with the product every day and I still love it
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:57 PM
Evaluation of SCCP 2007 by Ian Blyth
Source: Ian Blyth Ian gives a clear evaluation of System Center Capacity Planner for OpsMgr 2007. “I can say now that I am very disappointed with it and can’t see me using it at all even if it is the official sizing tool.” The only thing
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