I’ve been busy building out various demo scenario’s in my lab and after getting SCOM 2012 humming along, I decided to get to work on some of the cool new dashboard features. First things first… PART 1: INSTALLATION AND PRE-REQ’S What all do we need. SCOM...

One of the great new features in Windows Server 2012 is Data Deduplication.   There’s a cool tool that allows you to see what kind of savings you’d get on a particular volume.  You can see more details on dedup, including this feature here...

One of the demos that I do in my lab uses an Opalis workflow that is triggered by a SCOM rule watching the security event log on my domain controller for any changes to the domain admins group.  Once the alert gets triggered in SCOM, Opalis picks...

Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 2.0 is a managed MMC plug-in. VAMT uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to configure managed systems. A convenient command line interface (CLI) allows automated, scheduled VAMT tasks without UI interaction...

One of the first things I wanted to play with in my Windows 8 lab was the new data deduplication feature.  In my case, I decided to make a small volume and see how well it worked with VHD files.  Well, I’m happy to announce that it works pretty...