There was an video posted recently showing the difference between setting up Hyper-V with Windows Server Core, and setting up ESX3i. Mike DiPetrillo posted an interesting comment to the effect that the commands that were entered were net new for Windows...

I recently had a look at an issue with the Configuration Manager PXE Service Point running on a test environment of mine. I couldn't get any of my operating system images to deploy - in fact I couldn't get the PXE boot to complete successfully. In the...

I'd just finished upgrading my Config Mgr lab to SP1, and found that as soon as I'd restarted my machine, SMS_EXECUTIVE started to fail about 30 seconds or so after starting. I didn't get a lot of information to know this was happening, apart from the...

I upgraded my home laptop to the beta of Windows 7 this weekend, and when I ran Windows Update I kept getting error 80072ee2 in the windowsupdate.log. It's a good idea to run windows update when you've done a fresh install of Windows 7 as it picks up...

I’ve just been playing with the new Service Level Dashboard for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.  It’s a great improvement on the first version, and it’s pretty straightforward to set up.  I thought I’d document the steps I took to...