I’ve been doing a lot of work with the Release Candidate of System Center Orchestrator, so it’s always interesting to see what other orchestration products are capable of.  I recently read a blog post on Creating Workflow Loops in vCenter Orchestrator...

I was inspired by Eric Gray’s recent post “ Disingenuous cost comparisons ” which purports to show all the ways that VMware costs less than Microsoft.  I thought I’d take Eric’s advice and see for myself by trying the VMware cost comparison calculator...

Back to my long neglected blog… Inspired by Adam’s post about building his own Opalis integration pack I thought I’d give it a go myself. I’ve seen the sessions at MMS, but never actually sat down to do this. I thought I’d...

One of the things that isn’t made 100% clear in the DPM documentation is what you need to do for Hyper-V VM’s that you are protecting at the Hyper-V host layer. The “ Protected Computer Software Requirements ” document on Technet tells you that you need...

In my last post on this subject I set up the cluster patching framework in Opalis. In this post I’m going to modify the policy initiation phase to use PowerShell & some text manipulation to make it more dynamic. I’d set this up originally to simply...