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...

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...

One of the things I've recently been working on is a question asked by a partner - how do I get extra information about my machines into Operations Manager? If you're not familiar with extending Operations Manager and using Classes & Discovery, it...

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 was just talking to one of my colleagues about the difference between Revert & Apply when using the Hyper-V management console. They are almost the same thing, just that Revert is a special case of Apply. Apply is used on any snapshot that you want...