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In part 1 of the Microsoft System Center 2012 Lab we installed System Center Virtual Machine Manager, (SCVMM) 2012 on my Windows 2008 R2 home lab server. The next step is to add the host server to SCVMM. Stay tuned because in my next post we will configure SCVMM networking. "The postings on this site…
Here’s a link to recent podcast I did on various topics including ConfigMgr 2012 (of course). http://systemcenterpodcast.libsyn.com/inside-central-8-config-mgr-has-pete-on-the-run?sf2214975=1
So at Catapult we are working on refining our offerings and programs around Office 365. We are looking into how we can introduce Office 365 to existing and new clients and how to show clients the benefit of the technology. What I would like to see from the readers of this post is what are…
Recently was working at client, we caused ourselves a slight reporting issue. We had exported all the reports from a previous site, including custom reports. When we imported those into the new site, we overwrote the stock reports. What happens when you do this is that it breaks all the built in reporting links. You…
One of the few non-technical posts I’ll make. I’m walking in the Step Out event to help support a member of my family who has diabetes. Together we can Stop Diabetes. One step at a time. I am walking and raising money for the American Diabetes Association’s signature fundraising walk, Step Out: Walk to Stop…
Time to finally transfer my notes from two big yellow stickies to a blog post. Basically, while trying to do a build & capture of Windows 7 SP1 recently, I was trying to apply every available (to my knowledge) client hotfix to the ConfigMgr agent. I was using Michael Murgolo’s hotfix script to automatically populate…
One of my previous posts has been incredibly popular. I worked with Michael Murgolo on testing a great ConfigMgr hotfix that would automatically apply hotfixes during a ConfigMgr OSD Task Sequence. Matt Benninge has created a new version of the hotfix script with some very nice feature adds. Matt added the following features: Hotfixes are…
So a couple months ago I won an Acer Iconia Tab W500, http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/iconia-tab-w500 at a Microsoft Delta Force Ranger event for Office 365. Well with the release of the Windows 8 Developer preview I just had to install in on my tablet to test it out. So far it has been very good. The new…
Windows 8 preview hasn’t even been out 24 hours yet and Johan Arwidmark is already putting up blog posts! Read his full post here.
My current engagement has me creating Distributed Applications (DA) for things like SharePoint, in-house Line Of Business Applications and Messaging. For this organization Messaging means Exchange, RightFax, Blackberry, and OCS. We are rolling up health for all of those Enterprise Messaging components into a DA enabling at a glance state view of overall Messaging health along…