Catapult, a Quisitive company, is a Microsoft-focused solutions and services firm that specializes in imagining, building and sustaining digital transformation and cloud-based solutions that people love to use. Catapult has consistently been recognized as a leading Microsoft Partner with 10 Advanced Specializations and 17 Microsoft competencies. Recent accolades include 2020 MSUS Partner Award Winner Azure – DevOps, Top Microsoft 365 Security Partner for FY20, and being named a finalist of the Data Analytics 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. Catapult has offices nationwide.

Awesome plugin for Visual Studio 2010

  This is a great extension for VS 2010 released last month: Productivity Power Tools. If you’ve used Resharper, this brings several of its great features right into VS 2010. – Quick Find – Remove and Sort Imports (they stole this one wholesale from Resharper) – Solution Navigator: very cool – Solution Explorer on steroids…

VMM P2V Fails with Error 2919 Element not found

During a routing P2V operation (Physical to Virtual conversion) within System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, the operation would fail at the copy VHD step. Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the CATAUSVMM02.catapultsystems.com server. (Element not found (0x80070490)) Recommended Action Ensure the agent is installed and running.…

Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Results!!

  After enabling Dynamic Memory on 7 Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 host servers, we were able to free up 75 Gigabytes of RAM! This effectively enables us to add anywhere from 10 to 150 virtual machines depending on RAM configuration (512mb to 8196mb). We have 15 other Hyper-V servers we will be enabling dynamic memory…

Replicating Success

"Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone?" – Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi Change for the Sake of Change In my previous post, I talked about how people tend to be drawn to the visible, novel, and dramatic which distracts them from following any process…