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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…
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.…
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…
Watch/Listen to the video here. In today’s episode, John Baker interviews Michael Niehaus, Senior Software Development Engineer for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. Tune in as they discuss its evolution, how it compares to WDS and System Center Configuration Manager, as well as giving us a little preview of the MDT 2012.
"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…
Microsoft recently released their MAP toolkit 6.0 Beta. More information about the Beta program can be found here.
Beta 1 of MDT 2012 has been released. You can download it on Microsoft Connect. So what’s new with MDT 2012? Here are a few key points. Support for ConfigMgr 2012 New application model support Integration with new console (no longer MMC) Support for pre-start Improved UI Additional bug fixes Full support for UEFI, 4k…
This post will cover the process on how to add a Systems Center server to the Opalis Integration Server. This applies to adding any type of System Center Server to Opalis and we will use Systems Center Operation Manager as an example. Launch the Opalis Integration Server Click on Options > System Center Operations Manager…
Launch Integration Server Right Click Integration Pack > Select Register IP with the Management Server Click Next Click Add >Open Click Next Click Finish Right Click Deploy IP to Action Server or Client Click Next Select the IP > Click Next Browse for Computer to add the integration pack Click Next Click Next Click…
The Deployment Bunny has posted another great blog post on Modifying the Lite Touch Wizard. Read the full post here. This is the second part of a story around the MDT Wizard and the Wizard editor and the saga continues, but this time it’s going to be a bit more tricky since we need to…