Today I’m beginning a series of posts on Continuous Delivery with Team Foundation Server and Windows PowerShell based on my open source project powerdelivery. The project is already in use at a business intelligence solution for a large healthcare provider. In 2011 I was working at a large client who had a hard time releasing…
A Catapult Systems client is responsible for the management of over 100 servers, 1000 workstations, and 1500+ user accounts. They previously leveraged Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Windows Software Update Services 3.0, and Symantec Endpoint Protection to maintain corporate compliance and control of their information systems. But despite having a fully implemented SCCM 2007…
Recently a Lync customer was having issues joining a Lync meeting set up by another organization. This wasn’t an environment I built from scratch, but rather I took over a pilot that had grown out of control. After some research I realized that the meeting was set up by a user hosted on Office 365-Lync…
Well, "Big Data" is here (I know, it’s been here for a while). One of the reasons I love my job so much is that when there is technology disruption, the most interesting business conversations come out. Big Data offers some green field type thinking when we realize that many of the hard business questions…
I realize this deviates from my focus on Excel, but my colleagues and I happened upon a very useful feature that answers an annoying little problem in Lync 2010, and I just had to share. J As part of the marketing team here at Catapult Systems, we are often hosting webinars and technical discussions via…
I recently installed a SQL 2008 R2 Cluster and the installed failed with these messages: The cluster resource ‘SQL Server’ could not be brought online. Error: The resource failed to come online due to the failure of one or more provider resources. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071736) This happened at the very end of the installation,…
I get this question a lot when working on the SQL Server Reporting Services platform. I think from experience I have boiled this down to some direct (albeit high level) guidance to answer this question. Use SSRS in SharePoint integrated Mode when….. (We already love SharePoint at my organization) If your organization or company is…
The Microsoft iSCSI initiator can be tricky to configure because there are so many options. More and more people are going to start using it because Windows Server 2012 now includes a built-in iSCSI target. Coupled together with the new Storage Spaces feature and you can build a low cost iSCSI SAN suitable for test…
When attempting to install Windows Server 2008 R2 on an IBM HS23 Blade, there is an error message about the disk being offline. “Windows cannot be installed on the selected disk because the disk is "offline." This error can be ignored and you can proceed with the installation. This is a known issue on IBM’s…
When a backup job using snapshot technology (like DPM) runs against Server 2012 Hyper-V, NTFS might briefly report free volume size to be 0 for a brief period. If VMMS queries free volume size and find that there is none it will pause VMs. So if VMMS is unlucky and does the query at the…
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