II recently blogged on installing Windows Server 8 Beta as a guest operating system in my SCVMM environment, and attempting to monitor Windows Server 8 Beta with Operations Manager 2012 RC. The next logical step was to investigate backing up Windows Server 8 Beta with Data Protection Manager 2012 RC and managing it with Configuration…
[Please note, I’m sure that this is a totally unsupported configuration]. The next thing I had to know is whether I could get the OpsMgr 2012 RC agent installed on a Windows Server 8 Beta system and see what would happen in Operations Manager. Well, here’s the results at this point: My initial installation attempt…
With this week’s release of Windows Server 8 Beta, it seemed like a good idea to see how the server beta would run in my SCVMM 2012 RC environment. I configured this server as a Windows Server 2008 R2 X64 system, and assigned it 512 mb of memory to install. Here’s the step-by-step installation of…
I just saw this today while I was on Amazon. For anyone wants to know – this is where my spare time is currently being spent (other than when I’m playing Skyrim of course). http://www.amazon.com/System-Center-Operations-Manager-Unleashed/dp/0672335913/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330013707&sr=1-1
An OpsMgr administrator I have worked with for a while reached out to me with this question today: “Our web console looks to be working fine but not all performance counters that show in in the local console show up in the web console. Is this a known issue or is there something specific I…
In preparation for the upcoming OpsMgr 2012 Unleashed agents chapter it was time to get back into Unix to test out the updated cross platform monitoring in OpsMgr 2012. As discussed in previous blog posts, I use SCVMM 2012 (currently the RC version) to manage my Hyper-V servers. For my environment I needed to have…
I believe that part of the job of MVP’s is to be the advocate for the community in terms of what the community wants to see in Microsoft products. We do this regularly through our various networks and working closely with the Microsoft product teams. For background, this is a quick summary of what’s public…
In my home network, one of my phones became locked with a passcode that nobody could remember (I will not list the name of my 2nd level technical support individual who caused this to protect the innocent). I dug around on the web and it looked like the only option I had available was to…
It’s interesting that I have developed what has become almost a level of dread when it comes to installation of gateway servers in OpsMgr. This is due to the fact that my percentage of failed initial installations for a gateway has been pretty darn high (kinda like installing reporting in the old days). For background…
During a recent Hyper-V build out in my lab I decided to try my hands at installing Hyper-V on the core version of Windows versus the full version of Windows. The specific benefits I expected from core include: (benefits taken from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee391628(v=vs.85).aspx) 1) Reduced servicing 2) Reduced management 3) Reduced attack surface 4) Less…
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