Stressing out with Hyper-V

infrastructure

Stressing Out with Hyper-V I’ve been spending a lot of my time recently working with Hyper-V (pretty evident based upon some of the recent blog entries, I know). In Virtual Server 2005 R2 (or VPC) if I ran very intensive applications in the guest operating systems I saw the impact on the host processor’s operating…

Blacklisting, Whitelisting and OpenDNS

infrastructure

Blacklisting, Whitelisting and OpenDNS I had been looking for a while to find a good second level of defense when dealing with blocking websites for my home environment. As background, I am taking an approach to using whitelisting of sites within my environment (see http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1119.entry for details). This works well for computers which are used…

Viewing server disk free space in OpsMgr – a simple option?

infrastructure

Viewing server disk free space in OpsMgr – a simple option?                                                  I was recently asked a great question by a co-worker of mine (thank you Joe!). “I followed your blog post (http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!936.entry) for disk capacity but it requires me to add each individual server, and each individual drive letter on each server, ex: C:\,…