System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Beta – T2R2’s Thoughts With Hyper-V now being released, it seems like time to start working with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM). As a background SCVMM 2008 is in beta (available for download at connect.microsoft.com) and now provides support for Hyper-V in addition to Virtual Server 2005…
QuickTricks: Hyper-V Manager Want a quick way to get into the Hyper-V manager without opening the Server Manager / Roles / Hyper-V? The msc file for Hyper-V is located under c:\program files\Hyper-V by default. If you go to start/run and run that (c:\program files\Hyper-V\virtmgmt.msc) it will open directly to the Hyper-V manager. You can also…
Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 issue on Domain Controllers Be very careful when deploying DPM to multiple domain controllers in an environment. Lesson Learned: When installing Data Protection Manager (DPM) agents onto Active Directory Domain Controllers (DC), the following needs to occur. 1. Agent MUST be installed on each DC, ONE AT A TIME. 2.…
QuickTricks: Hyper-V Guests booting to PXE To boot to PXE in Hyper-V from an existing Guest operating system: Shut down the virtual machine. Add a legacy network adapter for the Virtual. Change the boot order to have the legacy network adapter at the top of the boot order. Start the Guest operating system. To boot…
A few of us have been working on a simple way to provide kiosk functionality for conference rooms. The goal was to provide a kiosk which displays the calendar entries for the conference room. Sounds pretty simple right? The original plan was: Configure auto-logon on the system to log in as the calendar user account.…
I needed to be able to export the information from the “All Systems” query in Configuration Manager so that I could chop it up in Excel. I specifically needed to get the workstation/server name and the IP address information so that I could determine what systems would be receiving the ConfigMgr agent. Export the…
Looking for a query to identify what systems are virtuals in ConfigMgr? Check this out! select SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Manufacturer, SMS_R_System.SMSAssignedSites, SMS_R_System.IPAddresses, SMS_R_System.IPSubnets, SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion, SMS_R_System.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_System.LastLogonUserDomain, SMS_R_System.LastLogonUserName, SMS_R_System.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_System.ResourceId, SMS_R_System.ResourceType, SMS_R_System.NetbiosName from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Manufacturer in ("VMware, Inc.","Microsoft Corporation") This identifies systems which are running in Hyper-V or VMWare, and…
I needed to quickly track down what Management Servers my OpsMgr agents were reporting to. There were some good ways written up to track this down but for a quick way I recommend one of these two: In PowerShell run: get-agent | ft name, primarymanagementservername This provides a list of all agents and who their…
On our new OpsMgr 2007 environment running on Windows 2008, I was unable to log into the Operations Manager console unless I used the credentials of the account which was used to install the system. This was throwing me for a loop because the account I was trying to log into the Operations Manager console…
The November edition of TechNet magazine is now available online at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/default.aspx?pr=blog. This edition includes three articles that I consider to be especially interesting: Monitoring Windows Server 2008 with OpsMgr 2007 by Pete Zerger. Granular Targeting In Operations Manager 2007 by Steve Rachui. Using Configuration Manager with Windows Server 2008 by Cameron Fuller. This is…
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