Hyper-V, OpsMgr and Unix? – Part 1 To prepare for a presentation at TechEd 2008 and to test out the new functionality available within multiple of Microsoft products, I decided to spend some time working with Hyper-V and seeing how it does with running Unix Operating Systems. My ultimate goal was to provide an environment…
TechEd 2008 Session – Extending Operations Manager 2007 TechEd ITPro 2008 is scheduled from June 10th to the 13th in Orlando (http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2008/itpro/about/default.mspx). With all of the new updates occurring especially in the System Center product line this should be an incredible conference. My session was based upon the session by the same name that…
Windows Server 2008, Windows Firewall and SQL 2005 Several of us were building out a POC Configuration Manager 2007 environment which had a single ConfigMgr server and a separate SQL 2005 database (shared with Operations Manager). The ConfigMgr server was running on ConfigMgr 2007 SP1/Windows Server 2008 and the SQL Server was running SQL 2005…
SQL Reporting Services error browsing localhost/reports “The XML page cannot be displayed” I ran into a new issue during a recent installation of System Center Operations Manager 2007 on Windows 2003 with SQL 2005 SP2. I’m not sure if it was the order of what prerequisites were applied, or some other spatial anomaly, but the…
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? 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:\,…
Adding the first Windows 2008 DC running Server Core to a Windows 2003 Domain In preparation for an environment where we will be running a mixed Windows 2003/2008 domain I was running through some tests to see how to get the first 2008 domain controller installed (always better to find out this way versus having…
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…
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.…
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…
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