Comparing Generation 1 and Generation 2 virtual machines
One of the cool new features in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 was the addition of Generation 1…
MMS and TechEd
Effective this year MMS will be merging with TechEd (this was announced at http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/2013/10/01/what-s-next-for-mms.aspx). This may be a tough integration…
Install SMLets on Windows Server 2012 without SCSM Console
In order to run SMLets on a computer it must have some of the SCSM console DLLs installed. Anton…
Office 365 and Office Pro Plus What you need to know
I have seen some confusion in the social media circles around support for Windows XP and Office suite support. First…
How to change a virtual machine from high availability to normal availability and back
During an upgrade from Windows 2012 to Windows 2012 R2 I ran across a setting called “Availability” for the VM.…
Converting a Hyper-V cluster from Windows 2012 to Windows 2012 R2 step by step (upgrading to 2012 R2 series)
With the release of Windows 2012 R2, my primary goal was to upgrade my lab environment to gain the…
Should Top Down Intranet Design Be Dead?
I have been consulting with companies about how to build SharePoint Intranet sites for almost a decade now, and the…
Upgrading Operations Manager from 2012 SP1 to 2012 R2 step by step (upgrading to 2012 R2 series)
The following blog post was written by Brett Boone. Thank you for sharing this with the community Brett! The following…
Unable to Open Outlook Message File in Web Browser (.MSG)
I recently ran into an issue where a user had uploaded an Outlook Message file to a web application.…
Automated defragmentation using OpsMgr for Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 (#SCOM, #SYSCTR, #WinServ, #PowerShell)
If you have been using Operations Manager 2012 for a little while you have probably had that moment when you…