In my lab environment I am running Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V systems and managing them with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Beta. I had been having issues with loss of connectivity to the Hyper-V hosts and my VMM service. I found that the SCVMMAgent and vmms services were failing occasionally and then communication…
This isn’t my normal OpsMgr type blog post so for my OpsMgr colleagues out there feel free to skip past this one unless you are interested in the topic. Today’s post discusses the lessons that I learned as an IT geek attempting to upgrade my home television service by replacing the in-house antenna I had…
Today I got a chance to take my first hands-on look at the new Windows 8 tablet from Microsoft the Surface RT. My expectations were pretty low because most of what I had read had talked about how there was no software for the RT version and that overall it wasn’t a great experience. So,…
IMHO, The hardest problems to solve are those that are intermittent in nature. We need to reproduce a problem in order to test our fixes. If the problem is not happening, then we can’t easily determine whether a fix will work. We also need to validate ALL assumptions. To illustrate the point, I will use…
A data loss prevention company recently engaged a Microsoft partner for an Office 365 implementation. Unfortunately for the client, the partner sent in a SharePoint consultant who was not at all fluent in Office 365, and took six months to complete a project that should have been done in two weeks. After a long trial…
Today I was joining a Con Call on Lync 2013 (which is awesome BTW) and I noticed that while it was negotiating the connection (I was running on a WiMax HotSpot) I got this hilarious message. I hope this is in the RTM, and I hope that they have other pithy sayings like this one.…
The following are the steps and links associated with building an all-in-one OpsMgr 2012 environment. This blog post specifically was written using Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2012 environment. Please note that running Operations Manager 2012 (RTM) running on Windows Server 2012 is NOT a supported configuration. Why am I trying this when I know…
I recently blogged on the process to install a new domain controller in Windows 2012 (available here). As part of addition of a few of my new Windows 2012 domain controllers I accidentally installed a domain controller as datacenter edition of Windows Server 2012 instead of standard edition. To address this situation I decided to…
It has been a busy several days for Microsoft and more busy days on the way. On October 11th Microsoft announced that the New Office has reached RTM (Release to Manufacturing) milestone. This was not just for the Office 2013 suite of applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc) but for the entire Office family; Exchange…
To start the process of creating a wireframe, launch Microsoft Visio. For those that do not know if you have Visio installed, you can check for the application under Microsoft Office folder in your Programs list or within Control Panel > Programs and Features. Figure 1: Microsoft Windows Start Menu Once the application has been…
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