So, you have an existing OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment and you have decided to use a multi-home migration to move to OpsMgr 2012. What are some key points to consider? First is to consider what upgrade options are available in System Center: Attached is the matrix of the System Center components and their deployment options…
Yesterday we held the second Office 365 International User Group meeting. I was very pleased with the meeting and especially the increased attendance. The main presentation for this meeting was around the different training model that Cloud Services brings to the table. This presentation was put together by Brett Hill (@brettHill) but due to some…
As a startup company, it was vital for 240Tutoring to find a solution that would allow them the flexibility of a fully customized solution that could be expanded in a short amount of time as their company grew. Catapult Systems presented Windows Azure and Windows SQL Azure as a flexible and easily expandable platform. Windows…
There are many custom settings available in Unattend.xml that can be used to add useful and practical touches to your Windows 7 image. We will be using the Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup_6.1.7601.17514_neutral configurations to add these custom settings to our Windows 7 image. I will be focusing on some of the recent customizations for my Windows 7 image…
Based upon my experiences with the SCVMM 2012 management pack in Operations Manager 2012, I added several ReSearch This! KB’s on this topic which are linked below: Tuning for the System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager management pack: (alert name, URL for the ReSearch This KB) VGS Not installed: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/indexId/93620/Default.aspx Host has exceeded the…
So I have been very busy moving clients to Office 365, traveling for speaking engagements (sounds much more prestigious that it sounds) and balancing a home life to be able to blog regularly. So this is a recap of numerous Office 365 (and other) updates over the last couple weeks. First off, this coming Tuesday,…
Our infrastructure team in San Antonio is implementing a private cloud solution for a national gas company of 500 employees based on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. After an architectural design session to take into account company expansion and acquisitions, the Catapult team will build and configure the server landscape and distribution architecture, leveraging existing…
Now that System Center 2012 is one “product” we’re seeing a heavier focus towards using a common back-end for the products. Microsoft has done a good (not great) job on providing a consistent set of back-end database requirements so that a single version of SQL 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 should be sufficient for all of…
Here is a script that I wrote for powering on the virtual machines in a specific order. This script creates a function named PowerOnVM. You can then call PowerOnVM with the parameters $VM and $Wait. $VM should be equal to the name of the VM you want to turn on. $Wait will give the option…
What do you do when you are falling behind on the big things in life that need to get done but there just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day? Please note – this blog article is really about a process of my own learning how to integrate writing into my life. It…
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