The SharePoint Connections conference in San Antonio was well-organized and the speakers were top-notch. I learned a LOT and I can’t put all of that in a blog post but I’ve narrowed it down to 7 things I wanted to pass along… How to insert sample text into a Microsoft Word documentGreat tip for testing…
During a routing P2V operation (Physical to Virtual conversion) within System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, the operation would fail at the copy VHD step. Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the CATAUSVMM02.catapultsystems.com server. (Element not found (0x80070490)) Recommended Action Ensure the agent is installed and running.…
After enabling Dynamic Memory on 7 Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 host servers, we were able to free up 75 Gigabytes of RAM! This effectively enables us to add anywhere from 10 to 150 virtual machines depending on RAM configuration (512mb to 8196mb). We have 15 other Hyper-V servers we will be enabling dynamic memory…
In Operations Manager alerts can be generated by either a monitor or a rule (for background information on this see “The Rule of the Monitor”). Alerts which are generated by rules do not impact health state, and they will not auto-close themselves. This results in a situations where there may be alerts in your environment…
Watch/Listen to the video here. In today’s episode, John Baker interviews Michael Niehaus, Senior Software Development Engineer for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. Tune in as they discuss its evolution, how it compares to WDS and System Center Configuration Manager, as well as giving us a little preview of the MDT 2012.
"Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone?" – Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi Change for the Sake of Change In my previous post, I talked about how people tend to be drawn to the visible, novel, and dramatic which distracts them from following any process…
Microsoft recently released their MAP toolkit 6.0 Beta. More information about the Beta program can be found here.
Beta 1 of MDT 2012 has been released. You can download it on Microsoft Connect. So what’s new with MDT 2012? Here are a few key points. Support for ConfigMgr 2012 New application model support Integration with new console (no longer MMC) Support for pre-start Improved UI Additional bug fixes Full support for UEFI, 4k…
The Expression Blend SDK has some interesting controls in it that you can easily miss if you’re not poking around the SDK namespaces. The one I’m going to talk about right now is called Callout. The Callout control is a content control that renders itself with an optional arrow anchored at a given point. What…
You get what should be a really insightful whitepaper! Pete Zerger and I teamed up with Alec King from Veeam to contribute to a whitepaper called “Best Practices for Monitoring VMware with SCOM”. I really enjoyed working with both Pete and Alec and hope to do so again soon! I’m not sure how they determined…
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