As anyone who works with SharePoint for a while knows, there is a sort of standard progression of farm architecture. Single Server Farm You start with a single server farm (for development or demo purposes only of course). On this server we will run all of the server roles (Web Front End, Service App,…
Michael Petersen has a really nice post on USMT 4, Hardlink and Bitlocker over on his blog. Read his full post here. I’m often asked if its possible to use the USMT 4.0 hardlinking (keep backup file on the OS Disk), in combination with bitlocker.. I guess the reason for the question is, that one…
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For those OpsMgr administrators out there this won’t be a surprise – Operations Manager has no prebuilt dashboard product. Unlike both Configuration Manager and Service Manager. For a good overview of dashboard options available for Operations Manager check out the Windows IT Pro article “Operations Manager Dashboards”. While OpsMgr 2012 will have built-in dashboard functionality…
I was reading through some posts from Bob Sutton, one of my favorite management gurus, and I ran across a post that contains one of my favorite Dilbert comic strips. Bob Sutton’s post, as well as the comments that I made on his blog, reminded me of one of my favorite topics: misused Quality Assurance…
The file the OpsMgr console is using as it’s cache is called momcache.mdb. It is stored in a user specific folder: c:\users\<profile>\appdata\local\microsoft\microsoft.mom.ui.console\ or %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\microsoft.mom.ui.console\ Good reference on this file (and redirecting it): http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2009/09/redirecting-mom-cache-file-momcachemdb.html
My colleague Chris Nackers recently posted an excellent Step by Step Guide for Extending Active Directory Schema for System Center Configuration Manager. Here’s some additional information about preparing for the process. The AD schema can be extended ahead of time before ConfigMgr is installed, at the same time as the first site server is…
Normally the Reminders window is not set as a top-most window, and it goes to the background when other windows get the focus. But a few times now I’ve found the Outlook 2010 Reminders window is stuck as the top most window, similar to Task Manager’s default behavior of "Always On Top". I don’t…
The RemoteFX documentation team has been hard at work creating topics that you can use to evaluate and deploy Microsoft RemoteFX within your environment. Following is a list of all the RemoteFX documents that were published to coincide with the Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 release. The following documents were created for…
Download the whitepaper here. Brief Description This whitepaper demonstrates why organizations should choose Microsoft® Hyper-V™ as their hypervisor when designing and implementing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution. Overview Choosing a hypervisor for deploying a VDI solution involves a number of important considerations, each of which can be fulfilled by using Microsoft’s Hyper-V 2008 R2…
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