I’ve released a version of the Visual Studio extension for using powerdelivery on Chocolatey. This extension allows you to connect to Team Foundation Servers, see which builds are present in each of your environments (Dev, Test, Production etc.), open the appropriate scripts and config files for developing the pipeline, and kickoff builds. To install it,…
During a recent client engagement we found that one of the built-in views for Operations Manager does not appear to work in the out-of-the-box configuration. The "Synchronization Performance View" in the Operations Manager console does not display any performance counters. The screenshot below shows this view which is part of the Data Warehouse folder in…
This post is inspired by a question submitted on my previous post: Content Distribution: The Myth. The question was about how ConfigMgr determines if files are different when deciding whether or not to replicate them to distribution points. Specifically, the requestor wanted to know whether a simple name change to a file would cause ConfigMgr…
As most of you know Office 365 and its services are updated on a monthly and quarterly release cycle. With last month’s SharePoint and Exchange conference Microsoft has continued to tell the world that new features and functionality will come to Office 365 first and then, after some time, come to the on-premises versions on…
If you are working with Operations Manager and you want to use it on a mobile platform or through a non-Silverlight web interface check out the series of blog posts entitled "Taking OpsMgr with me". The series links are below with products highlights so you can quickly identify which potential solution you would like to…
For the last several months I have been on a quest to migrate from my laptop onto my Surface 2 RT for my daily work requirements to avoid lugging as much gear with me on a daily basis. During this process I’ve found several items that I had to develop workarounds to handle on my…
On March 4th, 2014, Microsoft announced the availability of integrating on-premise File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) file server with the Azure Rights Management service using the Azure RMS Connector. http://blogs.technet.com/b/rms/archive/2014/03/04/windows-server-fci-file-classification-now-supports-azure-rms.aspx “FCI refers to the File Classification Infrastructure, a capability in Windows Server-based File Servers using the File Server Resource Manager feature which enables the server to…
A quick post to dispel a common ConfigMgr myth about content distribution. The functionality in question is what happens when you change the source location of a package (or any content since they’re all technically packages on the back-end)? I’ve seen it stated multiple times by multiple folks that ConfigMgr will re-copy all of the…
Most of the below information is cobbled together from a couple of TechNet pages, a blog post or two, presentations I’ve seen over the years, conversations I’ve had with others, forum posts and experience — there’s just no one definitive source with a product as big as ConfigMgr that also relies on another full product…
Enabling Hyper-V between two workgroup servers requires issuing self-signed certificates with makecert.exe and a registry key to bypass the revocation check. The reason why makecert is required is because the certificate Enhanced Key Usage must support both Client and Server authentication, and the default IIS certificate CSR wizard does not include the client EKU.…
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