One of the cool new features in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 was the addition of Generation 1 and Generation 2 virtual machines. Benefits I’ve seen listed for Generation 2 virtual machines include a faster boot time, fewer devices, and boot from SCSI virtual drive. The idea is interesting, but I was curious…
Effective this year MMS will be merging with TechEd (this was announced at http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/2013/10/01/what-s-next-for-mms.aspx). This may be a tough integration as MMS has a long history and an existing culture. I have been pondering this for a little while and came up with some suggestions which I will summarize below as my MMS 5×5 plan.…
In order to run SMLets on a computer it must have some of the SCSM console DLLs installed. Anton Gritsenko wrote this great article about how to install these without the need to install the SCSM console. However, due to some of the changes made to Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2, these steps…
I have seen some confusion in the social media circles around support for Windows XP and Office suite support. First the easy one, Windows XP and Office 2003 will no longer be supported by Microsoft after April 8, 2014. How will this affect users on Windows XP who utilize Office 365? The short answer is…
During an upgrade from Windows 2012 to Windows 2012 R2 I ran across a setting called “Availability” for the VM. High availability is available in a host cluster and is documented at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc967323.aspx “Highly available virtual machines, also known as HAVMs, can easily be migrated to a different virtual machine host in a failover cluster…
With the release of Windows 2012 R2, my primary goal was to upgrade my lab environment to gain the new features available in Windows 2012 R2 (including tiered storage, enhanced deduplication, generation 2 vm’s and dynamic memory enhancements). My first upgrade was for a single server upgrade for my SMB file share server and Hyper-V…
I have been consulting with companies about how to build SharePoint Intranet sites for almost a decade now, and the conversation usually goes something like this: Customer: I want to build an intranet because my people need to accomplish some specific tasks Me: Well, building an Intranet is like building a house. You need to…
The following blog post was written by Brett Boone. Thank you for sharing this with the community Brett! The following blog posts discusses the process to upgrade from Operations Manager 2012 SP1 to Operations Manager 2012 R2. This blog post also shows the steps required to integrate the new System Center Advisor functionality available with…
I recently ran into an issue where a user had uploaded an Outlook Message file to a web application. The users were reporting an error that each time they tried to click on a link to the .MSG file, the web browser would display an error message that the file had been moved or…
If you have been using Operations Manager 2012 for a little while you have probably had that moment when you log into your servers on a Monday morning and see a plethora of new warning alerts related to fragmentation levels on drives. This is one of those items that generates a lot of alerts and…
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