It’s hard to believe, but it’s not too long until SCU 2014! My first road trip (other than SCU DACH of course!) is to this year’s home for SCU: Houston Texas! I’ll be at the Houston HASMUG event tomorrow. If you are in town stop by to check out the presentation and bring with your…
The following is the results of my lab environment’s upgrade of my first Hyper-V host from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2. The following is the step-by-step experiences that I had upgrading my first host system to Windows Server 2012 R2. To start the installation I mounted the ISO for Windows Server 2012…
After you install Service Management Automation (SMA) there are two groups created on the SMA server. There are the MgmtSvc Operators and smaAdminGroup groups. The MgmtSvc Operator group provide access the Windows Azure Pack Admin Site. The smaAdminGroup provides administrative access to Service Management Automation. As a best practice, I suggest creating Active Directory groups…
There is a whole slew of updated management packs which Microsoft has released. Information on the recent round of updated management packs is available at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16174.microsoft-management-packs.aspx. The summary of October updated management packs includes: SQL Server 6.4.1.0 10/14/2013 System Center 2012 Service Manager 7.5.3079.0 10/18/2013 System Center 2012 R2 Service Reporting 7.2.68.0 10/18/2013 Windows…
Service Management Automation (SMA) is included with System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2. SMA is a Windows PowerShell workflow engine build on Windows Azure Pack. It allows you to construct, run, and manage PowerShell based runbooks to integrate, orchestrate, and automate IT business processes. Even though it runs on Windows Azure Pack, you do not…
I have been on the road for basically the last 10 weeks and this week is my last week of heavy travel. I have been just swamped with the travel and trying to keep up with my normal job duties as well so unfortunately an October meeting is not going to happen. I have scheduled…
I recommend that you always activate you windows install. However, in some lab and test environments you may not be able to activate right away. With Windows 8.1 you are not able to change the lock screen picture or setup the lock screen slideshow until you activate it. However, I have found a way that…
The following is the results of my lab environment’s upgrade from Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 to Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2. Please pardon any typos and the lack of polish on this blog post – my goal is to get the information out quickly based upon what I’ve seen so far. The first step…
From the outside this is an extremely logical question to ask an existing Microsoft MVP. If they are an MVP that means that somehow they got there and therefore they should know the process and others could follow the same process. There are several reasons however why this isn’t an easy question to answer: Each…
After an extremely bad co-presentation early on in my public speaking career I made the decision that I would not co-present again. By not co-presenting, the success or failure of the presentation was squarely on my shoulders – win or lose. Co-presenting is more work than doing a presentation on your own. This is counter-intuitive…
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