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Bringing sexy back to management...
Not all Orchestration tools are created equal
I’ve been doing a lot of work with the Release Candidate of System Center Orchestrator, so it’s...
Date: 11/29/2011
Disingenuous Cost Comparisons
I was inspired by Eric Gray’s recent post “Disingenuous cost comparisons” which purports to show all...
Date: 06/16/2011
Controlling HP ILO with Opalis
Back to my long neglected blog… Inspired by Adam’s post about building his own Opalis...
Date: 05/04/2011
Hotfixes for DPM Protected Hyper-V Guests
One of the things that isn’t made 100% clear in the DPM documentation is what you need to do for...
Date: 05/10/2010
server cluster patching with opalis – part 2
In my last post on this subject I set up the cluster patching framework in Opalis. In this post I’m...
Date: 05/03/2010
Server Cluster patching with Opalis – Part 1
I’m using this post to document my experiments with Opalis. One of the things I’ve been...
Date: 04/19/2010
Exercising live migration
One of the scenarios that we had running at TechEd NZ was a continuous live migration between two...
Date: 10/10/2009
Application Virtualisation – Agent or Agentless Part II?
In my previous post I talked about some of the advantages of using agent based technology to deliver...
Date: 06/11/2009
Application Virtualisation – Agent or Agentless?
One of the things I sometimes hear from my customers when we’re talking about Application...
Date: 06/04/2009
Save money managing your virtual hosts
As I said in my post below, I read a lot of blogs. I’ve been meaning to write a response to a...
Date: 05/27/2009
Rethinking the guest?
I love working in the IT industry. Apart from being involved in an industry that is constantly...
Date: 05/27/2009
Monitoring service levels in ops Mgr r2
I’ve just been playing with the new Service Level Dashboard for System Center Operations Manager...
Date: 05/24/2009
PowerPoint from DPM Events
For those that want them, here are the PowerPoint presentations from the DPM Unplugged events that...
Date: 03/22/2009
OEM Deployment Packs for ConfigMgr
Like I said before, I don't like to use this blog to simply mirror product announcements (although...
Date: 03/04/2009
Subselect syntax in Config Mgr
I'm mostly posting this as a reminder to myself, but someone may find it useful. This is the...
Date: 03/04/2009
User initiated F12 machine rebuilds with Config Mgr OSD
One of the things I often get asked by customers is how do they make it possible for a user to...
Date: 03/04/2009
Upcoming New Zealand DPM Events
I made a decision when I started this blog to only use it for original content and not just repost...
Date: 03/04/2009
Windows 7 & Error 80072ee2
I upgraded my home laptop to the beta of Windows 7 this weekend, and when I ran Windows Update I...
Date: 01/12/2009
strange virtual app error message in config mgr
I’ve recently been working in a proof of concept environment streaming some virtual applications...
Date: 12/11/2008
Unplugged MDT Session Deck
Here is the deck from the "Deploying Windows Vista with MDT" session that I've run at Technet...
Date: 11/16/2008
Hyper-V with Server Core - too hard for VMware to use?
There was an video posted recently showing the difference between setting up Hyper-V with Windows...
Date: 09/28/2008
Virtualisation, Time Sync & Domain Controllers
Looks like there is an issue with VMware and their update 2 for ESX 3.5 where when the date gets to...
Date: 08/12/2008
Configuration Manager PXE Service Point Errors
I recently had a look at an issue with the Configuration Manager PXE Service Point running on a test...
Date: 07/31/2008
Extending System Center Operations Manager Classes & Discovery
One of the things I've recently been working on is a question asked by a partner - how do I get...
Date: 07/23/2008
Hyper-V: Revert & Apply
I was just talking to one of my colleagues about the difference between Revert & Apply when...
Date: 06/17/2008
Interesting Links 2008-06-18
Just a bunch of things that caught my eye this morning: Hyper-V Failover Clustering Options:...
Date: 06/17/2008
Sytem Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Patch for Hyper-V RC1
The patch for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 that allows it to manage Hyper-V RC1...
Date: 06/09/2008
Windows 2008 RODC Compatability Pack
When you're implementing Windows Server 2008 RODC's there are a couple of compatability issues that...
Date: 06/09/2008
SMSExec fails after SP1 Upgrade with error 00000080
I'd just finished upgrading my Config Mgr lab to SP1, and found that as soon as I'd restarted my...
Date: 06/05/2008