Happy Day at the Microsoft Exchange Team : ? It is my distinct pleasure to announce today the global availability of Exchange Server 2010. This has been an amazing journey from conception to launch, and the team has delivered an unprecedented line up of innovations in this release. I am incredibly proud of the team
SCCM 2007 R2 SP2 & Intel vPro Integration
Hi guys, I?ll be delivering a session at Intel?s ?Life after death using? Intel? vPro? Technology!? conference held on September 14th 2009 at Air Port City, Israel. This session will focus on integrating SCCM In-Band management capabilities with vPro Out of Band capabilities. Out of band management allows an administrator to connect to a computer’s
The full and complete list of SCCM Log Files
SCCM uses a lot of log files, it could be quite confusing finding what you need. I gathered a list of all the log files and a description of their content to make life easy. The client logs are located in the %WINDIR%\System32\CCM\Logs folder or %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\CCM\Logs (for x64 OS).The SCCM server log files are located
What’s New in VMM 2008 R2 Release Candidate
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM) is a comprehensive management solution for the virtualized data center, enabling increased physical server utilization, centralized management of virtual machine infrastructure, and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator, delegated administrator, and authorized end users. VMM 2008 can manage hosts that are running Windows Server
SCOM 2007 R2 Release Candidate (RC)
Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including: Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms Delivers monitoring across Windows, Linux and Unix servers-all through a single console Extends end to end monitoring of distributed applications to any workload running on Windows, Unix and Linux platforms Maximize availability of virtual workloads with
Seven tips & tricks for Windows 7 (Issue #2)
Microsoft?s Eitan Kirshenboim has kindly provided us more Windows 7 tips, check out this second issue: Tip 1: Put a ?Pin Up? of the Folders You Use Most. Tip 2: Double-Up Your Windows. Tip 3: Clear, Crisp Display?It?s In Your Control. Tip 4: Order and Reason for Your Taskbar. Tip 5: Taskbar Traversing. Tip
Hyper-V & SQL consolidation at Microsoft IT
A new white paper has been published that compares the options to use multiple instances of SQL without Hyper-V with having multiple virtual machines with single instances of SQL Server. Not only it looks at the different pros and cons, but also provides interesting performance information. Here’s are the topics covered in this 26-page white
New and Improved DPM Management Pack for SCOM 2007
OpsMgr 2007 has class/object based modeling of any application, and monitoring the various states changes of these objects around the four pillars – Availability, Configuration, Security and Performance. One can remotely look at various aspects of multiple DPM servers in a centralized fashion, as in the case of the DPM MP ? by giving glimpse
How To Create Certificates Valid For More Than The Default Validity Period – Step By Step Instructions
In order to create a certificate that is valid for longer than the default validity period defined in the Windows Server CA templates, there are three things which determine the validity period: The remaining lifetime of the issuing CA server The value specified in the certificate template The value specified in the CA server registry
Tools for Virtualization and System Center
Check out these direct download links to a bunch of highly usable tools that can make your life easier: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides Microsoft Deployment 2008 Toolkit Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool Sharepoint Monitoring Toolkit Service Level Dashboard Management Pack Security Compliance Management Toolkit
