Orchestrated Chaos

Hyper-V on Win2k8 Core

2011-04-29T18:55:55Z

If you have to configure this, do yourself a favor and stop by here first. Save yourself some searching and heading in trying to figure out permissions when trying to connect the management console, particularly when both machines are in workgroups (you lab, for instance)....(read more)

Cats

2011-04-29T16:35:57Z

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Lessons learned the hard way

2011-04-06T05:13:00Z

If you're going to work for a startup, or even a relatively new company, do not fear to ask about things like funding, capital, revenue, and profitability. It could save you some ginourmous headaches. Yeah....(read more)

Worst part of not going to MMS?

2011-03-16T16:12:10Z

Beyond, of course, all of the amazing content I’ll miss and friends I won’t see: All of the vendors, pinging my to stop by and see them and pick up their swag while I’m at MMS. Just taunting me....(read more)

ITIL v3 Foundations….

2011-02-14T22:53:38Z

Passed. Again, I’ll call out the guys below who do a great job on the course....(read more)

OneNote App for iPhone. This will be cool…

2011-02-11T14:45:48Z

If my iPhone ever shows up. Note it’s “Free for a limited time”!...(read more)

Also, a great ITIL Service Foundations free online exam…

2011-02-10T13:57:09Z

is here....(read more)

ITIL

2011-02-09T23:32:28Z

By know we all know that ITIL is a necessary evil. Or perhaps not evil to you, but something we all need to be aware of to varying degrees, depending on your organization and place in it. I’ve been through a couple of rounds of ITIL training, both for V2 and the update. We just finished the V3 foundations course, and it was hands down the best facilitator I’ve seen for ITIL training. The fine folks at svcmgtdynamix.com do an excellent job of wrapping your head around the concepts and acronyms, while...(read more)

Oh the times, they are a changin’

2011-02-03T04:56:58Z

I’m leaving my position of 11+ years to pursue opportunities a little closer to home. Hopefully I won’t leave the Systems Management community too far behind – I’m trying to sell them on SCOM – but my duties are certainly going to change and broaden as I move from a firm with dozens of offices in 20+ states to a firm specializing in hosted services. Regardless I will not leave the MyITForum community behind, and will post up interesting technical issues here as they arise....(read more)

Dynamic Groups in SCOM

2011-01-27T15:44:04Z

There are many ways (and reasons) to create dynamic groups in SCOM. Just a quick post with links that outline some of the more common ways to do it, based on various criteria. By Subnet AD Site OU Multiple Criteria Great Webcast on using a Formula! Regular Expressions Reg Keys...(read more)

Great Blog

2011-01-12T15:17:41Z

Don’t know how this blog hid from me for so long, but Michael Pietroforte does a great job over on his 4sysops blog. You should add it to your RSS feed post haste. I stumbled across his post on free e-books for admins , which he pledges to keep up to date. Great stuff!...(read more)

Long time…

2010-10-01T14:40:49Z

Let’s see here. Exchange 2010 + AD 2008 + 20 new edge servers running Hyper-V with 4 guests each + iFolder 3.8 + Storage Upgrades + transitions + life = no blog posts for some time. Yikes! Technical Content: The “Copy Package” command in sccm is great. It would be nice to be able to select more than one target at a time. It would also be nice to be able to do Packages, Software Updates, and OS Images in one wizard. Yeah, I’m lazy. If you haven’t yet, seek thee out RD Tabs for RDP session management...(read more)

Know your history

2010-04-13T16:52:19Z

True or not, the below is both interesting and plausible enough to be fun. The next time you are washing your hands and complain, because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500's: There is an old pub in London which used to have a gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hung. The horse drawn dray, carting the prisoner, was accompanied by an armed guard...(read more)

A Slew of OPSMGR links!

2010-03-18T16:11:00Z

Operations Manager Product Team Blog OpsManJam : A new resource for Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack authors and IT Pros, focusing on Management Pack Authoring best practices, tutorials, deployment and administration content. Through OpsManJam you can also download content such as management packs, featured articles and command shell scripts. Tools & Utilities : Find tools designed to make upgrading, deploying, and administering Operations Manager 2007 easier. Documentation : Download...(read more)

SCCM SP2 OSD : Custom boot image with Front End HTA

2010-02-25T18:02:00Z

Couldn’t find all of this info gathered in one place, so here we go. Like most shops on SCCM, we were looking for some enhancement to the default OSD setup, particularly when it comes to importing and naming workstations. One would think that this need is universal enough that Microsoft would have addressed it a little more readily (like making it an option to check in the boot image creation?), but not so much. So we’re going to walk through the steps of creating a custom boot image and adding the...(read more)