Orchestrated Chaos

Hyper-V on Win2k8 Core

pwstrain — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:55:55 GMT

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...(read more)

Cats

pwstrain — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:35:57 GMT

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Lessons learned the hard way

pwstrain — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:13:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Worst part of not going to MMS?

pwstrain — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:12:10 GMT

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...(read more)

ITIL v3 Foundations….

pwstrain — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:53:38 GMT

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…

pwstrain — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:45:48 GMT

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…

pwstrain — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:57:09 GMT

is here....(read more)

ITIL

pwstrain — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:32:28 GMT

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...(read more)

Oh the times, they are a changin’

pwstrain — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:56:58 GMT

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...(read more)

Dynamic Groups in SCOM

pwstrain — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:44:04 GMT

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...(read more)

Great Blog

pwstrain — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:17:41 GMT

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...(read more)

Long time…

pwstrain — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:40:49 GMT

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...(read more)

Know your history

pwstrain — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:52:19 GMT

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...(read more)

A Slew of OPSMGR links!

pwstrain — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:11:00 GMT

Operations Manager Product Team Blog OpsManJam : A new resource for Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack authors and IT Pros, focusing on Management...(read more)

SCCM SP2 OSD : Custom boot image with Front End HTA

pwstrain — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)