The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional and Community Leader
This has been a busy week for me on the Internet airwaves! On Wednesday my interview with Richard Campbell for RunAsRadio.com went live… In Show #242 Richard and I discussed System Center Essentials 2010, which brings the power of the System Center family to small and mid-sized business. This was my fifth appearance on RunAs... Continue Reading →
I like to practice what I preach, even if it inconveniences me a little bit. So as annoying as it was last week when my user account password expired and I had to select a new one. It was more annoying because my System Center Essentials stopped working at the same time. It reminded me... Continue Reading →
Occasionally there is an announcement or new offering worth calling special attention to and the teams at Microsoft wanted me to make sure everyone saw this one: Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA): http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/ MVA has been around for a few months and we are trying to raise awareness about its existence to the broader community. I... Continue Reading →
It has taken a lot of managing and work, but today I can see the fruits of my labour – an entire environment of GREEN checkmarks. When all systems are healthy, this IT Admin is happy! Of course, a few of my virtual machines are off, and my laptop is configured to get updates from... Continue Reading →
If you are starting to use System Center Essentials (or, for that matter, System Center Virtual Machine Manager) to manage your virtual environment, then you can save a lot of time creating virtual machines by using VM Templates to build and configure the virtual machines, and ISO files stored in Virtual Machine Libraries to deploy... Continue Reading →
I have been working on this tour for HP Insight with System Center Essentials 2010 for a few months, and I am glad to have overcome a lot of pitfalls that I discovered along the way with regard to the installation process for the product. As one of the people involved quipped (after a relatively... Continue Reading →
Most of you know that Microsoft’s System Center family of products are the leading solutions for IT systems management. They have come a long way in the past seven years, to the point where it is a rare company that does not have at least one System Center product installed in their organization. Although there... Continue Reading →
A few months ago I received HP’s branded System Center Essentials (HP Insight with Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010) to prepare for my current tour. As with any server-based application, the best practice is to make sure that your host operating system is patched with the latest Service Pack, Security Patches, and Critical Patches. Additionally... Continue Reading →
I found myself with a weird problem this morning. Most of the time I manage my virtualization environment with System Center Virtual Machine Manager. However because of a client project I have re-implemented System Center Essentials 2010, which has most of the VMM components that I use integrated into it. In order to add virtualization... Continue Reading →
