Archive for October, 2011

Microsoft’s New Cloud Assessment Tool

Well there’s something new and interesting. Microsoft have released a cloud based tool to help partners asses their customer cloud computing needs. I have already run a sample client through the tool and it’s a real time saver. Not only will partners benefit in time saved, clients will soon benefit as this may bring more [...]

Posted on October 7, 2011 at 2:32 am by Ronnie · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Cloud, Virtualization

SCVMM2012: Adding a host from an untrusted domain or workgroup

This quick guide is for those that want to deploy the agents to a host that doesn’t share the Virtual Machine Managers domain. There are two steps. Firstly we must install the agent on the host, then we must add the host to VMM and import the security key generated during the agent setup. Here [...]

Posted on October 4, 2011 at 12:21 pm by Ronnie · Permalink · One Comment
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Installing and Evaluating VMM2012 RC

I’m just running through another SCVMM 2012 install and this time thought to capture the steps. System requirements and prerequisite information for the release candidate is available in the official TechNet deployment documentation here. Step by Step *Note I’m using the Release Candidate here and at this time am not creating a Self Service Portal [...]

Posted on October 4, 2011 at 11:26 am by Ronnie · Permalink · One Comment
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