Archive for the ‘System Center General’ Category
Managing Private & Hybrid Clouds
Presentation: Managing Private & Hybrid Clouds Immediately after the Jersey BCS AGM we will have a presentation and demonstrations of Microsoft’s latest innovation in Private & Public Cloud management technologies. Monday, September 26, 2011 from 12:00 AM to 2:00 PM Register here – http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2176289340 In this fast paced session we will deliver an overview of [...]
In: Events, System Center General, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization · Tagged with: Virtual Machine Manager
System Center Advisor
Earlier this year at their Management summit, Microsoft announced the release candidate of System Center Advisor (formally Microsoft codename Atlanta). Essentially an Azure based cloud service which you can deploy to systems to assess server configuration and proactively avoid problems. SC Advisor is currently capable of providing guidance on Windows Server, SQL Server, Hyper-V and [...]
In: System Center General
Take SCVMM2012 out for a guided test drive.
“We are on a long roadmap with SCVMM”, that is what Microsoft’s virtualization team said back on September 6th 2007. Virtual Machine Manager was at RTM back then and since that announcement this System Center application has grown to be very welcome datacentre tool indeed. In this latest upcoming edition of Virtual Machine Manager we [...]
In: System Center General, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization
Recommended hotfixes for SCVMM
The latest recommended hotfixes for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2397711/en-us?sd=rss&spid=14555
In: System Center General, Virtualization
Backup Evolution
Backup technology has been a part of my world for a long time. As a child, I went to the office to change the tapes at night with mum in the early 80’s. I used to drive her nuts, hiding in printers, rearranging peoples desks, collecting highlighters and post it notes. I laugh now, but [...]
In: Data Protection Manager, Events, System Center General · Tagged with: DPM 2010
Avicode Webcasts
In October last year Microsoft acquired AVIcode, a market leader in application performance monitoring and diagnostics of .NET applications and services. I spent a little time coding in Visual Studio in my early career so was naturally inquisitive about the Avicode benefits. When the System Center team announced the release of AVIcode 5.7, I enquired [...]
In: System Center General · Tagged with: Avicode
Datacentre IT Process Automation
A few weeks ago I was at Inframon’s War on Cost event in London. Prior to the event I had the opportunity to meet some of the team and a few Microsoft staff. One conversation I had was around the many scenarios and capabilities of using System Center Opalis. Part of my response to a [...]
In: Events, System Center General
Windows & SQL Azure Readiness with MAP 5.5
A few weeks ago I mentioned the latest beta release of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning tool. I wanted to test the new Azure readiness feature and thought I’d share its use on my blog. After the install is completed I ran the Inventory and Assessment Wizard choosing the Azure scenario Choose from the appropriate [...]
In: System Center General
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.5 Beta
Microsoft have released the MAP Toolkit 5.5 Beta and the highlights for 5.5 are: Windows 7 and Windows Internet Explorer 8 migration assessment Database and web application readiness for Windows Azure and SQL Azure Discover MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase database instances for migration to SQL Server. Enhanced server consolidation assessments for Hyper-V. hardware library refresh [...]
In: System Center General, Virtualization
Tech-Ed 2010 North America – summary.
Here is my summary of Microsoft Tech-ED North America 2010. Hosted in the vibrant city of New Orleans. I have been to a major Microsoft event in both Europe and America now, I had an awesome time learning, even though a few times the demo gods let the presenters down, there was never enough to [...]
In: Data Protection Manager, Events, Service Manager, Social, System Center General, Virtualization · Tagged with: DPM 2010, Hyper-V, TechEd