First part of this series, I showed how you could run and install all the necessary prerequisites silent and automated, this time I will write a bit more instead of just adding the commands.In Service Pack 1, Configuration Manager will finally include cmdlets for PowerShell this allows for a scripted and automated setup process. Therefore …
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To run the Setup Downloader from command promt setupdl \MyServerMyShareConfigMgrUpdates /VERIFY: Use this option to verify the files in the download folder, which include language files. Review the ConfigMgrSetup.log file in the root of the C drive for a list of files that are outdated. No files are downloaded when you use this option. /VERIFYLANG: …
Now with the release of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has added a huge huge huge improvement in PowerShell, there are about 2400 cmdlets available, and Microsoft have said that there are more to tome.Just to display how easy it is, I thought Id give a walkthrough deployment of a simple Server 2012 farm.Including 1x AD …
As a part of Service pack 1 for SCOM 2012, Microsoft has added a new feature called GSM (Global Service Monitoring) It allows you to monitor your services from Microsoft’s datacenters.Lets say for instance that you have a large web-shop in Europe. You can use GSM to monitor your web-shop from various location in Europe, …
Wow! The last couple of days there has been a storm of Twitter activity around the Synergy conference in Barcelona (and for those that weren’t able to attend, including myself) There is a lot of new stuff happening around Citrix these days, so therefore I thought it would be a good idea to try to …
Just recently passed this exam, and I didn’t find it particular difficult.You can find information about it here –>http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?id=70-687 And it measures the following: This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.The higher the percentage, the more questions …
In many cases where you need an SSL certificate for your web servers (or other secure services like Lync, Exchange etc) you need to get a digital certificate from a third party certificate authority. Now many third party CA’s will issue you with the CRT file and a CRT for the Certificate authority (Most Windows …
Netscaler is a complex device, and lets face it a lot of things can go wrong. Either when setting it up or someone does something weird with the config and saves it. So therefore I wrote this basic troubleshooting guide, hopefully it will be some help for some This guide is primarily written with CLI …
Quick post!Got an error after I’ve upgraded my servers from 2008 R2 to 2012 and I wanted to boot my VM’s.In the event viewer I got this error message Hypervisor launch failed; Secure Mode Extensions have been enabled by the BIOS. Please disable Secure Mode Extensions in the BIOS to launch Hyper-V.I the hyper-v manager …
I see a lot of searches towards the blog regarding boundaries and boundary groups so therefore I thought that I should post a bit more about how these settings work and how they affect your site. A boundary is a network location in your infrastructure that contains one or more devices that you want to …
