With the latest release of Beta of SP1, there is a lot of new functionality that needs to get tested VMM comes with some new and exciting features. Improved Support for Network Virtualization Extend the VMM console with Add-ins Support for Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical units and discovery of SAS …
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For people that don’t know about MAP it is an free solution accelerator from Microsoft, it offersan inventory and assessment of your infrastructure. You can download it for free from here –>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd537566.aspxYou can use this data to see if you meet the requirements(software wise and hardware) needed to migrate, to for instance Windows 8. And …
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Microsoft did today actually release a beta of the new Message Analyzer.This is actually the new Network Monitor, so its build up from scratch and includes more features. As you can see it no longer primarily focused on network monitoring, but actually analyze everything!From USB connection, RPC, LAN, WLAN, SMB shares and you have the …
A lot of fuzz is going on regarding virtualization these days, and the primary topic is Hyper-V vs VMware vSphere. And of course there going to be some arguments regarding which one is better, and which of them has the more features and who is the most enterprise ready so on and so forth. Just …
Today Microsoft released the following news, The following Forefront products are being discontinued ◦Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) ◦Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) ◦Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) ◦Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) ◦Forefront Threat Management Gateway Web Protection Services (TMG WPS) You can read more about it here …
With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has added loads of new features and functionality and I’m going to take a walkthrough of the new stuff. Data Deduplication Is the technology that allows you to eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data, so instead of storing the data twice you would just have a flag which points to …
Microsoft just released the beta of service pack 1 for System Center 2012. And for ConfigMgr that includes: Deployment and management of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Distribution point for Windows Azure to help reduce infrastructure costs Automation of administrative tasks through PowerShell support Management of Mac OS X clients and Linux and UNIX …
With SCOM 2007 you have the ability to monitor a service within your infrastructure with Distributed Applications.Distributed Applications are basically made up of different components that make your service.For instance let’s think of a web shop. Which are typically made up of 1x Webserver1x Database server1x File Serverand/or a authentication service like ADAll these components …
A bit hidden in SCCM 2012 is the ability to backup site servers in Configuration Manager with a schedule, open the console go to administration –> site configuration –> sites –> settings –> Site Maintance From there you choose “Backup Sites Servers” and now you choose a backup location and set a schedule –> If …
This update includes the following:The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (“SP1”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. The Beta is for evaluation purposes only and not to be used in production as described in the EULAs associated with the product. No …
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