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Service Management Automation Runbook Spotlight: Virtual Machine Startup by...
Microsoft’s Charles Joy just posted part 1 of his 2 part series that contains SMA/PSv3 workflow examples on virtual machine startup by priority. This is a great post that also serves to bridge from...
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KB: The System Center Cloud Services Process Pack installer may fail
When you run the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack installer, the installer may fail. When this occurs, the following exception is logged in the SCCloudServicesSetupWizard.log file:...
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Keeping VM Configurations in Sync with Hyper-V Replica
Yesterday I posted about my new home setup, which makes heavy use of Hyper-V Replica.When you first setup Hyper-V Replica for a virtual machine – we copy the virtual machine configuration and storage...
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Automation–Service Management Automation Runbook Spotlight–Virtual Machine...
Hello Readers/Viewers!The final (and 4th) post of my 2-part mini-series (after Douglas Adams) has finally arrived!Let’s Level SetSo, let’s take a moment to see where we are in this mini-series. As...
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Evaluating Windows Server and System Center on a Laptop (or two, or three) –...
How to build a Failover Cluster on a single laptopContinuing on from my Introduction and Fabric posts, we’re now going to start playing with (learning) Failover Clustering for our evaluation of Windows...
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Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for August 2013
The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: August...
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Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for August 2013
The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: August...
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Hybrid IT Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise IT Released to Web
You’ve been hearing about hybrid cloud and hybrid IT for the last year or so. In fact, the talk of hybrid IT reached a fever pitch this year at TechEd North America in New Orleans. There were a ton of...
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MAT 1.5 is available (now with NIC recreation!)
I am happy to announce that MAT 1.5 is now available. Grab your copy now: The MAT 1.5 brings a large number of improvements over the previous MAT and also puts the MAT and the MAT (Powered by Project...
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Introducing PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Hello readers! In this blog post I will be introducing PowerShell Desired State Configuration (hereafter called DSC). I will explain what it is and how you can use it so that it can serve as a primer...
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New Preview: Windows Azure Rights Management Service Update
Howdy folks, Today I'm blogging about some exciting news from a part of the Active Directory team that we haven't talked about much yet – our Rights Management Service (RMS) team. Just a few hours ago,...
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Automation–Service Management Automation–Utility Runbook...
Hello Readers/Viewers!I know I keep posting stuff, but I have so much to get out I hardly have time to get my PowerShell formatted!Don’t worry – this post will be short and sweet. I simply wanted to...
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Introducing PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Hello readers! In this blog post I will be introducing PowerShell Desired State Configuration (hereafter called DSC). I will explain what it is and how you can use it so that it can serve as a primer...
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August 2013 was Automation Month at the Building Clouds Blog!
Augomation? Autogust? Augustomania?Whatever you call it, with 16 Automation Track / Automation Track adjacent posts, it was Automation’s month to shine.You may have not even realized it – heck, I don’t...
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Deployment–Using PDT for end-to-end deployment including Active Directory
At the public conferences this year – MMS 2013, TechEd 2013 North America, and TechEd 2013 Europe – I gave a “sneak peak” of the PDT VMCreator doing a full end-to-end deployment of an environment...
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Deployment-Using SQL named instance static ports with PDT
By default, a SQL named instance uses a dynamic port. However, some System Center components cannot use a SQL named instance on a dynamic port. Configuration Manager does not support a SQL dynamic...
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Weekend Reading: Show Up on Monday as (potentially) an Expert in Automation
I have a quality weekend reading recommendation for all the IT pros looking for the latest and greatest information on Automation.One my favorite blogs is Building Clouds, and the automation SME’s who...
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Deployment–Non-default network identifier and PDT VMCreator
If you’ve attempted a full deployment of System Center 2012 - Service Manager using PDT VMCreator and Installer, you have probably run into an issue where the VM being used for the SharePoint Web Parts...
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Deployment–Timezones other than Pacific Standard Time with PDT VMCreator
By default, Windows uses Pacific Standard Time during setup unless another timezone is specified. Prior to PDT 2.5, VMCreator did not allow you specify timezone, so all VMs created used Pacific...
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Installing Update Rollup 2 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 may fail or...
[This post comes to us courtesy of Manish Kapoor from Microsoft Commercial Technical Support]Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 has been released and may be offered by WSUS on your...
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