Earlier this week System Center Universe announced the 3 finalists for the SCU Jedi contest. If you don’t know what the contest is here is the description for it: System Center Universe has a contest to give one lucky presenter the opportunity to present at the next System Center Universe conference. This lucky presenter will … Read more
Hybrid Cloud with NVGRE Whitepaper (WSSC 2012 R2) There is a new whitepaper on Hybrid Cloud with NVGRE (WS SC 2012 R2). This was put together by the following team: Authors: Kristian Nese, Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP and Flemming Riis, Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP. Reviewers: Daniel Neumann, Cloud & Datacenter Management … Read more
Today Microsoft has released Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1. This update applies to the following:: App Controller 2012 Service Pack 1 Data Protection Manager 2012 Service Pack 1 Operations Manager 2012 Service Pack 1 Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Service Pack 1 It can be downloaded here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2836751/en-us
Microsoft has released a bunch of free e-books. The list covers a wide variety of technologies. Some of interest me to are SharePoint 2013, Server 2012 and even a couple on System Center. There is a really cool Cmdlet Reference for App Controller and System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. Click here to view and … Read more
Microsoft recently update the Integration points for System Center map for Service Pack 1. The map is a diagram that illustrates the integration points between all the technologies in the System Center stack. Here is what the map looks like: This can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36429
I am happy to announce the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook was published on March 26th 2013. I had the opportunity to be a technical reviewer on this book. If you administer SCVMM you will want this book. The author is Microfost MVP Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso. You can visit his blog … Read more
This is an exciting week for System Center. First there is a new tool released by Microsoft called System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Analyzer (SCCA). The System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Analyzer works these System Center products in the stack: Operations Manager Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Service Manager Orchestrator (plus Service Provider Foundation) Configuration … Read more
I am happy to announce that today I passed the final exam to obtain the MCSE: Private Cloud certification. I was able to upgrade from the MCITP: Server Administrator requiring me to only pass two exams. Out of the 70-246 Private Cloud Monitoring and Operations with System Center 2012 and 70-247 Private Cloud Configuration … Read more
I have been staying busy. I recently finished technical review of a new book titled Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Cookbook. Here is what the book will look like. Here is an overview of what you can expect from the book: How to use VMM Architecture and plan for a real … Read more