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SCE Sunday part 5 – Monitoring
In part 5 of my tour of System Center Essentials 2010 , I have done a tour of monitoring: One thing I did notice since I made the last part of this series was the alarming rate at which my SCE machine...
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Discovering Autism with Microsoft Surface
I met Freena Eijffinger again at this year’s at TechEd Berlin after doing some cartons for her film crew last years and she casually mentioned she has been given a Microsoft Surface . Her company...
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SQL Server performance in a virtual world
Despite doing quite a few posts and talks on Virtualising SQL Server, I am still getting the odd comment on earlier posts, so please forgive this if you have heard it all before. Firstly these are my...
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SCE Sunday part 6 – Managing Updates
Possibly the best thing about System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) is the way it takes the pain out of managing updates. My video on how it does this is here.. While the free Windows Server Update...
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Search and deploy
It’s a sad fact of life that search doesn’t always get you that answer you were looking for. This is mainly because it isn’t always obvious what you are actually looking for especially when it comes...
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What is the Private Cloud?
One of my most read blog posts is Private Cloud? which means that the private cloud is of interest and hopefully what I wrote went over fairly well. However greater minds than mine actually design all...
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SCE Sunday part 7– Software Deployment
Deploying software has traditionally been a major headache for IT Professionals, and System Center Essentials largely takes this away as you can see in the latest of my screencasts.. However you need...
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Microsoft BI and Kerberos
I was briefing a bunch of partners the other day, and during coffee I went off piste and did a short overview of my presentation “It’s not about the Technology” to the BI MSc course at Dundee...
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Beta to release upgrade paths for Windows Server 2008 R2 sp1
I see loads and loads of threads tweets and forum questions which run along the lines of “What is the upgrade path from [insert any Microsoft Product here] RC to RTM?” To which the answer is always...
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SQL or No SQL ?
I have a post on NoSQL but as Azure moves on it’s looking a little long in the tooth so I thought it was time for an update.. I am a big fan of Darwin because he was able to question his own beliefs...
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SCE Sunday part 8 – Authoring
In this weeks episode of my review of System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) I want to review the business of customising SCE to monitor the parts of the infrastructure that you are interested in, which...
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Support calls in TechNet Subscriptions
If you are an IT professional working with Microsoft products you need a TechNet subscription in the same way you need food. A TechNet subscription shouldn’t be confused with the publicly available...
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Conversations on the Cloud
One way to get interesting interviews is to put a group of people with differing views in a room and fire up the cameras. So when Zane Adam (general manager for Azure) was over for IPExpo we thought...
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How Dense are you?
One of the drivers to moving to the cloud be that public or private is the promised reduced management overhead and cost savings. Part of this comes from how effectively infrastructure can be utilised...
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Virtualised Domain Controllers
My standard demo rig has a separate virtual machine (VM) running my domain controller(DC), I then have a bunch of client and server VMs all of which belong to that domain and I spin those up for...
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Active Directory for Demos
Are you bored setting up domain controllers for your demos to work with, not sure of all the prompts to fill in then try this on a clean copy of Windows Server 2008 R2.. Create a text file called...
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Merry Christmas and a Happy 2011
Like most IT professionals I usually avoid reading blogs with too much personal stuff in, so I try and avoid that in my own posts. But it is Christmas Eve so here’s your card .. As this supposed to...
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SCE Sunday part 9 – Authoring continued
When I made my last System Center Essentials video on authoring , I realised there was too much to cover in a 5 minute video so I wanted to show some more again this this week. What I don’t want to do...
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Five New Year’s Resolutions for 2011
I think a lot of people, IT Professionals included are worried about the year ahead, so here are some likely problems and my new year resolutions: Energy prices are spiralling This means the cost of...
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Looking backwards over a decade of Microsoft BI
It was in early 2000 if memory serves that I first used OLAP Services in SQL Server 7 and Cognos Novaview 1.0 and ten years later I wondered, as you do at this time of the year, what has changed and...
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