Category Archives: SCVMM

2015 Microsoft Virtual MVP Conference – Session Highlight #3

The System Center stack has come a long way and has even more great improvements coming down the pipe in 2016.  Pete has been doing working with the System Center suite for a long time and knows his stuff about … Continue reading

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Architecting Hyper-V for EPIC Systems Session– March 25th Washington D.C.

There is still time to signup for the March 25th FREE workshop at the Microsoft office in Chevy Chase, MD (Just outside D.C).  There have been a lot great news coming out of Epic Systems regarding running Epic workloads on … Continue reading

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Architecting Hyper-V for EPIC Systems Session– March 25th Washington D.C.

  UPDATE: The weather didn’t cooperate with our training in on February 18th in D.C.   Luckily it has been rescheduled for March 25th in the same location at the Chevy Chase, MD Microsoft MTC.  Hoping we can get even a bigger … Continue reading

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Hyper-V Now on EPIC Systems Target Platform List!

Its been a long time coming and lots of folks at EPIC Systems and Microsoft have put effort into thoroughly testing EPIC Hyperspace and Web and Services Servers on Hyper-V 2012 R2.  Finally it has passed all the tests and … Continue reading

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PowerShell Snip of the Week (Get-SCVirutalNetworkAdapter)

  Ben Armstrong recently posted a method on Listing all the IP Addresses used by VMs.  The Method was pretty straight forward and gave back some great information.  It got me thinking of how enterprise customers could do this using … Continue reading

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PowerShell Snip of the Week (SCVMM)

  Here is this weeks PowerShell Snip of the Week. Using Get-VirtualNetworkAdapter. When looking into a recent issue with a NIC Team on a host, I had a need for a quick way to identify which VMs were using a … Continue reading

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Steps for Updating SCVMM 2012 R2 to Update Rollup 1

The update of SCVMM 2012 R2 with Update Rollup one is fairly straight forward with the exception of the need to execute a SQL script after the server component update, but if you have used VMM for any length of … Continue reading

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System Center 2012 R2 Update Rollup 1 (KB2904734)

The System Center Team release (KB2904734) System Center 2012 R2 Update Rollup 1 today with high hopes by admins everywhere that this will start to plug some of the large holes in the products under the System Center Umbrella released  … Continue reading

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Quick Tip: Quick and Dirty on When You Should Use Hyper-V Snapshots/Checkpoints.

You should create a snapshot, or checkpoint (as they are called in System Center Virtual Machine Manager), right before you make any known change to your VM that would require some sort of system or application restore if the configuration, … Continue reading

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System Center 2012 Licensing Limiting the Public Cloud?

Reading through the licensing documents of the upcoming System Center 2012 I came across the FAQ document that touches on the number of OSEs (Operating System Environments) that you are entitled to run for free based on which level of … Continue reading

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