We had a great show this Tuesday, the first session after the keynote was about Windows Server 2008 R2 and we had lot of stuff to show and to share with the audience, you can get the presentation here, I promise I was going to drop the powershell scripts here, and here they are, Remote... read more
Esto va en castellano en honor a mi lengua nativa, quisiera compartir con ustedes una camino para IT Pros para meterse en el mundo de los STSs e Identidad Federada de la mano de Windows Identity Foundation (ADFS v2.0). Al momento ya desplegué varios laboratorios y 2 ambientes de pre-producción de Geneva Server Beta 2... read more
RUN Reloaded 09 (the official Windows 7 Launch in AR) will happen next 24/25 November, hosted in the UADE University (Lima 717 – Aula Magna). Registration is not open and there is room for 325 attendees, targeted for Microsoft customers. This event will go through the following technologies Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Expression... read more
I was in the middle of the setup of SCVMM 2008 R2 on a lab environment and got to the point that I needed to configure the Library Share Settings. I wanted the Library to be on a separate physical drive (1TB SATA drive) but it was really annoying to shutdown the VM, add the... read more
Begin with the End Well, I have this System X with VT capable processors so Installing Hyper-V should be pretty straightforward, I deployed tons of Hyper-Vs and never run into major problems more than well known remote management issues. This time I had to work a little harder, lets introduce the system IBM System x3650... read more
Today I had to deploy SCCM 2007 SP2 RC on a Windows Server 2008 R2 system. The installation went pretty straightforward, however it can become a little tricky if you have not installed previous versions of SCCM. This procedure deploys SCCM in mixed mode, on a future post I will show how to deploy the... read more
The upgrade went pretty straightforward on my environment, the SCOM setup detected the RC deployment of OpsMgr and proposed an upgrade when event the OpsMgr database would be upgraded. My OpsMgr Db is on on server and the Root Management server on another, the upgrade should only be run on the RMS. (RMS) Inser the... read more
Since OpsMgr 2007 I found several times with the same error from the DNS Management pack. The “DNS 2008 External Resolution Monitor” is always in an error state besides my DNS has no problems at all solving public names. I solve this problem by overriding for the whole DNS Class the “Query Type” parameter of... read more
Before OpsMgr ACS is able to collect token related audit events (Event ID 299), auditing needs to be enabled on each Geneva Server on the farm. This will create a lot of audits, which you may need to filer using Noise Filtering on your assigned Audit Collector Server, I will cover how we achieved noise... read more
Note: (2009-07-21) I added a couple of details to the article. I just finished the deployment of OpsMgr R2 RC on a lab environment using a multiple server architecture, the deployment was straightforward. Below I blog my experience indicating from which VM I run the commands, Environment This reference environment is based on: AD: Windows... read more