UK Tech Days is a week-long series of free events run by Microsoft and technical communities to celebrate and inspire developers, IT professionals and IT Managers to get more from Microsoft technology. Our day events in London from 12 th to 16 th…(read more)
[ConfigMgr] Client Deployment with System Center – Jeff Wettlaufer needs your help
Please read the following post from Jeff who needs our feedback to help with his upcoming series of blog posts: Hey everyone, we are commencing a 5 part series on this blog about Client Deployment, and based on some recent trends, publications and evaluations…(read more)
[Misc] Creating a Firewall Rule to Allow ICMPv4 Echo Requests
This could be one of those really useful snippets to file away somewhere: “You're trying to do some basic troubleshooting on your network and you ping a machine but it doesn't respond. You know its there. Why isn't it responding? It's…(read more)
[Announcement] A change to my blogging strategy
Those of you who have been following my blog (thank you), will see that I try to blog as much on the System Center suite and other topics that interest me and that I think will be of interest to you. However, the problem I’ve had for sometime is with…(read more)
[App-V] The SoftGrid blog has a new location
Well, it was long overdue in coming but we’re pleased to announce that the home for the App-V Team blog has now changed. Out is the old http://blogs.technet.com/SoftGrid URL we used to use and in is the new http://blogs.technet.com/AppV URL we've…(read more)
[ConfigMgr] Round-up of New Posts on the Configuration Manager Team Blog: January 26th 2010 – February 26th 2010
From the Configuration Manager Writers – Announcements, Comments and other Stuff blog: In case you missed them, the following posts were published on the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog for the time period January 26 th , 2010 – February…(read more)
[Hyper-V] Migration Guide Updated
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee849855(WS.10).aspx…(read more)
[Hyper-V] Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities x64 Edition (KB977336)
Overview The Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities package works with Windows Server Migration Tools to let you migrate Hyper-V and Routing and Remote Access Services. Detailed, step-by-step information about how to use the Windows Server 2008 R2…(read more)
[TechNet Webcast] Wed 3rd March 2010 – Monitoring, Backing Up, and Restoring Exchange Server 2010 with System Center (Level 300)
Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft System Center. Audience(s): IT Generalist. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Microsoft System Center helps you get the most…(read more)
[OpsMgr] Troubleshooting alert storms in OpsMgr 2007
From The Operations Manager Support Team Blog : A large and sudden increase in the number of alerts is called an alert storm. An alert storm can be a symptom of massive changes of some kind within your management group, such as the catastrophic failure…(read more)