Year: 2011
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Setting Up Live.com Pop and SMTP Internet Email Account Settings for Outlook 2010
Setting up the POP SMTP settings for your live.com ID is not difficult but it does not use “default” settings so making this post to show you how to do it and give you the details of what the settings should be. This post will walk through all the settings you will need. I start…
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How To Pin An Internet Website Address or Other Application To The Windows 7 Task Bar
Covered in this article: Pin Website to Windows 7 Taskbar Using IE9 Pin website or application to Windows 7 Taskbar without IE9 Pin Multiple websites to a single IE Icon on the Taskbar
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Everything You Could Ever Want to Know About SQL Azure-Get Smart On SQL Azure Here
Recently a great series of 15 introductory videos have been completed and made available up on Microsoft Showcase, all focusing on SQL Azure. Here are the episodes: Getting Started: SQL Azure at a Glance Getting Started: Basic Architectural Considerations with SQL Azure Getting Started: Creating an Account and Your SQL Azure Database Getting Started: Interacting…
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Microsoft Virtualization And Cloud Certification Community Study Group
Microsoft Virtualization and Cloud Certification Study Group(s) in this post… Study Group Proposal Why Get Certified What Are Microsoft Virtualization Certification Options? Browse Certification Catalog for additional certification options More certification information of value More virtualization and cloud information of value Study Group Proposal Do you presently hold a certification in ANY…
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How To Add SCSI Controller To Hyper-V Guest Server
How to add a SCSI controller to a virtual guest on hyper-V We add the controller, add a drive to it, start the VM and initialize and format the drive. If you’re having trouble viewing the video, Click here to download it. The procedures to do this using SCVMM would be almost exactly the…
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How To Add SCSI Controller To Hyper-V Guest Server
How to add a SCSI controller to a virtual guest on hyper-V We add the controller, add a drive to it, start the VM and initialize and format the drive. You can download the video below if you prefer that over the embed http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/danstolts/video/ITPROGuru-2011-06-Adding-SCSI-Controller-To-Hyper-V.wmv The procedures to do this using SCVMM would be…
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How To Open Firewall Port 1433 for SQL Server Database Engine For Use With SCOM (or anything else)
In this very short video, I walk you through the step by step process of opening the 1433 firewall port for SQL Server. I am doing it because I am setting up a new System Center Operations manager server but the procedures would be the same for any other application that uses SQL Server for…
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How To Tame Windows 7 and Outlook Search Syntax–Knowing The Syntax Makes All The Difference
Search Simply Will Not Do What I Want It To Do!!!! Almost ashamed to say I was looking for some file on my laptop but could not find the exact query set I needed to work with. I was looking for all of my Camtasia recording and project files. It was pretty easy to get…
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Resources For System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (SCOM)
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Description Notes System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Product Documentation Collection of links to all online documentation of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. This Includes: Product Documentation Quick Start Guide Support Configurations Guide Upgrade Guide Design Guide Deployment Guide MOM 2005 Migration Guide Security Guide Administrators Guide Users…
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System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Best Practices Poster Rule and Monitor Targeting
You can download the PDF from go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=125048. The poster will help you understand the process and best practices for setting up rules and targeting. System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Best Practices Targeting All Managed Computers EXAMPLE: You want to monitor failed logon attempts on Windows Computers DO • Use Windows Operating System to target all…
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Network Trashed on My Lenovo W510 And The NIC Driver Will Not Install–So SIMPLE If You Know The Secret
Thanks to Keith Combs for his post as it provided me the solution. Install the Intel Ethernet driver from 6irf24ww_764. You are running the installer but it does not really install it. However, it does put the driver on disk so you can manually select it later. Start | type Device Manager | Press ENTER…
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How to Solve Connectivity Issues Connecting To SCOM, SCVMM, AD or Any Other Service–Here is the Easy fix
I have been in the technology industry for more than 25 years now and I have dealt with my fair share of connectivity issues. In the last decade or so a good 85% or more of the issues I have encountered have been DNS issues. There is a very easy solution to fix the problem…
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How To Expand and Extend To Increase Capacity On A Virtual Hard Disk The Easy and Fast Way–Solve the problem of “Out of Disk Space on Drive C” Forever
Before following these instructions… PLEASE backup your machine. The best way to get a good backup of a machine is to do an export. So please, export the machine or at the very least test your backup procedures to make sure they are valid. Also, if you want a way to do this through a…
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How To Merge a Chained Differential VHD Disk So It Can Be Extended and Expanded
In my post Out of Disk Space on Drive C–How To Increase Space on Drive C of a Virtual Machine Running Windows Server 2003 I showed how to expand a drive but these instructions do not work if you have a differencing disk or chain of disks. If you want to expand a disk, you…
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Installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 SP1
I am walking through the installation of SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 on a new server that I just setup in my demo environment. Hope this is helpful. First lets look at the system requirements. If you want to setup your environment with multiple servers or you want to do a custom install you can find…
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How To Install SQL 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 For Use With SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1
Before I get deep into SQL Installation let me tell you where we are starting… I am walking through the installation of SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 on a new server that I just setup in my demo environment. I want to use SQL Server 2008 R2 for my deployment so I need to set that…
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How To Install IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 For Use With SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1
I am starting with a sysprep’d Windows Server 2008 R2 Server. I have allocated 2 processors and 512mb memory to the guest using dynamic memory. Once I get the system up and running, I will bump up the memory to be close to what I actually need but I will leave it dynamic. I need…
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How To Hot Add Storage To A Hyper-V Guest–Super Simple And No Service Interruption
Hot Add Storage was added to Hyper-V at version 2008 R2. From the Hyper-V Manager Right-click the machine you want to add storage to, select Settings. This will bring up the settings window. Click On SCSI Controller in the left pane. If you do not have a SCSI Controller, you will have to turn the…
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How To Automatically Create BCDEdit Data For A Boot2VHD File On Your Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Machine
Many people have told me they have lots of problems with BCDEdit. Others have told me they are afraid to do it for fear of making a mistake. To simplify the process I have created a batch file that takes a few parameters to “install” the VHD into BCDEdit for you. It is a batch…
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How To Automatically Create BCDEdit Data For A Boot2VHD File On Your Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Machine
Many people have told me they have lots of problems with BCDEdit. Others have told me they are afraid to do it for fear of making a mistake. To simplify the process I have created a batch file that takes a few parameters to “install” the VHD into BCDEdit for you. It is a batch…