Tag: IT Manager
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Out of Disk Space on Drive C–How To Increase Space on Drive C of a Virtual Machine Running Windows Server 2003
Revised 4/2/2011 to add merge change instructions link and link to simple way to do this using diskpart. I documented the process at: 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 Note… this is…
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Tips and Tools for Deploying Windows 7 Part 4-Desktop Deployment
Like everyone else, you love Windows 7 and can’t wait to get it deployed throughout your organization. Let’s take a look at the many tips and tools available today to ease your burden of deployment. I have broken it down into several steps (or categories of steps). While writing all of this, it became obvious…
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Using Differencing Disk and Sysprep Image to Create Hyper-V Guest on Windows Server 2008 R2 By Dan Stolts
Video Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Gg269420 If your on Twitter please let me know what you think about this post @ITProGuru. Otherwise, Please place a comment on my blog. Using a Sysprep image gives us the capability to create any number of servers with the base install done once. In this short video, we walk step-by-step through…
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Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Component Architecture Poster Windows Server 2008 R2
Check out this poster for a visual representation and definition of how Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) works! This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Remote Desktop Services technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2. It explains the functions and roles of: Remote Desktop Session Host Remote Desktop Virtualization Host Remote Desktop Connection Broker…
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Configure Email or Instant Message (IM) Alert Notification in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (SCOM)
From SharePoint Saturday Boston Question and Answer on my session Managing and Monitoring SharePoint 2010 with Operations Manager 2007 R2. “How to configure Email or IM alerting in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (SCOM)” To send notifications of alerts, Operations Manager 2007 can use a variety of mechanisms, such as e-mail, instant message, short…
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How to Find a Lost, Missing, Hidden or Removed Network Card (NIC) or Other Device and Even Remove it
In a scenario where you have physically removed hardware from a machine you can no longer see it in device manager. This does not mean that it is gone. Evidence of that is, if for example you had a network card that had a Static IP address set and you remove the card and add…
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Planning for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010
In this 27 min video we will discuss Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 deployment PLANNING. You can expect to learn what needs to be considered and what tools are available for planning an upgrade/deployment of Office 2010 and/or SharePoint 2010. Silverlight Video (27:18) Source… You can find the downloadable files at the following URLs on…
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Hyper-V Architecture Poster
Similar to the Windows Server 2008 R2 component poster, the Hyper-V poster is a great visual tool to help in the understanding of the key features and components. It highlights key Hyper-V components including: Architecture Virtual Networking Virtual Machine Snapshots Live Migration Storage Interfaces Storage Types Storage Location and Paths Import and Export This large-format…
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Hyper-V Security 101 – Virtualization Administration Delegation of Hyper-V and SCVMM
When running Hyper-V you do not need to be at the console to manage your virtualization platform. In fact, it is strongly recommended that you delegate these rights. If you let someone login to a server with administrative permissions they basically have the “keys to the kingdom”. We do not usually want to do this. …
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Awesome Must Have System Tools – Windows Sysinternals (Every IT Pro should have in their toolbox)
At the Windows Server User Group in Waltham MA this week we talked about system tools that IT Pro’s use to make their life easier. Many tools were presented by many people. Many of these tools were part of the Sysinternals tool set so I thought I would make a post to organize these tools…