March 14 2010 7:42 PM

Times change but people rarely do

As someone involved in the hiring and firing process in an IT consulting firm, I have had the opportunity to interview a number of people and I am constantly amazed at how people embellish their experiences and make statements that typically prove to be

March 10 2010 11:10 PM

Manually installing SIS on Windows Server 2008 R2

One of the pre-requisites for Data Protection Manager is to have the Single Instance Store (SIS) installed. It’s a mystery to me why DPM isn’t like other System Center products (SCOM as an example) in that when a pre-requisite is found to not exist, a li

January 23 2010 5:16 PM

Microsoft Online Services Just Makes Sense for SMBs

Are you the owner of a company of less than 50 people? Is your core competency supporting your IT infrastructure or do you do something else to generate revenue? Even if your company is in IT consulting, like ours, it just made a whole lot of sense both

January 23 2010 5:06 PM

Ditch Windows Mobile for an iPhone

Having been burned by Microsoft Mobile for 2 years and disappointed daily, I decided to buy an iPhone yesterday and oh my goodness, this device is AMAZING!!! Windows Mobile was about as fun as poking myself in the eye with a sharp stick daily. It was a c

January 21 2010 12:54 PM

What happened to the ‘easier’ to use MP Catalog??

Microsoft has replaced the user friendly MP catalog with Microsoft PinPoint, the confusing solution that makes it frustrating to be a customer using System Center technologies. MS Pinpoint to me appears to be just as difficult to navigate as the IBM web

January 18 2010 11:03 AM

Pay for MMS 2010 Registration with Premier Support Hours

If you are a Premier Support customer, Microsoft is allowing you to convert your PSS contract hours into attendance to MMS 2010. If you are interested in this, contact your SSR or TAM and make the request. If your SSR or TAM has no idea what you are talk

December 11 2009 8:37 PM

Cross Platform Powershell Scripts… now AVAILABLE!!

For those of you working with the xplat agents in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2, Microsoft has just published their Cross Platform PowerShell scripts to the web. The scripts and more info can be found here http://blogs.msdn.com/SCXplat/

November 21 2009 4:49 PM

What does the MCT designation do for you?

Well for $400 US per year to renew, you get NO support from Microsoft… that’s one of the perks… On July 8, 2009 a colleague of mine at Infront sent an email to the Microsoft Courseware Library Requests team and received a response yesterday November 20,

November 03 2009 9:48 PM

Error code 80070102 deploying SCOM agent

Ran into an issue today trying to both push deploy an agent and manually install an agent on a Windows Server 2008 server. The resultant error code was 80070102 when the push installation failed. Looking at the agentinstall.log for the server in c:\Progr

October 19 2009 1:05 PM

DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

The DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 has RTW-ed. The MP is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c97b22a1-1fd6-426f-94ab-2a6e6db4aed0displaylang=en This release supports monitoring