Here’s a not-so-minor aggravation related to VM deployment and a workaround I wanted to share with you as another lesson in the “private cloud in the real world” series. It's not every day you create a VM templates with multiple logical drives, especiall...

Problem: I had to convert a VMware VM guest in my VMM 2012 test environment, but the virtualization team would not let me connect to vCenter from System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. This means a virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversion is not possible...

If you're an Operations Manager administrator or an Orchestrator 2012 enthusiast, there are two utilities you have to check out… Cool Tool: New Command Line Utility to Start a Runbook -This utility is an OpsMgr administrators dream, enabling easy executi...

I am going to run through a quick 2-minute synopsis of a few of the most important Hyper-V features in Windows 8 Beta (now Windows Server 2012) for a customer, and thought I would share with the community at the same time. Below you’ll find a brief descr...

System Center 2012 Service Manager includes several product connectors for importing data into the CMDB automatically on a recurring basis with minimal effort. But what can you do when these connectors do not provide the configuration item (CI) data need...

The Cloud Services Process Pack to support MS Private Cloud deployment is now RTM!

We had a thread in the SCC OpsMgr Forum discussing agents crashing in Operations Manager 2012 (OpsMgr) environments that were upgraded from OpsMgr 2007 R2 AND the OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment contained custom management packs. See OpsMgr 2012 RTM - Agent c...

Here is a series of video shorts from some of the MVPs on the Infront team demonstrating some of the new virtualization-related features in Hyper-V v3 on Windows Server 2012 (aka Windows 8) including: Hyper-V Replica, Storage Live Migration, Controlling...

Robert Hearn has been on a blogging streak of late…some good stuff even for experienced runbook authors need to read. I marked a couple of my favorites below. ;) Stepping through Custom Activity Code using the Debugger Adding an Options Menu Configuratio...

The move to a service-focused approach to IT service delivery brings with it greater focus on the application layer. When you're faced establishing monitoring a mission-critical enterprise line-of-business (LOB) application, you may feel overwhelmed and...