March 17 2010 10:25 PM

PowerShell Scripts for System Center (Master Collection)

I've started gathering all the System Center-related PowerShell scripts I use from System Center Central (and a few from elsewhere) so I could have a convenient reference point. Here's the first round, but there's a lot more to be added. Here are the cat

March 10 2010 10:01 PM

Virtual System Center Part 2: Guidance on Dynamic VHDs (Thin Provisioning) for Production Workloads

The answer on dynamic virtual hard disks (or thin provisioning, in VMware terms) has become more nuanced over time. A few years ago, the answer was "not for production workloads". As with many situations, the answer today is "it depends". In part 1 of th

March 10 2010 4:05 PM

A selection of ‘How Do I?’ video for System Center Products

System Center "How Do I?" Videos These short videos focus on specific tasks and show you how to accomplish them in System Center. Subscribe to the System Center videos RSS feed to see new content every month. Click here for the link Nice!

March 09 2010 2:02 AM

Essentials 2010 Virtualization Management: PRO Tips in SCE 2010

In a previous post, we looked at how System Center Essentials 2010 leverages SCVMM 2008 R2 functionality to perform a virtual-to-virtual (V2V) conversion of VMware guests (see Test: Essentials 2010 Virtualization Management: Converting VMware Guests to H

March 06 2010 10:51 AM

POST OF THE WEEK: And the winner for week 12 is...

Our winner for week 12 (Feb 20th) is Silvio B. for his System Center Virtual Machine Manager Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) script. You can download the fruits of Robert's labor at VMM2008 - P2V Script Nice work Silvio! We have to put your name into the hat f

March 03 2010 4:12 PM

Review: NetApp Management Pack Appliance Watch 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Virtual Machine Manager

There is a new management pack for monitoring NetApp devices for System Center Operations manager 2007 R2. This management pack can be used to integrate both SCVMM, SCOM and NetApp! The Management Pack is a big improvement compared to the old version 1.4

February 25 2010 8:28 AM

How to Add Hardware to a Windows 2008 Server Core Installation

Windows 2008 Server Core can be a challenge sometimes. I ran into some trouble adding hardware to a server core install and wanted to document how to get around it. To add hardware to a server running a Server Core installation Follow the instructions pr

February 22 2010 8:48 PM

How to Identify your Windows 2008 Version and Hyper-V Compatibility (SKUs and Retrieval Methods)

I was working on a System Center project, needed to retrieve this info, and found some info on MSDN about how to query Windows 2008 Operating System SKUs. In this case, i was checking for Hyper-V compatibility, but no doubt you may want this info for oth

February 13 2010 9:06 AM

Windows IIS MP; Is it working? Yes!

We started to get these error in our Hosted Solution for a client with the new IIS MP for Windows 2008, at first I thought was a but in the MP because the IIS NLB Clustered system seems to be working. Therefore the MP is raising a false error…. wow I was

February 12 2010 2:21 PM

Test: Essentials 2010 Virtualization Management: Converting VMware Guests to Hyper-V (V2V Conversion)

While System Center Essentials 2010 supports management of Microsoft server virtualization technologies, including Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Hyper-V (all flavors RTM to R2), it does not support management of VMware hosts (ESX or vSphere servers)...VMwar