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So apparently, Windows 8 planning slides got leaked. A good discussion about what is contained in the slides can be found in this blog post: Long story short, these slide decks are chock full of internal thinking on Windows 8 — everything from customer target audiences to the Windows 8 developer market to the Windows [...]
So a TechNet wiki is coming, as stated by Keith Combs here: three big things we focus on for all TechNet scenarios are Content, Discoverability, and Participation. We really want to invite participation from everyone and what better way to combine that with discovery and content than to use Wiki technology? Later this year TechNet and [...]
So the System Center guys have provided a place for people who work with System Center products to see a conglomeration of posts from various professionals who have registered to Blog about System Center products. How fun… Blog Posts by System Center Influencers Get the feed. Below are the most recent posts from several of [...]
I was installing the DPM 2010 Beta (finally) and had an issue trying to get the SQL 2008 to install. Finally figured out that I had the install files stored too deeply in a network share. I figure this out by running the SQL install directly and when it when to check prereq’s it had [...]
So I am a bit late realizing this, but the Beta for DPM 2010 is available now on the Connect site. I haven’t read anything on it yet, so mainly I am just posting this to make myself look into it. https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=840&DownloadID=22070
As a follow up to my earlier post about the Remote server Administration Tools for the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), I thought I would post a link to the RTM version. It took a bit to find it. A search on Microsoft’s site wasn’t helpful to me. I finally found a reference on Ben’s [...]
We have been having issues at work for a while where a user gets “cannot load the locally stored profile” and a temporary profile is created. It gets to be quite frustrating for the users because each time they log in they lose any settings that they have made. Apparently, we arent’ the only company [...]
Previously, I blogged about issues I was having where old recovery points were not being expired/removed from my DPM servers. I had to open a ticket with Microsoft, and worked with them to determine the cause, and since then, they have released a fix. The fix that Microsoft developed is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aee949aa-d3e7-4b0f-b718-00b7c20f1257&displayLang=en A few people [...]
We have several (15 or so) Hyper-V hosts running a number (126 or so) guests. We use DPM to backup our servers, but only a few of our VMs are backed up at the host level. Most are backed up as regular clients. I have been having trouble with a couple of the ones that [...]
Admin tools for Windows 7 (RC). Windows 7 rocks so far. I just got to the point where I decided to install the admin tools though. Installing Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC You must be either a member of the Administrators group on the computer on which you want to install the [...]