Windows VM Templates

56 days ago

Leo has written an excellent article that outlines the process to create small, properly offset aligned, windows templates…

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Posted by Mr-E at 16:28

SCCM 2007 and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Video Walkthrough

74 days ago

Here’s a nother useful link for information (and nice videos) of SCCm 2007 working with MDT 2008.

Take a look yourself here

Posted by Mr-E at 12:13

Simple, Scalable Deployment with BDD 2007

74 days ago

Amongst the mass of work I have at the moment, I’m looking at upgrading my companies implementation of BDD (Business Deployment Desktop) from BDD 2007 to MDT 2008 (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit), which will bring some benefits and officially support the deployment of servers through this technology.

In talking with one of the main engineers who manages the environment…

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Posted by Mr-E at 11:57

How to Install SCCM 2007 with A Clustered SQL Server

74 days ago

One of the limitations with SMS2003 (although I’m sure people worked around it) was that it didn’t support a clustered SQL back-end …

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Posted by Mr-E at 11:51

Enabling iSCSI Adapter on Broadcom 5708 on R805

82 days ago

I mostly work with data stores and servers that are Fibre channel connected, although my home setup uses iSCSI, however, I see the take-off of iSCSI increasing, particularly with virtualisation and so this article is useful to help configure iSCSI on a Dell R805 (the company I work at is just in the process of purchasing some of these boxes). Like Todd mentions…

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Posted by Mr-E at 11:04

Virtual Centre DB best Practices

109 days ago

These are notes of Scott Lowe, who was able to attend VMWorld this year. Very useful reference….you can find his blog entry here

Posted by Mr-E at 13:16

VMware Proven Practice - Integrating Netbackup 6.5.1 with VCB

117 days ago

The newly revitalised VIOps website seems to be picking up some interest…

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Posted by Mr-E at 22:50

Boot ESXi from PXE - Cool!

150 days ago

I’m all for automation and centralisation – it makes many things a LOT simpler and easier to manage….

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Posted by Mr-E at 23:25