So it was announced late last week that the R2 wave Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 products is to be RTM on October 18th 2013. In parallel to these releases Microsoft is also going live with the long awaited Windows 8.1. This is surely the biggest date in Microsoft’s calendar this year, the…
I got bitten by this one for the second time today until I realised I’d seen it before. The symptoms are a failure to complete the installation of the Data Warehouse Configuration step during a System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 installation which causes a roll back of the whole install like so: The setup.log…
Whilst searching for a SQL Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guide I stumbled across this link http://bit.ly/A8nQsI (69MB zip file) which allows you to download 92 current (and some past) IPD guides in one fell swoop. Really handy to keep hold of as a point of reference whether you’re a multi-skilled consultant or internal sys admin, these…
I came across this one recently and found it was a pretty simple fix so I thought I should share it as it’s one of things that would annoy you otherwise. I’ve been working with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to replace our existing monitoring system and I haven’t touched it for a weeks…
More than patches 