As 2017 comes to a close I like to sit and think what I have achieved this year and what can be done better looking forward to 2018.  It has been a pretty busy and good year.  The following things happened for me: I passed the following Microsoft exams to achieve MCSE Solutions Export Cloud …

Hey folks.  Just wanted to say a quick hello as I have been extremely quiet on here lately.  This has been due to a combination of different things which  include lots of commuting, personal issues, family issues and of course the dreaded work time!! I am going to try and commit to at least 1 …

Hi all, this is a very quick  post (mostly for my memory!) on how to update ESXi 6.0 to the latest version easily. New features in Update 2 are: High Ethernet Link Speed: ESXi 6.0 Update 2 supports 25 G and 50 G ethernet link speeds. VMware Host Client: The VMware Host Client is an …

If you have inherited a XenDesktop environment or you are just doing an audit and need to know which version of XenDesktop version you are running you can use PowerShell to retrieve that information for you.  The command to issue is: Get-BrokerController This will give you similar output to below where you can view the …

Microsoft have updated their Hyper-V Component Architecture poster to include the changes in the recently RTM’d SP1. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=93c814d0-fe4b-4d5b-b280-1b9807ec9933&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+%28Microsoft+Download+Center%29#tm Description: “This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. It focuses on architecture, snapshots, live migration, virtual networking, storage, RemoteFX and …

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In this article i am going to cover the installation of SCOM 2007 R2. For the installation i am installing it on Windows Server 2003 R2. I have already gone ahead and installed SQL 2005 SP3 onto the server since I am installing everything onto one server. In a real deployment scenario if you monitoring …

In the world we live in today, technology is rapidly changing. To me it seems like about every 2 years you have to learn new technologies just to keep up and in the know. As an independent IT Contractor i constantly feel the need to update my skills in the latest technologies that i can …

If you install WSS 3.0 and you install the default SQL Server Express edition you do not get an option to install the database to a specific location. By default the database is installed in C:\Windows\SYSMSI\SSEE\MSSQL.2005\MSSQL\Data.  If you have it installed on server hardware with drives configured for best performance and redundancy i.e. RAID 1 …