Ben Armstrong, a Program Manager on the core virtualization team at Microsoft recently posted a blog with powershell and vbscript examples that will allow an administrator to boot up virtual machines (built with Windows Virtual PC) directly via scripting. He argues it will provide the following benefits:
- Automated testing
- Patch deployment
- Faster launch
Read his blog to view and download the scripts.
Microsoft is offering a free eBook covering its prominent virtualization technologies that include -
- Server Virtualization (Hyper-V, Server 2008 Virtualization, Virtual Machine Manager 2008)
- Application Virtualization (App-V)
- Desktop Virtualization (Enterprise Desktop Virtualization and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)
- Presentation Virtualization (Terminal Services)
- Profile Virtualization (Roaming Profiles, Folder Redirection, Offline Files)
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The Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner is designed for administrators who want to assess the overall health of their Active Directory and network infrastructure. The tool identifies common problems that can prevent your network environment from functioning properly.
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This Asset Intelligence Catalog Update can be installed on computers running Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 SP3 or System Center Configuration Manager 2007 with no service pack installed. This update adds new software titles and several additional updates to the Asset Intelligence catalog without modifying any custom Asset Intelligence catalog information.
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Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP1 customers. For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB968012.
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SCOM & SCCM Add-In
Visio Add-In for System Center allows IT professionals to visualize data from the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) by generating the diagrams for each machine configured for it.
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Products: SMS 2003, SCCM 2007
Issue: SMS Advanced Client Installation
When you try to install SMS Advanced Client on a system, you receive an error log at ccmsetup.log file referring –
MSI: SMS Advanced Client does not support per-user installations
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A group policy setting can suppress any notification for required reboot avoiding the system to never reboot (possible) neither notify the user for a reboot. This can affect corporate systems where users typically are not actively involved in cycled update patching and generally hate for any patching involving reboot. This article will discuss different group policy settings that can impact either a computer or a user’s configuration for setting Automatic Windows Update for the system.
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