Virtualization

I was working on a certificate services environment where I wanted to renew the certificate of an existing subordinate certificate authority.  I went about using the typical procedure for renewing the certificate, found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776691(v=WS.10).aspx   I ran into a [...]

If you have configured  Logical Networks with IP Pools in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1, you may at some point find yourself wanting to remove that IP Pool for one reason or another.  For example, perhaps the subnet [...]

I ran into a problem where I was unable to register the DLLs for the Service Manager smlets.  In copying the dlls to the c:\windows\assembly folder I received the error “access denied”.  I then took steps to disable User Access [...]

I was recently working on a Service Manager 2012 deployment where the health service was regularly crashing approximately 3 – 5 minutes after it was started.  This resulted in most workflows firing for a minute or two, then crashing.  This [...]

I was working on an implementation of Service Manager and Orchestrator where I was running a significant number of runbooks on a regular basis.  This eventually ended up creating logs for over 200,000 runbook executions.  What I noticed was that [...]

Orchestrator allows us to do some pretty awesome things in the pipeline.  Let’s say that you wanted to deploy several applications and Service Manager had associated those applications to the Service Request.  Orchestrator is smart enough to look at the [...]