Today I was received an email advising that I’d been awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award from Microsoft in Cloud and Datacenter Management. Needles to say, this was a very humbling moment. I am still at a loss for words, so I don’t really have anything more to add
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Unable to delete duplicate cluster resource for Hyper-V VM
Quick tip: You find yourself with duplicate HA roles for a virtual machine and you’re unable delete the problematic resource… Symptoms: Duplicate cluster roles for a virtual machine. When attempting to delete, you get the error: Error code: 0x8007012f The file cannot be opened because it is in the process
Read moreManaging a Hyper-V Datacenter– Converged Networking and RDMA
Server 2016 brings great new feature called Switch Embedded Teaming (SET). A great overview of SET can be found in this TechNet article. But to summarize, SET basically allows a Virtual Network Adapter to access the features available by RDMA. I won’t go into too much detail on RDMA, there
Read moreConfiguring a network team for a logical Switch in SCVMM
Had a few queries from clients and colleagues who get confused on the workflow for creating a Logical Switch and Port Profile. This quick post is to just run through that process. More info on the design decisions around Logical Network Definitions Host Groups etc. can be found here.
Read moreCreate empty Management Pack from SCOM via PowerShell
Found this one in my toolkit recently and thought I’d share. It’s a little old so the code could do with some optimizing.. What it does: Prompts the script runner for a client number and then asks them to confirm the name for new management pack. If the operator types
Read moreApplying updates (cab & msu) by batch file…
Another one from my toolkit.. Basically run this batch file from a folder with the required update files and it will install them all. Once it is finished it will prompt for any input to restart the server. Enjoy! Dan @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR /R “%~dp0” %%A IN
Read moreSCOM assessment in OMS – getting it going..
Firstly, make sure you have: Admin access to your SCOM environment SCOM management servers are added to your Ops Inslights portal. Enabled the SCOM Assessment solution Then go to the SCOM assessment configuration tile Download the PS1 I ran from one of my SCOM management servers At
Read morePowerShell Tools – Create an ISO
Brilliant little tool Hrisan Dzhankardashliyski at Powershell.com http://powershell.com/cs/media/p/49052.aspx Edit: updated the script block to enable copy & paste 😀 # Author: Hrisan Dzhankardashliyski # Date: 20/05/2015 # Inspiration from # # http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opticalstorage/archive/2010/08/13/writing-optical-discs-using-imapi-2-in-powershell.aspx</a> # # and # # http://tools.start-automating.com/Install-ExportISOCommand/</a> # # with help from # # http://stackoverflow.com/a/9802807/223837</a> $InputFolder
Read moreSCOM – Service Monitor & Remediation
How to create a custom service monitor and automatically restart it For this little demo, we will be using the Print Spooler service and targeting Windows Operating System This will target all version of Server and Client OS but I won’t go into rollups here
Read moreAdding existing VM’s to WAP Subscription using PowerShell
Edit: added Cloud parameter to the script. Deploying WAP for clients, they start creating new clouds, plans and subscriptions which is great!! But how do they add existing VM’s to new users in WAP? Easy….. you guessed it…. PowerShell! So I can’t take the credit here, my sources are found
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