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Managing Dynamic Memory with SCVMM 2008 R2 sp1
Windows Server 2008 R2 sp1 introduced two key enhancement to Hyper-V, dynamic memory and remoteFX....
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/29/2011
Microsoft Virtual Academy
I don’t think data centre management or the private cloud is particularly difficult to learn, but it...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/24/2011
Orange Data Centre part 7–Self Service Portal interacting with the business
Getting your head around the self service portal requires some thought and careful planning, not...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/24/2011
Orange Data Centre part 6 – Self Service Portal data centre administration
Getting started with the Self Service Portal (SSP) for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/23/2011
Applied Business Intelligence
Like many IT Professionals, I love my gadgets but what really matters is what you do with them – so...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/21/2011
Orange Data Centre part 5– Installing Self Service Portal
First an apology. One of the reasons I stopped trying to turn my laptop into a mobile data centre...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/18/2011
Farewell old friend–time to say goodbye to SQL Server 2005
It always nice to see historic aircraft , and vintage cars out and about rather than stuck in...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/16/2011
Orange Data Centre part 4–hold the phone
I was going to do The next part of setting up my Dell Covet as a data centre install System Center...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/14/2011
Orange Data Centre part 3 – Installing SCVMM
In this post I am going to setup System Center Virtual machine Manager 2008 R2 (SCVMM)...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/09/2011
Orange Data Centre Part 2 – Getting ready for SCVMM
I now have hyper-V running on my shiny new Orange Dell Covet (Precision 6500) and in order to manage...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/07/2011
Orange Data Centre - part 1 introduction
Dell have kindly loaned my a very Orange Dell Precision M6500 (aka Covet) and I plan to use it to...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/04/2011
BI for small business
When I applied to join Microsoft nearly 4 years ago I had to give a presentation on olap for...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/03/2011
SQL Server and dynamic memory with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 sp1
Running SQL Server in a virtual machine is a good thing for many reasons however there are two basic...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/28/2011
EduGeek
I reckon the IT Professionals working in education have some of the most demanding jobs in in the IT...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/25/2011
Moving virtual machines in parallel or in serial?
If I want to copy 10 files from server A to server B it doesn’t matter whether I copy them one at a...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/22/2011
Normal Service has been resumed
I’ve just got back from 5 weeks off in NZ to celebrate my 50th lap of the sun, hence the guest posts...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/17/2011
System Center Essentials and the Self Service Portal
I was looking at the Self Service Portal (SSP), a free add-on to System Center Virtual Machine...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/14/2011
Getting Started with SharePoint and SQL Server Reporting Services – a guest post by Jess Meats
One of the capabilities of SQL Server is the ability to create and publish rich reports on your...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/08/2011
SCE Sunday the boxed set
I have now completed my tour of Systems Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 and here is the complete list...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/06/2011
SCE Sunday part 13 – Reporting
System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) relies on SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to show what’s...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/30/2011
The future of the Domain Controller–A guest pot by John Donnelly
Andrew asked a really interesting question back in December about the future of domain controllers....
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/27/2011
IT Process Automation for Microsoft System Center a Guest post by Greg Charman
I met Greg Charman, one of the ex-Opalis experts who now works for Microsoft a couple of weeks ago...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/24/2011
SCE Sunday part 12 - Virtual machine management
My demo environment for this series on System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) is all running one one...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/23/2011
Project Atlanta part 3–Monitoring
In the last part of my series on Project Atlanta, the new cloud based SQL monitoring tool from...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/20/2011
Project Atlanta part 2–Installation
Following on from last post I thought I had better fire up Atlanta to see what it cold find out...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/19/2011
Project Atlanta part 1 – Introduction
In the post Christmas rush to get fit the well off will have personal trainers assigned to them to...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/18/2011
War on Cost – the Movie
One of the best events I went to last year was the War on Cost run by Inframon at the Cabinet War...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/17/2011
SCE Sunday Part 11 – Restore
The test of any backup is can you get back to where you were, so in this weeks screencast I have...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/16/2011
BETT Notes and queries
I am at BETT the largest education IT show in Europe for primary and secondary education , and...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/15/2011
A gentle introduction to Opalis, Automating the Ordinary
I go to many sites and get offered a lot of coffee , however it never turns out he same as there is...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/11/2011
SCE Sunday Part 10 – Backup
Over the last few weeks I have managed to setup most of the elements of Systems Center Essentials...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/08/2011
Making sense of SQL Azure reporting
In order to understand why you might want use the new Reporting Services in SQL Azure you need to...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/07/2011
Looking backwards over a decade of Microsoft BI
It was in early 2000 if memory serves that I first used OLAP Services in SQL Server 7 and Cognos...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/05/2011
SCE Sunday part 9 – Authoring continued
When I made my last System Center Essentials video on authoring , I realised there was too much to...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 01/02/2011
Active Directory for Demos
Are you bored setting up domain controllers for your demos to work with, not sure of all the prompts...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/23/2010
Virtualised Domain Controllers
My standard demo rig has a separate virtual machine (VM) running my domain controller(DC), I...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/22/2010
How Dense are you?
One of the drivers to moving to the cloud be that public or private is the promised reduced...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/17/2010
Conversations on the Cloud
One way to get interesting interviews is to put a group of people with differing views in a room and...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/16/2010
Support calls in TechNet Subscriptions
If you are an IT professional working with Microsoft products you need a TechNet subscription in the...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/14/2010
SCE Sunday part 8 – Authoring
In this weeks episode of my review of System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) I want to review the...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/12/2010
SQL or No SQL ?
I have a post on NoSQL but as Azure moves on it’s looking a little long in the tooth so I thought it...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/09/2010
Beta to release upgrade paths for Windows Server 2008 R2 sp1
I see loads and loads of threads tweets and forum questions which run along the lines of “What is...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/07/2010
Microsoft BI and Kerberos
I was briefing a bunch of partners the other day, and during coffee I went off piste and did a short...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/05/2010
SCE Sunday part 7– Software Deployment
Deploying software has traditionally been a major headache for IT Professionals, and System Center...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/05/2010
What is the Private Cloud?
One of my most read blog posts is Private Cloud? which means that the private cloud is of interest...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/02/2010
Search and deploy
It’s a sad fact of life that search doesn’t always get you that answer you were looking for. ...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 12/01/2010
SCE Sunday part 6 – Managing Updates
Possibly the best thing about System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE) is the way it takes the pain out...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/28/2010
SQL Server performance in a virtual world
Despite doing quite a few posts and talks on Virtualising SQL Server, I am still getting the odd...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 11/23/2010