Chris's Blog - Just weedin around Microsoft
Hyper-V: Can’t delete Virtual Machine with ‘Operation cannot be performed while the object in current state’
There are situations, especially when running your virtual infrastructure on Storage Area Networks...
Author: ChrAd Date: 06/24/2010
SCVMM & Failover Cluster Host Fails with Error 10429 – Older version of VMM Server installed
Recently, I had the unfortunate task of moving the System Center VMM Database off of a SQL cluster...
Author: ChrAd Date: 06/15/2010
Reporting Dashboard for Bugs & Tasks in TFS 2010 – Monitor your Sprints closely
If you spent some time reviewing my blog on how to build a “reporting” dashboard that shows status...
Author: ChrAd Date: 05/13/2010
MDT 2010 Update 1 including User-Driven Installation Beta Released
Yesterday was a big highlight for my team. For the past 14 months, my direct team has worked...
Author: ChrAd Date: 05/12/2010
DPM 2010 Windows 2008 Backup Requirements - Checklist to get started right the first time!
For users who are new to DPM (like me a few months back), you will find yourself often repeating the...
Author: ChrAd Date: 05/11/2010
Wait a minute… Virtual Machine isn’t “highly” available though it is on a Clustered Host?
It is possible, albeit an edge case, that you have both clustered (highly available) and...
Author: ChrAd Date: 05/09/2010
Rebuild of Server causes DPM 2010 Agent to not successfully register – SetDPMServer.exe
We recently had a failure with one of our Hyper-V farm hosts that caused us to quickly rebuild the...
Author: ChrAd Date: 05/08/2010
Managing CPU Performance in IIS 6.0 using Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM)
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Author: ChrAd Date: 05/07/2010
VhdTool & “Save your bacon” – Extend base virtual machine while snapshots exist is bad JooJoo
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Author: ChrAd Date: 05/04/2010
The Inside & Out of Authentication in IIS – Anonymous, Basic, Integrated, and much, much more!
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Author: ChrAd Date: 05/03/2010
IIS 6.0 Migration Webcast - Options Pre-MS Deploy Days
On several occasions, I’ve gotten asked to please provide access to some of the content I did...
Author: ChrAd Date: 04/29/2010
IIS 6.0 – Preparing for Disasters & Backups for you configuration and content
I recently was asked for a couple of my old IIS presentations that seemed to have been lost on...
Author: ChrAd Date: 04/28/2010
TFS 2010 Upgrade to RTM breaks IterationParam reports
With the release of Visual Studio 2010 RTM, we embarked on upgrading from RC1 to RTM. This was a...
Author: ChrAd Date: 04/26/2010
Heading to MMS 2010 – One Presentation & lots of customer discussions…
As many of you already know, Microsoft is preparing for next week’s Management Summit 2010 in Las...
Author: ChrAd Date: 04/14/2010
VMM 2008 Self-Service portal not showing VMs I own – why I ask when I’m in that user role?
For many environments, the Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2’s self-service portal is very useful. It...
Author: ChrAd Date: 04/08/2010
TFS Build Service Account change causes Build Failures - “Working Folder in use” Failures
We recently had a need to add some additional service accounts to run services as we had a single...
Author: ChrAd Date: 04/07/2010
SCVMM 2008 R2 & Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) Migration from one CSV to Another
You often do your job of “planning” for your virtualization farm well in advance of when you can...
Author: ChrAd Date: 04/05/2010
TFS 2010: Adding Scheduling/Planning Hours to MSF Agile Bug Work Item Template
If you are an agile team, you are going to love TFS 2010 and especially it’s crucial dashboard...
Author: ChrAd Date: 04/03/2010
TFS 2010: Using Stories Progress in your Dashboards but scoped to Iteration or Areas
As you’ve seen in my post previously, there are some great ways to enhance reporting in TFS 2010...
Author: ChrAd Date: 04/01/2010
SCVMM & Failover Cluster Manager Failure on “Connect to Virtual Machine”
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Author: ChrAd Date: 03/13/2010
Enhancing TFS 2010 Dashboards – Project Mgmt, Bugs, Builds, etc.
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Author: ChrAd Date: 03/12/2010
TFS 2010 Alerts “Red X” – How do I fix this?
I’ve recently had the pleasure of digging more & more into the TFS 2010 and I’m guilty of...
Author: ChrAd Date: 03/08/2010
Hyper-V Lingering Internal NICs – Unable to Remove
I recently had a Windows Server 2008 R2 server running the Hyper-V role with some Internal NICs...
Author: ChrAd Date: 02/28/2010
Failover Clustering Validation Wizard Fails when Enterprises uses IPv6 and IPv4
Recently, I had a server that I had to forcibly evict from our Hyper-V Cluster farm due to some...
Author: ChrAd Date: 02/05/2010
Failover Cluster Networks & Local Networks – Phantom Network listed in Failover Cluster Manager
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Author: ChrAd Date: 01/10/2010
Visual Studio 2008 – Connecting to TFS 2010 Server
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Author: ChrAd Date: 01/08/2010
Failure during Windows Server 2008 System State Backup & System Writer Missing
For some of those new to DPM 2007, you might find yourself in a situation where a Windows Server...
Author: ChrAd Date: 11/18/2009
Deploying Windows 7 in the Enterprise – A Blueprint for Success
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Author: ChrAd Date: 11/15/2009
Unable to Extend System Volume & DPM Backup Failure: Change the System State backup location
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Author: ChrAd Date: 11/14/2009
Data Protection Manager 2007: Replica is inconsistent on Windows Server 2008
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Author: ChrAd Date: 11/10/2009
Adding IIS Host Headers in DNS using Netdom utliity
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Author: ChrAd Date: 11/09/2009
Differencing Disks & Merging: 80070005 Error … Just one persons Lesson Learned!
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Author: ChrAd Date: 10/02/2009
[Info] – SCVMM R2 Documentation Live on the Web
As you can tell, I’m pretty active in following one of my favorite HOT products released by my...
Author: ChrAd Date: 09/13/2009
Real World Example of Troubleshooting R2 Live Migration using CSV’s
As I’ve mentioned several times, we run our engineering lab on much of the latest &...
Author: ChrAd Date: 09/06/2009
Dynamic Provisioning for ConfigMgr hits the Shelf – TechNet Magazine Sept 2009
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Author: ChrAd Date: 08/30/2009
Fighting Hyper-V Physical Host Time Drift – Utilizing NTP to Synchronize Clocks
My team at Microsoft has an engineering lab, one of which, I’ve spent a lot of time designing and...
Author: ChrAd Date: 08/28/2009
Dynamic Provisioning with VMM: Proxy, Windows Updates, and Scripts
In our environment, there are two things that are critical to success of an environment that is...
Author: ChrAd Date: 07/13/2009
Configuring Servers for deployment as a Configuration Manager Distribution Point (DP)
In order to go from nothing to a finished, completed installation of a System Center Configuration...
Author: ChrAd Date: 07/12/2009
Building a “Sample” SCOM Management Pack for Dynamically Building Virtual Machines based on Performance of physical or virtual machines
In today’s post, I will focus on how I worked with our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) team...
Author: ChrAd Date: 07/10/2009
Using Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2’s Compatibility Mode
If you are like us, we are always on the cutting edge (what do you expect – we work for Microsoft...
Author: ChrAd Date: 07/01/2009
Tomb stoned or Stale Objects not removable in Virtual Machine Manager 2008
For users of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (or R2), you might put yourself in a...
Author: ChrAd Date: 06/29/2009