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August 2013 was Automation Month at the Building Clouds Blog!
Augomation? Autogust? Augustomania? Whatever you call it, with 16 Automation Track / Automation...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2013
IT Service Management: Service Manager Service Catalog Migration
Hello Readers! Have you ever tried to move a Service Manager Service Catalogue between a test and...
Author: Kath McBride [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2013
Introducing PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Hello readers! In this blog post I will be introducing PowerShell Desired State Configuration...
Author: Tiander Turpijn [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2013
Application Management - System Center and the Web Platform Installer (WebPI)
In this post I’ll try to introduce you to a technology that has been around Microsoft for a...
Author: Shawn Gibbs [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2013
Automation–Service Management Automation–Utility Runbook Spotlight–Get-SC-Product-Versions
Hello Readers/Viewers! I know I keep posting stuff, but I have so much to get out I hardly...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2013
MAT 1.5 is available (now with NIC recreation!)
I am happy to announce that MAT 1.5 is now available. Grab your copy now: The Migration...
Author: Migration Mark (MSFT) Date: 08/29/2013
Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Solution for Enterprise IT Released to Web
You’ve been hearing about hybrid cloud and hybrid IT for the last year or so. In fact, the...
Author: Date: 08/29/2013
Evaluating Windows Server and System Center on a Laptop (or two, or three) – Failover Clustering (part 1)
How to build a Failover Cluster on a single laptop Continuing on from my Introduction and Fabric...
Author: Dave Northey [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2013
Automation–Service Management Automation Runbook Spotlight–Virtual Machine Startup by Priority (Part 2)
Hello Readers/Viewers! The final (and 4th) post of my 2-part mini-series (after Douglas Adams) has...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 08/28/2013
Automation–Service Management Automation Runbook Spotlight–Virtual Machine Startup by Priority (Part 1.5)
Hello Readers/Viewers! Before we get into this post’s content, I wanted to extend a BIG THANKS...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 08/27/2013
Automation–Service Management Automation–Utility Runbook Spotlight–VMM Custom Property Management
Hello Readers/Viewers! There comes a time when a project’s complexity increases to the point...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 08/27/2013
Automation–Service Management Automation Tip/Trick–Leveraging InlineScript and $Using:Variable with PowerShell Workflow
A question came up on a recent SMA blog post Automation–Service Management Automation Runbook...
Author: Jim Britt [MSFT] Date: 08/27/2013
IaaS Usage and Service Reporting using System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Azure Pack
Following up Brad Anderson & Srikanth’s blog posts here & here, I would like to create a...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 08/27/2013
Automation–Service Management Automation Runbook Spotlight–Virtual Machine Startup by Priority (Part 1)
Hello Readers and Viewers! By now, especially if you are reading this, you likely have seen the...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 08/21/2013
Automation–Service Management Automation Runbook Spotlight–Exchange Distribution List Creation
Hello Readers! I’m excited to provide you all with some cool new stuff that was introduced...
Author: Jim Britt [MSFT] Date: 08/15/2013
Application Management – SQL Server using STEK
I constantly hear around the water cooler and in different places, ‘wouldn’t it be nice...
Author: Shawn Gibbs [MSFT] Date: 08/15/2013
Automation–Service Management Automation–Getting Started with SMA Runbooks
This blog post is going to cover the specifics around getting setup to use Service Management...
Author: Jim Britt [MSFT] Date: 08/14/2013
Automation–Orchestrator Run .Net Script Activity–Unexpected Data Flattening Behavior Workaround
Hello Readers/Viewers! As you saw with our post last week (Automation–An Introduction to...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 08/12/2013
Automation – Orchestrator Back to Basics – Use Cases Spotlight (1 of 5)
With automation getting an increasing focus in our stack and datacenter /cloud discussions, we...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 08/12/2013
Cloud OS Video Series 5–Monitoring the Private Cloud
The Cloud OS Video series is a collection of videos that help you understand the technology,...
Author: Date: 08/12/2013
MAT (Powered by Project Shift) Part 2 – Networking
Welcome to the next installment of the MAT4Shift blog series. As a reference, the first article is...
Author: Michael Greene Date: 08/12/2013
Automation–An Introduction to Service Management Automation
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center...
Author: Jim Britt [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2013
Deployment–PDT 2.5 is now available on the TechNet Gallery
PowerShell Deployment Toolkit version 2.5 has now been posted to the TechNet Gallery here. ...
Author: Rob Willis (MSFT) Date: 08/06/2013
Enabling web applications synthetic transactions as a service
As you may know, there are different ways to give visibility into “client side” monitoring of web...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 08/06/2013
Welcome to the UDM Track
Welcome to the User and Device Management (UDM) Track of the Building Clouds Blog. This new track...
Author: Jeff Buller [MSFT] Date: 08/02/2013
Welcome to the Self-Service Track
Welcome to the Self-Service Track of the Building Clouds Blog. This is a new track that we’ll...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 08/02/2013
Cloud OS Video Series 4–Enabling Chargeback in System Center
The Cloud OS Video series is a collection of videos that help you understand the technology,...
Author: Date: 08/01/2013
Cloud OS Video Series 3-Creating Service Templates using VMware VMDKs
The Cloud OS Video series is a collection of videos that help you understand the technology,...
Author: Date: 07/31/2013
Welcome to the Security Track
Welcome to the Security Track of the Building Clouds Blog. This is a new track on the Building...
Author: Greg Blaum [MSFT] Date: 07/31/2013
Cloud OS Video Series 2–VMware Integration
The Cloud OS Video series is a collection of videos that help you understand the technology,...
Author: Date: 07/30/2013
Evaluating Windows Server and System Center on a Laptop (or two, or three) – Fabric
Building your Domain, Configuring Hyper-V and getting internet access for your VMs Continuing on...
Author: Dave Northey [MSFT] Date: 07/30/2013
Cloud OS Video Series 1–Service Template Building Blocks
The Cloud OS Video series is a collection of videos that help you understand the technology,...
Author: Date: 07/29/2013
Linux operating system deployment and customization with System Center in a VMware environment
If you ever doubted how much heterogeneity you can manage using System Center, this post should help...
Author: Bruno Saille [MSFT] Date: 07/29/2013
Evaluating Windows Server and System Center on a Laptop (or two, or three) - Introduction
Because we don’t all have six servers lying around! The System Center 2012 R2 Evaluation Guide...
Author: Dave Northey [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2013
Deploying a VM to Windows Azure with Orchestrator leveraging the Service Manager CMDB – Part 1
Hello readers! I’m Tiander Turpijn, I’m a Program Manager within the Customer Architecture &...
Author: Tiander Turpijn [MSFT] Date: 07/25/2013
Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Design Guide
Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V provides the guest operating system with unmediated access to a...
Author: Date: 07/23/2013
Application Management - System Center Operations Manager Application Performance Management (APM) .NET Events – What do they mean?
Over the years I have used APM methodologies to track down problems and to assist in building better...
Author: Shawn Gibbs [MSFT] Date: 07/18/2013
How to create a Service Manager Dashboard with SharePoint PerformancePoint - Part 3
In the two previous blog posts, we showed how Service Manager and PerformancePoint should be...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 07/12/2013
Hybrid IT Infrastructure Design Considerations Guide
It’s been months in the making, but it’s finally here – the Hybrid IT...
Author: Date: 07/08/2013
Automation–Orchestrator Tip/Trick–Run .Net Script Activity + PowerShell + Published Data Arrays
Hello Readers/Viewers! It is time for another Tip/Trick – and this time we will take a look at...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 06/27/2013
Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Information Updated for Windows Server 2012 and System Center Service Pack 1
If you’ve ever used the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track documentation, you know that...
Author: Date: 06/21/2013
Application Management – Challenges in Service Templates, Dynamic Connection String and NLB DNS entry
This blog is actually derived from my earlier post about creating a Service Template for DotNetNuke,...
Author: Shawn Gibbs [MSFT] Date: 06/21/2013
How to handle deployment of large memory Virtual Machine’s using Dynamic Memory feature in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
In this post I’ll explain a specific recommendation in setting up the Startup RAM parameter of...
Author: Kandavel KR Date: 06/20/2013
The Infrastructure as a Service Technical Guidance for Hosting Service Providers white paper is now available!
In early 2013, Microsoft released Windows Azure Services for Windows Server. With the release...
Author: Jim Dial - MSFT Date: 06/20/2013
Automation–Orchestrator Runbook Spotlight–Virtual Machine Startup by Priority
Hello Readers/Viewers! Today we are going to take an in depth look at a specific example Runbook...
Author: Charles Joy [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2013
Application Management - Creating the DotNetNuke® Community version Service Template
Today I’ll go through the process I used to create a new service template example for the...
Author: Shawn Gibbs [MSFT] Date: 06/18/2013
How to create a Service Manager Dashboard with SharePoint PerformancePoint - Part 2
In the previous blog post we discuss the background behind Reporting and how Service Manager can...
Author: Anders Ravnholt [MSFT] Date: 06/16/2013
And the winner is…
There were a LOT of entrants in the our Star Wars Xbox 360 giveaway at TechEd North America, but,...
Author: BenHa Date: 06/14/2013