Posts made in October, 2010

System Centre – Self Service Portal V2 As part of the Solution Accelerator program Microsoft has released an extension to the System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2007 R2 application, which extends greatly the functions and features of the original Self Service portal which shipped as part of the original application suite. Currently know as VMMSSP2 (that’s Virtual Machine Manager, Self Service Portal version 2) this toolkit runs along side an existing SCVMM deployment, and by using the power of the SCVMM Command Shell, integrates as a new extension without breaking or destroying your existing investment in SCVMM and any its customisation. Lab Setup Guest Virtual Machines There will be one new virtual machine being introduced into the same lab I set up...

Over the past 3 postings, we introduced the concept of the solution we were going to deploy. Then carefully we introduced, installed and finally configured the DVBLogic applications, before finally testing that these are all working correctly. We followed up in the previous article, with a step by step on installing SageTV, running trough the configuration wizard, and installing a plugin to make our Live TV experience even richer. In this Article we are going to focus on binding these two suites together, so to get our Live TV service working, powered by the DVBLogic applications. Currently,The process is still to complicated, however with the correct encouragement the teams in Frey and DVBLogic will continue to work together and make this process so much simpler...

We continue on the path to HTPC bliss, we now are going to focus on the heart of the solution, and walk trough the installation of the core technology.   In this post, we will install Sage TV 7, and get us to the point where we can connect to our new Satellite Broadcasts!   Installation With nothing to waste, we start off the SageTV_Setup.exe and before we know what is happening the Welcome splash is on the screen. I think you know what to do with the Next  button, and after some tireless reading of really interesting license agreements, we can click on I accept the license agreement and then that nice Next button again. Now, we need to declare who we are for the registration, and decide who can use this install. In most cases this last option will not be...

Now that Virtual Machine Manager 2007 R2 is RTM, and that I need to setup a new lab to evaluate the deployment options for our SSPv2 portal, I thought it would be nice to create an article on how to deploy SCVMM 2007 R2, and as we progress trough to creation of the environment I will post additional information on each module. This article is to guide you through the entire SCVMM deployment process from scratch. We will include the necessary pre-work that is required in order to begin the installation, which includes: Creating the SQL Database Installing the SCVMM Server Installing the SCVMM Administration Consoles Installing the Self Service portal Lab Setup Guest Virtual Machines There will be one new virtual machine being introduced into the same lab I set...

Before we really start on building out new technologies in the lab, we started with the basic services of Active Directory, a Hyper-V host to run the lab within, and a File Server for all our media, and any extra bits we may host. But, most of the technologies we will be looking at, for example SCVMM, Self Service Portal V2, SCOM, for example will all require a SQL server to host there data. So, rather than have many SQL Express installations, or dedicated SQL installs for each technology, I plan to host one central SQL server, in a similar fashion as we would in a real production environment. So, This article is to guide you through the entire deployment process to install and host a SQL 2008 R2 server in out Lab. We will include the necessary pre-work that is...