Posts made in June, 2011

Today, I was asked to generate a new report of the mobile devices which are currently syncing with our Exchange environment, which is something that I have done a few times before, but to complete the exercise I used to parse the HTML logs from the frontend web servers, and then run some filters to figure out duplicate connections etc. As you can appreciate the exercise was not the fastest in the world to complete, and still needed a fair amount of massaging after, to generate a nice chart. This time around, I decided to take a new look at the process and created a new function which would gather the information directly from the exposed detail in the CAS server and utilize the command-let get-activesyncdevicestatistics to speed up the exercise and generate...

So, you have followed the instructions, adding your Remote Desktop Session Hosts into the correct Groups, and Added your Remote Desk Web Access Server into the Local group of each of your Session hosts but for some ungodly reason when you check the event log on your Remote Desktop Web Access Server you continue to see errors. Looking at the error “RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Management” with Event ID 1010 is reporting an Access Denied to the WMI interface on the Remote Desktop Session host; however after tripped checking that the Computer Account for this server the is listed in the local security group “TS Web Access Computers” on the Session host and even rebooting the hosts, this issue will not clear.   The RemoteApp Connection Management...

It’s official, the next member of the System Centre Family has just reached the Beta milestone and is ready for download right now. take a look at the SC blog here and grab a copy of this really interesting technology. In this new version Microsoft have dumped the horrid Java console and placed a brand new Silverlight console in its place, and adding this to the main installer, making the complete installation experience 1000 times simpler and faster!! Out of the box you will get no less than 76 integration components, and that is before you install any of the supplied Integration Packs. Grab the code, and give it a...

Lately I have been buried in the middle of a restructure of all the library servers which have over time started to appear with each of the different versions of SCVMM we have deployed to support specific scenarios or requirements. The process has been pretty interesting as I learn about some limitations in the tool, but more on that in the next post. For this post, I want to consider storage, managing what the cloud users have access to and what the gaps… There a few ways that work in combination’s to restrict the usage of storage on a cloud.  First let’s talk about creating a cloud, then capability profiles, and finally assigning the cloud to a user role.  When creating a cloud ,based upon your selection of host groups, the capacity that is...

Microsoft have been busy the last 24 hours showing off some of its UX for the new Windows 8 OS, Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky’s keynote at D9, followed a few hours later with a Windows 8 Preview at Computex in Taipei. Microsoft and Engadget have dropped the first in a series of video’s which will be made available over the next 12 months as a teaser of what is coming… Take a look!