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Attestation failed with a transient error – System Center 2016 TP3 VMM
At the moment I am testing and working in my lab on the Shielded VM and Guarded Fabric scenario. Due to the fact that my Hyper-V hosts in my lab are not having any TPM chip, I am forced to use the...
View ArticleHandling Equivalent Objects in multiple VMM Libraries
Everyone who has to work with a central VMM management server installation and multiple VMM Libraries in different sites has to deal with the equivalent objects. Managing equivalent objects through the...
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How to deploy Windows Server 2016 TP3 onto an SD card?
A few weeks ago I bought a HP Microserver Gen8 (Intel Celeron G1610T, 2,3GHz, 2GB RAM) to continue to use the four 1TB Hitachi HDDs from my previous NAS system and 12GB RAM that are left over from...
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Building a lab environment with Windows 10 Hyper-V and Nested Virtualization
Last week Microsoft has released the newest Insider Build 10565 of Windows 10.-> http://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/10/12/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-10565/The Insider...
View ArticleSystem Center 2012 R2 VMM Update Rollup 8 introduces Port ACL Management
Today Microsoft published the Update Rollup 8 for the System Center 2012 R2 Suite and Windows Azure Pack.-> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3096378But I want to talk about a specific feature...
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Deploying Storage Spaces Direct on a Single Node SOFS Cluster
In my previous post on how to deploy Windows Server 2016 TP3 onto an SD card I introduced you to my new server system.->...
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MVP Summit 2015, Technical Summit 2015 and Experts Live 2015
A week ago I have been in Redmond for the Microsoft MVP Summit 2015. What can I say other than that this was the best out of my last three MVP summits! Great to talk to my MVP friends, the Product...
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Managing Nano Server with System Center 2016 TP4 VMM
This week Microsoft has released the Technical Preview 4 for Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016.->...
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Connecting App Controller 2012 R2 with System Center 2016 TP4 VMM
Let me start this blog post with the explanation why I am writing about connecting App Controller 2012 R2 with SCVMM 2016 TP4. It is not about that I like App Controller more than Windows Azure Pack or...
View ArticleMicrosoft Technical Summit 2015 Sessions online available – What’s new in...
The Microsoft Technical Summit 2015 took place in Darmstadt from 17th November till 19th November and the sessions are now available through Channel 9. Most of the sessions are in German and only a few...
View ArticleSCVMM / SMA runbook is stucked in an infinity loop
Just a quick note to a situation I experienced last week I want to share with you.Assume you have installed the VMM console on your SMA runbook worker to get the VMM PowerShell cmdlets. So you can...
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Microsoft Azure Backup Server – Azure Subscription with spending limit
When you are using Microsoft Azure Backup Server and you have an Azure subscription with a spending limit, you may run into the following issue.Assume you spend all your Azure credit and the spending...
View ArticleHardware requirements for Azure Stack Technical Preview (POC) released
What an early Christmas present! Yesterday Microsoft has released the hardware requirements for the upcoming Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview.What other informations get we beside the hardware...
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Using Operations Management Suite to detect RDP access attempts
The malicious IP detection functionality of OMS can not only detect the outgoing communication from your Azure VM to a malicious target.->...
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Azure IaaS ARM Template – Installing BGInfo VM Extension
When you want to install the BGInfo VM extension during the Azure VM deployment through an ARM template, then you have to add the following lines to your template.{ "apiVersion": "2015-06-15", "type":...
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Azure IaaS ARM Template – Enable Boot Diagnostics per Default
One great thing Microsoft had introduced last year to the Azure platform was the boot diagnostics capability. Looking at an ARM template you can add the following lines to the VM definition to activate...
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Azure Security Center – keep your Azure VMs up to date
Actually the Azure Security Center is in public preview, but nevertheless it is a very useful extension to the existing Azure services.->...
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The first Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview is coming this week
Today Mike Neil, Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Cloud, announced that the first technical preview of Microsoft Azure Stack will be available on January 29.->...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Stack Technical Preview Download is available
A few minutes ago Microsoft opened the download for the Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview! Taking the cloud to your datacenter and start using Azure Stack!->...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Stack Technical Preview – Custom ARM templates
When you have written custom ARM templates for your Azure deployments you can reuse them for the Azure Stack Technical Preview. There are only two things you have to look for.First one is the...
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