This is a quick and easy fix. If, like many admins, you configure your server with a redundant network connection (colloquially a "team"); and if you have configured even servers to have a firewall ( … more

I figured I should try to get the upgrade from SCVMM 2012 SP1 Beta to SP1 release completed over the holidays. Part of the update required a rebuild of the database (and thus reassociating all agents, … more

I had a need to put together a directory browser, and IIS7 and 8 provide the old standard looking listing (I think it's been the same since IIS 3 on NT).

I looked around and found Mike Volodarsky … more

For the last few weeks I've been chasing a performance problem with web publishing on Forefront TMG. Specifically we have the following environment (which I've dramatically simplified for this blog … more

This past week I've been delving back into configuration of Certificate Authorities - and particularly into the most appropriate URLs for the CDP and AIA extensions in certificates.

In case you're … more

If you search the Internet, you'll likely strike dozens of articles describing how to set static IPs on Solaris Express by disabling NWAM (NetWork AutoMagic) and enabling the legacy physical … more

Hyper-V clustering is a pretty rock solid thing, and Live Migration (introduced as we all know with Server 2008 R2) is virtually identical to VMWare's long-available VMotion technology - pick up a … more

Installing SCCM 2007 SP2 + R2 today on a Windows 2008 R2 server I came across what appears to be a common problem; the SMS Site Component Manager fails to install the SMS_MP_CONTROL_MANAGER component … more