How to move a SCVMM 2012 database to another SQL Server

This post is a guide and reminder for myself on how to move or re-locate a Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 database to another SQL Server. I recently needed to do this procedure and found that because the product didn’t offer a direct option to change the database settings or an option to migrate the […]

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Don’t miss the Windows Server 2012 launch event – …

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Solution for hidden or obsolute devices after doing a P2V or V2V conversion in VMware or Hyper-V

When doing a Physical-to-Virtual (P2v) or a Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration of a Windows-based Operating System to either a VMware or Hyper-V based host you may find that some hardware devices are left installed in the virtual machine after the process completes, this is particularly true for Network Adapters. Following documentation and best practices by normally removing integration tools and device

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SCCM 2007: Setting the drive letter during an Operating System Task Sequence

This is a quick post; primarily for my notes so that I can refer back to later. I recently was having some trouble getting the partition/format drive step in an OS Task Sequence to label the primary system drive as “C”, so after some reading of the TechNet documentation on supported variables that can be

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Veeam Backup Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-V

If you are looking for a professional back-up utility to backup your hypervisor hosts (VMware or Hyper-V) you are in luck. Veeam; who have led the industry in Virtual infrastructure backup solutions for some time now have announced recently a new free edition of their latest product offering called VeeamZIP. To learn more about it and to download a copy visit this URL:

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Windows Server 2012 RTM

Following on from my post a few minutes ago, it is also exciting to read the Windows Server 2012 released to manufacturing announcement which has also been posted over at the Windows Server team blog. There are so many new features that will be introduced with the release of Windows Server 2012, this release will be

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Windows 8 Metro Interface Start Screen

Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone

For some, the wait is finally over! The much-anticipated and talked about release of Windows in Microsoft’s history to-date is now at the release to manufacturing (RTM) milestone. I was only discussing with a colleague today that it seemed as though Microsoft was running late by a week to announce the RTM milestone, after making the commitment to

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Welcome Back!

Well, this is the re-ignition of my old blog now under a new address “rainesy.com”. Sorry it’s been a while; honestly I just haven’t had time to focus on this project. Fortunately, though I have finally got the new blog off the ground now and will be trying my best to write some articles and posts more often from

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McAfee: Today’s update appears to have caused corporate customer computers world-wide to reboot without network access!

It would seem today’s botched definition update sent out to corporate users of McAfee’s anti-virus software has caused Windows XP workstations to fail with DCOM errors which then causes a reboot to occur; finally, upon start up loose network connectivity. This will turn into an absolute nightmare for I.T administrators because in most cases this

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Multiple Exchange Server Accounts now supported in Outlook 2010

It’s been a long while since my last blog post; unfortunately their has just been no time to write anything! In fact this is my first post for 2010, happy New Year everyone! (better late than never!). As the title of this post states; a long awaited feature which now exists in the new Outlook

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