Month: April 2018

Newsletter: April 28, 2018

Hi all, Another very busy week and so glad it is the weekend!  I hope everyone had a better week then I did!  For example, I thought I would get an iDRAC working in my R710 fairly quickly.  But it actually took 2 hours.   I wrote about it here since I really want no one … Continue reading Newsletter: April 28, 2018 →

So, you cannot use tags to protect your VMs?

In Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO) you have by default the ability to protect virtual machines by vSphere tags, and it works pretty good. However, I know a customer who is on vSphere 6.0 and tags are not working so they need a new method of selecting VMs to be protected.  It turns out we have … Continue reading So, you cannot use tags to protect your VMs? →

Checking out Admin Center

I had looked at Project Honolulu and I liked it.  So when it became Admin Center, and 1.0 I was excited to check it out.  This is my story of checking it out, and being both excited and sad. Background Announcement - https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/04/12/announcing-windows-admin-center-our-reimagined-management-experience/ Background - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/understand/what-is Overview - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/overview Review - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/16/windows_admin_center_browser_based_server_admin/ Simple MSI to install … Continue reading Checking out Admin Center →