Recently I made a move to using Windows Server 2008 on my primary development machine. The reason for this was that I needed to use full blown IIS 7 for testing of the product we are building and neither XP or Vista really cut it. I’m in the process of moving my Devs and here are the issues and solutions I have found up to now:
- Webcam. I use a Microsoft Lifecam VX3000. This was an absolute nightmare to install, however I found this post which tells you how to make it work: The link is here
Here’s the steps:
1. Go and get Orca to edit the .msi file lifcam10.msi in the subfolder \lifecam\setup. You get orca with the PSDK. Only install the windows installer TOOLS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255905
2. Open the msi in orca, on the left hand side pane go to the table called LaunchCondition and Drop all the rows except AdminUser.
3. Save and close
4. Run setup.exe for lifecam as normal.
I love working on Server 08. It’s rocket fast and delivers all I need 
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The Ottawa Business Journal from Ontario, Canada reports that N-Able has joined the System Center Alliance. The System Center Alliance is made up of Microsoft Partners, and specifically ISV’s who have technologies which are for and integrate with the System Center Suite of Products. N-Able are different in that they have signed an agreement with MS to integrate their software with the future versions of MS’s System Center Products.
The integration of third parties into System Center has had a checkered history. Some examples which spring to mind are ABC Software and their abortive Software Metering Solution for SMS 2.0, Crystal Reports and their horrific reporting for SMS 2.0 and of course the long running feud with Wise software in regards to SMS Installer.
Read the full article here
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| In scanning my Google Alerts this week, I came across this really useful PDF on tuning and optimising System Center Operations Manager. You can download it from here. Thanks to infront consulting for this one! Well done boys! |
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Sphere: Related Content| Take a look at the document linked on the right. It’s long been the case that the big framework management products have held sway over every machine under outsourced management. Articles such as these are really the tip of the iceberg. Many pundits are telling me that we are moving to a world where managed service providers (called MSP’s) are seriously looking at the Microsoft Management tools in earnest. Unicenter and Tivoli have never been fantastic at desktop management so this is an interesting and some would say well overdue movement. |
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| For just 48 Euros, you can understand System Center Data Protection Manager. As Backup is soooo important to most businesses, I really think if you have any responsibility for system backups, you should understand as much as possible about the options available to you. System Center Data Protection Manager has been architected from the ground up as a leading edge world class data backup and recovery solution so even a cursory look is probably worthwhile. Enjoy! |
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| It’s here! Download the Release Candidate of the OpsMgr 2007 Management Pack Authoring Console and start authoring your own management packs through a graphical user interface (unless you still want to do it in raw XML). |
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| Interested in System Center Mobile Device Manager? Take a look at Jason Langridge’s presentation content by clicking on the linked image to the right… |
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| Need I say more? No… OpsMgr reports in Sharepoint, pure unbridled intranet goodness. Read this post for how to do it! |
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| The Report Authoring Guide for System Center Operations Manager and System Center Essentials is now available. This makes it far easier to add and edit reports that your manager has been screaming for over the last few months! |
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| Michael Campbell has posted an article with slides describing the how-to’s of desktop error management with System Center. For years now, we’ve had a really good idea what our servers are doing but almost no idea about the performance of desktops. The only information we’re really getting is anecdotal and from the help desk. With the increases of WAN bandwidth, coupled with greater client side instrumentation, we’re now able to manage and measure the performance of the desktop. I think most corporate SOE techs are going to be really surprised when they see just how badly their SOE is performing in production. Maybe the end-users are right; maybe it does all keep crashing and maybe it is really slow… Time to find out <grin>. |
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