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October 2008 - Posts

• My HA/Fault Tolerance made front page of today's Tech Republic Network Administrator article!

  I have been blogging for Tech Republic and all my posts have been very well received. As I checked my mail today, I was flattered to see yours truly's post at the front of the Network Administrator newsletter! Here is the post: http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-12849-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=277370&messageID=2626679 Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:20 AM by Brad Bird | 1 Comments

• How to determine consulting fees

  I happened on some really useful information today that I would like to share.  The original source is here: http://www.consultantjournal.com/blog/setting-consulting-fee-rates Setting consulting fees is a challenge for independent consultants.  Read More... Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 5:38 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Guidance for OpsMgr 2007 hardware purchasing and sizing

  I was monitoring some community sources today and saw value in dedicating a post to guidance for both hardware selection as well as sizing for OpsMgr. There was a post made in April last year.  See below: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/04/10/opsmgr-2007-hardware-guidance-what-hardware-do-i-buy.aspx Read More... Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:25 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments Attachment(s): OpsMgr 2007 Hardware Recommendation.xlsx

• Putting the RMS in Maintenance Mode in OpsMgr 2007

  I have received quite a few questions regarding my post on this earlier this year.  The original post is located here: http://owsug.ca/blogs/brad/archive/2008/07/15/Hot-shot-OpsMgr-maintenance-_2D00_-No-alerts.aspx Let me start by saying that I did Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:19 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• How do I know which Hotfixes have been applied to which agents in OpsMgr 2007?

  I was recently researching this very issue and found this very useful blog post originally made by Kevin Holman.  To add to this, I would like to mention that the roadmap plans for OpsMgr have changed and there is no longer an SP2 scheduled to be Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:38 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Using the Exchange 2007 converted Management Pack and Mail Store Targeting in a Distributed Application - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

  I was recently working with another colleague from Infront Consulting on a contract.  My colleague is John Hann , he is a MOM MVP and we were tasked to update a SCOM environment to SP1 and incorporate new features like Savision Live Maps and Cross Read More... Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 9:40 AM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Mad Scientist fever, time to experiment with upgrading my Dell Latitude part 2

  OK!  I received the drive caddy.  The blank drive caddy had p/n 4P124.  I am not sure if that is a Dell p/n but the part arrived from http://www.parts-people.com .  I went out and got a 120GB 5400RPM 2.5inch laptop internal IDE drive. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:07 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Making a USB stick bootable for Vista or Server 2008

  Wow, after trying this out I could not believe how easy it was... I was working for a couple of hours last night with MagicISO to no avail.  I needed no utilities...  Just CMD and diskpart. Here is what I did: (Thanks CANITPRO Blog!!!) Open Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 1:56 PM by Brad Bird | 2 Comments