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I was installing the DPM 2010 Beta (finally) and had an issue trying to get the SQL 2008 to install. Finally figured out that I had the install files stored too deeply in a network share. I figure this out by running the SQL install directly and when it when to check prereq’s it had [...]
So I am a bit late realizing this, but the Beta for DPM 2010 is available now on the Connect site. I haven’t read anything on it yet, so mainly I am just posting this to make myself look into it. https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=840&DownloadID=22070
If you see this: ‘VMName’ failed to initialize. Could not initialize machine remoting system. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0×80004005). Could not find a usable certificate. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0×80004005). Then this could be your answer: Symptoms and resolution: § You may be unable to start or connect to virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 or [...]
Of the new features coming in the R2 versions of Windows Server 2008 and SCVMM, I think these two are the obvious winners: Support for Live Migration: With Windows 2008 R2 adding support for Live migration, it’s now added as a new migration option in VMM R2. Live migration requires the source and destination host [...]
When I first heard that Microsoft was going to release a “Service Desk” product, I was actually kind of excited. I heard about it at MMS in 2006 (I think) and the things that they were planning for their Service Desk product sounded really useful and even a bit forward thinking. Evidently, what they intended [...]