I received a nice report from SCE in my inbox this morning. This report shows the state of all the servers that are being managed by SCE and highlights any areas that need further examination. …

A quick thought. If I have a dozen Windows 2003 Server Products, each coming replete with 5 user cals - does that mean I have 60 available CALs - it does doesn’t it?

I was flicking through a book earlier. You were what! I hear you cry. Actually I had a book on my desk and as I went to move it I noticed it had an interesting …

For the second time in two months my laptop died. A Rock Extreme TI. The video card finally gave up the ghost and threw in the towel. Last time the laptop had overheated somehow and …

Now SCE is running with agents on nine servers it’s time to start addressing the alerts that it has thrown up. The first is a warning about SCE itself telling me the SQL broker has …

Ok, now we’re doing it. SCE installation fired off.
First step, the pre-requisite checker Warns me 2Gb Ram is needed, but the documentation says it should run ok with 1Gb so we ignore the message and …

I’m sitting here in the University Coffee shop, suring the net at a public computer, whilst sipping a nice large latte while pondering how I’m going to access my work email. The computer I’m at …

SP2 is nicely on the machine, no more IPSec problems since modifying the security policies. I’ve set BITS to automatic and installed IIS, am currently in the process of installing IE7 and any other patches …

Three pound weight loss this week. Am trying to get back on track with the low-carb diet but it’s been tough going - and going to get tougher with Easter just round the corner. I …

Now I have the virtual DC up and running it’s time to install a virtual server to run Microsoft SCE (System Center Essentials) as mentioned in a previous post. This will be useful for co-ordinating …