Author Archives: johncmorrissey

Quick and easy tip – Xenapp published applications appearing on Start menu? client application folders to the rescue

Posted on December 2, 2014 by johncmorrissey

Really quick and easy one this – just been noticing a build-up of published apps sitting themselves in the root folder on start menu. Quick tip to alleviate this is if you want to place into sub-folders use “Client Application … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 Tech Preview and RDSH

Posted on November 28, 2014 by johncmorrissey

Thought it’d be a good time to give this a whirl. In order to stand up a relevant POC for RDSH (am testing through Azure) following guide is very useful http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn451351.aspx In my environment left the connection broker and web … Continue reading →

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System Center Orchestrator 2012 r2 Quick and Dirty Installation Guide

Posted on February 7, 2014 by johncmorrissey

As it says on the tin 🙂 System Center Orchestrator 2012 r2 Quick and Dirty Installation Guide

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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 r2 – the quick and dirty install guide

Posted on February 6, 2014 by johncmorrissey

So prior to the SCVMM 2012 r2 Installation I had in place : i) Windows 2012 r2 Standard (GUI edition) ii) SQL Server 2012 Standard Then proceeded with the installation System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 r2 Install run-through-on-the-fly

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System Center Configuration Manager 2012 r2 Lab Part 1 – Discovery

Posted on January 20, 2014 by johncmorrissey

My travails through the discovery process – see windows-noob site for some excellent information relating to this and the other system center installation pieces involved. System Center Configuration Manager 2012 r2 Lab Part 1 – Discovery

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How to install System Center Configuration Manager 2012 r2 in a lab

Posted on January 17, 2014 by johncmorrissey

In hopefully easy to follow steps 🙂 Enjoy!

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Deploy to VHD server option in MDT 2013 – Could be just what we need when deploying PVS images!

Posted on January 14, 2014 by johncmorrissey

Recently been working with MDT 2013 and getting to grips with it. As part of my day job have to look after 6 or so PVS farms (with over 20 different vDisks) so time-consuming in itself. One piece I have … Continue reading →

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Windows 2008 r2 – no more service packs!

Posted on October 7, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Wanted to check out end-of-life dates for windows 2008 r2 and came across the MS product lifecycle matrices: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=windows+server+2008&Filter=FilterNO What took my interest there was the service pack support date for r2. From what i see that means there is … Continue reading →

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SCCM 2012 SP1 + App-V 5.0 integration – still need Xenapp?

Posted on August 20, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Interesting scenario we hit recently. Internally we looked to leverage the Xenapp connector for SCCM 2012 and publishing apps via SCCM worked ok. Main pain point was the SCCM client working in the PVS environment – check out previous post … Continue reading →

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vSphere 5.1i virtual machine – wanna move it,its powered off and can’t – what gives?

Posted on July 26, 2013 by johncmorrissey

Recently had an issue where i couldn’t migrate a powered off VM from one datastore to the other – the migrate option was grayed out (yep i could a scp but i was feeling lazy :)) – thing that tickled … Continue reading →

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