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Monitoring jobs in VMM 2012

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Most of the System Center products are pretty complex beasts.  That’s not to say that they’re not incredibly useful; they are.  However, because there are so many ways that the tools can interact with other elements, making sure that something completed in the way expected can sometimes be a challenge.  Fortunately, Microsoft has added some features to the tool that ease this burden a bit and which helps administrators discover where things are and are not working as expected. When you open the VMM 2012 console, you can go to the Jobs wunderbar.  This area displays all of the jobs that are running or that have recently run.  On this page, you will also see three tabs at the bottom of the window – Summary, Details and Change Tracking. Summary The Summary tab provides exacting information that lets you know exactly why a job failed.  Here, you can see that VMM shows you the specific error that occurred and provides you with some guidance as to how to correct the issue.  Between the error details and the recommended action information, a VMM administrator can more easily track down what’s going on with the operation that failed.  The figure below gives you a look at the Summary tab. Details In the figure below, you can see that VMM \provides you with a step-by-step look at exactly what each job is doing and where a job fails; if a job fails, the step that failed is marked with a red X. This makes the life of the administrator much easier when it comes to troubleshooting issues. Change Tracking Changes are the number one reason that IT

Scheduling Background Jobs in Windows PowerShell 3.0

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One of the most common phone calls that the support team gets for Windows PowerShell is "How do I use Task Scheduler to schedule Windows PowerShell scripts?". As an administrator, you need to have full control over when scripts run in your environment. Perhaps you need run a script only during a one-off maintenance window or maybe you want to schedule some routine maintenance on a server so that it runs at non-peak times. Although it was possible to use Task Scheduler to invoke scripts in Windows PowerShell 2.0, it was not trivial. What's more, you were responsible for writing code to store the detailed results of your script if you wanted to view them later. In Windows PowerShell 2.0, we introduced background jobs, which let you run commands asynchronously in the background. This allows you to get the prompt back and continue running commands at the command line while the background job runs. In keeping with our sacred vow to respect your investment in learning Windows PowerShell by reusing concepts, we reused jobs in many places with Windows PowerShell 3.0. This blog post introduces just one example of this: job scheduling. This feature allows administrators to schedule background jobs for execution at a later time or according to a particular schedule with a set of cmdlets right out of the box. One of the most valuable features of scheduled jobs in Windows PowerShell 3.0 is that we'll even take care of storing the results and output of your job. Read more at source: Scheduling Background Jobs in Windows PowerShell 3.0  Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://blogs.msexch

Quick take: Steve Jobs – the authorized biography

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Over the next few weeks, you’ll read long, winding reviews of the Steve Jobs biography, penned by Walter Isaacson. Here, you’ll get my quick take on this mesmerizing read in bullet format:

Isaacson pulls no punches. Jobs is regularly referred to as an a**hole and the f-bomb is dropped many, many (many) times. He portrays Jobs as job was. Of course, it’s not all bad. Often by the same people that have unsavory things to say, he’s also referred to as a genius and driven. My take: He was pretty complex as well as unpredictable. Those around them never knew which Jobs they’d get.The story of his rise then fall and then rise at Apple is incredible. A lot of what I read I already knew from news articles and other things I’d read. That said, there was a whole lot more here that has probably never seen the light of day before.Jobs’ illness was awful. The book describes in great detail what Jobs went through with his illness and also indicates that Jobs often ignored doctors, which may have cost him his life. Obviously, he eventually succumbed to his cancer. Although the book was finished shortly before his death, it does go into detail about what eventually forced Steve to step down as CEO. After reading the book, it is clear that death — and only death — was the only thing that would have forced Jobs to give up this position that so defined his life.Pixar. I knew Jobs was CEO of Pixar, but it was never one of those things that stuck in my mind. Reading the book, I realized just how much influence he had on the then-fledgling company. He was truly and artist and

Steve Jobs: Thank you and RIP

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When you think of Google, you think of search.
When you think of Microsoft, you think of Windows, Office, a big company.
When you think of Apple, though, you think of Steve Jobs; Steve Jobs was Apple personified.

I don’t really follow a lot of the comings and goings of company CEOs; the companies will be there long after the CEO departs. However, with Steve, it was different. He epitomized everything – mostly good and some bad – about Apple.

I will admit that I have not always been an Apple fan and still don’t consider myself “hardcore” although I have a MacBook Pro, an iPhone 4, an iPad and and iPad 2. Believe it or not, I don’t have these devices just because they’re made by Apple; I use each one for very specific and functional reasons. My MacBook Pro is, by far, the best made laptop I’ve ever used. The trackpad is perfection, the keyboard is exactly what I need, backlit keys make my work easier and… it just works! it looks good, too. In fact, I’ve found myself relying less and less on the virtual Windows instance that I have running on my Mac and using the native Mac applications instead. I’ve moved from being “anti-Mac” to being right in the middle and having a better understanding for how and why the Mac works like it does.

That’s all thanks to Steve.

It’s a well-known fact that Steve pushed for perfection, but what always came through even more was his sheer joy at releasing to the world new and innovative products that people didn’t even know they needed. He, literally, created new markets and moved Apple from being on the verge of a “has been” computer

Steve Jobs resigns, effective immediately

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I know this isn’t necessarily virtualization-related, but how many of you out there manage your environment or connect to it from an iPhone, iPad or other Apple device?

Steve Jobs has resigned –effective immediately — as CEO of Apple and has asked the board to appoint Tim Cook as CEO. Steve has also asked to stay on as the Chairman of the Board.

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Steve

Steve has been absent from the day to day for quite some time, so from an operational perspective, I doubt the impact will be huge since Tim has been running the show anyway. I do expect, however, to see short-term damage to Apple’s stock price since many people simply equate Apple with Steve. Long term: Business as usual as long as Tim can maintain and enhance the vision.

What do you think? How will this move impact Apple?

Where the jobs are: Cyber security industry is growing & changing

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Many IT pros are worried about the futures of their jobs these days. Will continuing economic problems cause companies to cut back even further? Will “the cloud” move in and shut down companies’ in-house data centers? Will new technologies that are easier to manage mean more experienced admins fighting for fewer positions? One area of IT that’s still looking pretty bright is the security field. As Internet access becomes ubiquitous, cyber security becomes more and more important. Attackers are getting more sophisticated and better organized, and the attack surface is becoming greater, with new opportunities for the bad guys coming in the form of mobile devices and remote access technologies. According to this article in CSO Online, the cyber security market grew from $34 billion to $40 billion from 2009 to 2010, and may be up to as much as $120 billion by 2015. For details, check it out here: http://blogs.csoonline.com/1433/new_cyber_opportunities_security_business_is_growing_and_changing

Thoughts on Music by Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs published a short essay named " Thoughts on Music" criticizing concepts of DRM protection for media files. You can access it here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/
It is interesting to see this sudden change because previously Apple always tried to use various types of protection to restrict iPod and Apple users. I think that more people will be interested in purchasing music online if the idea takes off and other manufacturers and media companies drop DRM techniques they use.

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