Hyper-V Server 2012 - Enable SNMP

Well I passed my Office 365 exam in December so am officially a MCITP. Over the holidays I migrated all our VM's from ESXi 4 to Hyper-V 2012 it was easy enough bar our Exchange Box which had been P2V, V2V and V2V'd again and didn't play nice with the Hyper-V drivers.

I decided to go with the free Hyper-V 2012 edition and found it straight forward enough one step that took a little figuring was enabling SNMP for our monitoring software (When I have time I'll go the System Center Route!)

For ease I enabled RDP to the Hyper-V host you can do this from the console or via iLO or whatever out of band management you use.

Open a command prompt Ctrl-SHift-Esc and New task etc.

Type the following

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:SNMP



 Next connect to the host using computer management from a work station or server with a GUI and configure the service as normal











All done 

Office 365 Training Resources

Passed 070-323 a couple of weeks back and the following Jumpstart was invaluable

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/administering-office-365-jump-start-01-office-365-overview.aspx

I'm sitting 070-321 on Wednesday and this series with our partner sub has proved invaluable http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/deploying-office-365-jump-start-01-infrastructure-planning.aspx on 

I've never known so much about Sharepoint!

Also checkout this Technet resource http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852466.aspx

Activate Windows 8 Enterprise without corporate Volume License activation on a business network

Another note for myself folks ran in to this in my lab today

Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise Activation

DPM 2010 for Hyper-V 2008R2

Been tinkering with Hyper V and DPM this week so more for my own reference

 It's fairly straight forward I used this 2 sources to get it going properly

enable Windows Server Backup support for the Hyper-V VSS Writer

Enabling serialized Hyper-V VM backups in DPM 2010 for CSV storage

Server 2012 Install - We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one

Installing Server 2012 Std RTM today in my lab and I came across this beauty

We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one.

The solution turned out to be fairly straight forward. The Windows installer package didn't have drivers for the RAID controller so I was using a USB drive to load them. For some reason if I left the USB in when starting setup, loaded the drivers and then continued the install this occurred however if I insert the key when I need to load the drivers and remove when loaded all works OK!

I found other references to fixes that lead me down the USB drive path but nothing identical. Hope this helps someone

Windows 8 Resources

Given that Windows 8 launched today check these resources out a free eBook preview of "Introducing Windows 8: An overview for IT Professionals" available at http://go.microsoft.com/FWLink/?Linkid=268295 and this series of Jump start videos http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/jj687764

Just back from Exchange Ignite Berlin

I had a hectic few days in Berlin at the Microsoft Exchange Ignite training session thanks to all concerned :) It has however spurred me to up my game a little so here's a start I intend to post any solutions I come across in my day to day workings that could help others so watch this space...