OCS Inventory - Download Virtual Machine

OCS Inventory - Download Virtual Machine

"The Virtual Machine ocsinventory-ng (or VMOcsinventory-ng) was created to provide an easy and ready-to-use system for those who want to test or run in a production environment the OCS Inventory Next Generation software.

These machines has been tested mainly in VMWare Server 2.x but they are compatible with other VMWare solutions like VMWare Player or VMWare ESXi.

Several distributions are available, allowing you to choose the one you prefer :

Debian 6.0 32 Bits

Debian 6.0 64 Bits

Ubuntu Server 11.04 32 Bits

Ubuntu Server 10.04 64 Bits

CentOS Server 5.7 32 Bits

Other virtual machines will be available soon, including Fedora and Centos."

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Uninstalling the SCVMM Agent from Windows Server 2008 Core

In order to remove System Center Virtual Machine Manager Agent from a Windows 2008 Server Core Version, you need to locate the uninstall string from regedit:

Open CMD and type regedit.exe, then Locate the follow registry key:HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Then, just run that Uninstall string in command line:

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Converting Phisical to Virtual P2V

"Disk2vhd is tool from Microsoft's Sysinternals group that allows system administrators to create virtual hard disk images (VHD) of running operating systems loaded on physical hardware.
VHDs are the Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format used in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs)."

"There are other physical-to-virtual tools that are available to create images out of installed operating systems running on physical hardware; the main advantage of the Disk2vhd tool is that you can run it on a system that is up and loaded as it uses the Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability to create a point-in-time snapshot of the volumes you want to include in a conversion.
The Disk2vhd tool also allows for the ability to create the VHDs on other local volumes including the active one being converted."

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How to Install SQL Server 2008

"A Step by Step guide to installing SQL Server 2008 simply and successfully
with no prior knowledge

Developers and system administrators will find this installation guide useful, as will
seasoned DBAs. It will teach you the basics required for a typical, problem-free
installation of SQL Server 2008, allowing you to add other components later if you wish."

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Step-by-step Microsoft Lync 2010 Consolidated Standard Server Install Guide

"As many of you may well know the long awaited public release candidate RTM of Microsoft Lync 2010 (previously Communications Server ‘14’) is now available for download. This major new release offers a radical difference to the previous architecture and unlike its predecessors (Communications Server 2007 R1/2 and to a certain degree Live Communications Server 2005) offers a streamlined and consolidated deployment, great for smaller scale implementations which are not overly abundant to date.
This guide (update: video version now available here) will run through a consolidated standard edition install (without voice gateway integration, I’ll try and come back to this later), whereby all roles will be deployed on a single virtual machine except monitoring, archiving and edge roles – yes this is a supported scenario!"

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OpManager - Monitoring Software

"OpManager is a complete, end-to-end network monitoring software
that offers advanced fault and performance management functionality across critical IT resources such as routers, WAN links, switches, firewalls, VoIP call paths, physical servers, virtual servers, domain controllers & other IT infrastructure devices.
Further the network monitoring software, combines an easy-to-use interface that lets you quickly deploy the product for production and also apply your organization's monitoring policies across multiple devices quickly."

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OCS Inventory NG

"Open Computers and Software Inventory Next Generation is a technical management solution of IT assets.

Since 2001, OCS Inventory NG tries to make the automated inventory of computer hardware more efficiently .
Today, our solution not only extends to the inventory. It includes a sophisticated deployment system, interfacing with third tier applications, a network devices scans, and more..."

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