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Validating User Resources for Deploying a Service Template
The System Center VMM PowerShell module is very rich and contains more than 400 cmdlets, but it is missing some trivial cmdlets IMO that will help determine if a specific user has enough resources to deploy a new virtual machine or a new service template. Initially it sounds like an easy task, just get the […]
Three Rules for SLA Management: Tips for Enterprise SaaS Providers
While working with a SaaS company that delivers medical information to large pharmacy chains, I was reminded of how Service Level Agreement (SLA) management is a challenging and often overlooked part of delivering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). This is especially true when these services are aimed at enterprise customers. A number of years ago I wrote a […]
Executing System Center Orchestrator 2012 Runbooks from C#
The Problem: System Center Orchestrator 2012 exposes a data service that enables to query and execute runbooks. But working directly with the data service is like executing a WCF service by manually composing the SOAP messages. There are no type-safe parameters, no intellisense and you need to type the exact path of the runbook or […]
Remotely Executing “Real” Exchange 2010 SP2 PowerShell Scripts
You can probably find several blog posts out there about remotely executing simple commands and scripts against Exchange servers, but trying to implement these examples on a “real” functional script, can introduce some annoying problems that nobody seems to mention. This was the case when I tried to develop a web page that was supposed […]