“Must-Have” Tools – Sun VirtualBox

Over the past few years, I’ve bounced between virtualization products in my home test lab, including MS Virtual PC and Virtual Server, as well as VMWare Server and Desktop.  Given the option, I’d love to have a Windows 2008 Hyper-V server to run my home development environment, but given the hardware requirements, I don’t see [...]

SCOM: Monitoring the WSH Version on Windows Agents

Given the severe performance issues that can be caused by SCOM monitoring on hosts without the Windows Script Host 5.7, and the possibility that WSH 5.7 binaries can be replaced with older versions by Windows File Protection (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/955360), I’ve found it useful to use a SCOM unit monitor to monitor managed agents for the expected [...]

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