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In the third installment of Peter De Tender’s series on Installing Service Mangager 2012 Beta, Peter explains how to set up the data warehouse server. Microsoft best practices state that this should be installed on a separate machine so Peter walks you through, step-by-step, installing the data warehouse manager on a separate VM.

In today’s post, Jeff Hicks discusses SetX.EXE which allows IT pro’s to quickly and efficiently create their own environmental variables. SetX makes the task of adding custom environmental variables to support internal applications or automated processes very easy, especially when this needs to be done on remote machines.

Sean Wilkins continues his discussion on OSPF Area Troubleshooting. In today’s post, Sean reviews link state advertisement (LSA) types and also reviews the different stubby areas and what they allow and deny. From there, Sean dives into common stubby area problems and how they can be resolved.

In this post, Michael Simmons explains FSMO Roles in Active Directory 2008. Michael covers all 5 roles: Schema Master, Domain Naming Master, Infrastructure Master, Relative ID Master and Primary Domain Controller Emulator. Together, these FSMO Roles help prevent conflicts when making changes within the traditional multi-master model.

Lisa Szpunar of TrainSignal explains basic social engineering tactics in this video lesson. Lisa eloquently explains the different techniques used to steal personal information and simple ways companies and individuals can combat these attacks.

In Part 2 of Peter De Tender’s series on System Center Service Manager 2012 beta, Peter walks through the installation processes. Peter provides an excellent walkthrough with screen shots and instructions.

In part 2 of his series on command line event logs, Jeff Hicks discusses how to manage the event logs with the command line and WEVTUTIL.EXE

In this post, Sean Wilkins discusses OSPF areas. Sean first discusses what OSPF areas are and the different types of OSPF areas. From there Sean discusses different issues that can arise with OSPF area setups and how to troubleshoot them.

In Part 2 of his series on Crash Dump Analysis, Michael Simmons discusses the memory dump files themselves. Michael explains which type of memory dump is best for your situation and how to make sure you can find them after they are saved.

Microsoft recently released System Center Service Manager 2012 beta. In this first of a series of posts by Peter De Tender about installing System Center Service Manager 2012, we learn what SCSM 2012 offers and what is needed to get it up and running.