Visual-Studio on When Software Attacks!

Migrating to SCVMM 2012 R2 in a TFS Lab Scenario

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I moved our SCVMM from 2012 with service pack 1 to 2012 R2. Whilst the actual process was much simpler than I expected, we had a pretty big constraint imposed upon us by Lab Manager that largely dictated our approach.

Fixing Lab Manager environments with brute force

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

As you’ve probably seen, our Lab Manager/SCVMM 2008 R2 upgrade to SCVMM 2012 SP1 was not the smoothest in the world. The end result was a clean lab manager and SCVMM install, but a raft of virtual machines that had previously been part of environments.

Things to remember when building virtual machines for a lab manager environment

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

As you will have read on both mine and Richard’s blogs, we have recently upgraded our Lab environment and it wasn’t the smoothest of processes.

However, as always it has been a learning experience and this post is all about building VM environments that can be sucked into Lab and turned into a Lab environment that can be pushed out multiple times.