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Written by Brian Mason on 23 August 2012.

Guru follow up on MP Replicas

I'll track updates to my Guru session yesterday regarding MP replicas in this post. First off, I've had positive feedback from others saying they're excited to try SQL replication to MPs which is great....

Created on 23 August 2012.

Written by Brian Mason on 20 July 2012.

MPLIST fails with error 500, MPCERT works - MP Replicas

I've mentioned before that there is a benefit to using MP replicas in CM07/CM12. The primary site isn't nagged by every single client's policy requests directly (so you can scale better) and you get...

Created on 20 July 2012.

Written by Brian Mason on 16 July 2012.

Kim's Chrome Search

I had a post back in March showing how to use Bing to help you find the same documentation. This weekend, Kim Oppelfens (MS MVP) made a nice post to help us find Microsoft documentation using search...

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Planning for some redundancy in CM07 or CM12?

I've made plenty of arguments for not installing a CAS. Microsoft just added another by giving us the ability to join a primary to a new CAS in SP1. But what about the idea of redundancy? The worry...

Created on 21 June 2012.

Written by Brian Mason on 05 June 2012.

Getting Valid Clients off a Spreadsheet

I had a request last week from someone wanting to know which of his machines had the CM client on them. "What OU are they in?" I asked. "They're all over the place. Lots of OUs," he replied. "OK,...

Created on 05 June 2012.

Written by Brian Mason on 14 May 2012.

Installing SQL 2012 with a Configuration File

I've always preferred installing SQL with an answer file (configuration file) to save time and keep my installations consistent. That holds true for SQL12 as well, but it seems there are some slight...

Created on 14 May 2012.