Cerebrata.com: A community success story
(I’m several months behind in putting this out!)A few months ago, Cerebrata had a public beta of their new released Azure cmdlets. I came across the announcement on Twitter and fired it off to others...
View ArticleVMM 2008 R2: Changes from RTM to SP1
Using a script Shay Levy wrote HERE, I have the following list of cmdlet changes that have occurred between Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 and SP1.So below is a listing of the...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Manager: Changes from 2008 R2 to 2012 Beta 1 (LONG)
Using a script Shay Levy wrote HERE, I have the following list of cmdlet changes that have occurred between Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 and the very recently released 2012...
View ArticlePowerShell: State of the Union
I’m not going to go that far back in history to rehash where PowerShell has come from, but I want to talk about where I think it is going.I think it took the fact that the PowerShell icon now appears...
View ArticleVirtual session on sysprep and PowerShell
I did a presentation for the virtual PowerShell chapter of SQLPASS (link HERE) last week.I talked about using sysprep for creating quick OS images and also talked about the new sysprep support now in...
View ArticleInstalling the Cloudera VM using VMware Player
I created a short YouTube video that walks a new user through the process of install VMware Player and then loading the Udacity/Cloudera pre-built VM.This is very handy for people new to virtualization...
View ArticleHadoop and MapReduce basics–Udacity online course
Udacity and Cloudera recently partnered to create an online course titled “Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce”.I really like the course. It’s short and to the point. I think it’s a very good...
View ArticleUbuntu 16.04 - /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Posting this in case it helps someone else while they are searching...I just set up a new 16.04 VM. I wanted to make sure that Python 3 was the default version on the system.I noticed that:$ ls -al...
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