
ITCamp 2013 – my thoughts
Taking advantage of the fact that Endava was a platinum sponsor, I couldn’t pass the opportunity to attend this years’ ITCamp.

Taking advantage of the fact that Endava was a platinum sponsor, I couldn’t pass the opportunity to attend this years’ ITCamp.
{% include toc icon=“gears” title=“Contents” %} Windows Server 2012 comes with group managed service accounts, an improved version of the original MSA. Ever since Windows Server 2008 R2 was out, I remember reading about managed service accounts (MSA) a new feature that I wanted to check out. You can read more about MSA here, but in essence they are useful because they have automatic password management. Introduction I always wanted to try MSA and was recently in a position to propose using MSAs, but after re-reading the information, specifically “A managed service account can only be installed on a single computer” I decided to skip MSA. However, I did research if anything had changed since 2008 R2 and apparently it has – Doug Symalla on TechNet has a very interesting article about the new Group Managed Service accounts and how they work in Server 2012. ...
In this article I will explain the steps needed to upgrade EVault Director (the actual backup software), EVault Reports and Windows CentralControl.
In my previous article I described the steps to upgrade a 32 bit Web Central Control installation to version 7
I’ve recently had the opportunity to upgrade an Evault production infrastructure and thought I might share how the process went.