Key benefits to Nano include smaller VHD sizes and less updates resulting in less reboots and less downtime. From my testing another one of the key benefits is the memory footprint. For my tests I ran three Windows Server 2016 TP4 systems: One as a Full operating system, one as Core and one as Nano.…
Clint Wyckoff and I have teamed up on our first whitepaper for Operations Manager where we discuss “The Admin Who Cried Alert”. Techniques included in this whitepaper are: 1. Methods available to group objects by their Business Service Level Agreement (SLA) that can result in more actionable alerting 2. How the difference between monitoring and…
One of the best ways to know what is on the roadmap for Microsoft OMS is to log in and check out the Solutions Gallery (shown below). This blog post contains information which is publicly available if you access the Solutions Gallery from the Microsoft OMS site (http://www.microsoft.com/oms) with your account. During a recent view…
My concept of a weekly edition of having fun with Operations Manager and Windows Media Center ended up going far longer than I had expected it would. The blog posts and their summaries are below: In the first part of this series we discussed why it is beneficial to create your own class structure. In…
I am pleased to be able to announce the return of System Center Universe in America on January 19th 2016 for our 5th year! The first round of speaker information for SCU was recently released and is available at: http://tinyurl.com/SCU2016Speakers (The list includes Symon Perriman, Johan Arwidmark, Kent Agerlund, Dieter Wijckmans, Pete Zerger, Wally Mead…
Welcome this week’s edition of having fun with Operations Manager and Windows Media Center. In the first part of this series we discussed why it is beneficial to create your own class structure. In the second part of this series we discussed a wizard driven method to create your own class structure and discovery. In…
One of the more interesting features of the new Windows Server 2016 release which has been show as of TP4 is Nano. Nano provides a 93% smaller VHD size, 92% fewer critical bulletins, 80% fewer reboots and installs as less than 500 MB in size (for details see http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/what-nano-server). As a result Nano boots extremely…
Recently Microsoft added the ability to gather near real time performance information through OMS (for details look here). Tao dissected how this worked on this blog post here including which management pack is used (Microsoft.IntelligencePack.LogManagement.Collection), the rules which exist in the MP that gather data (shown below from my environment), and the underlying XML which…
One of the challenges in Operations Manager is providing an effective way to visualize information which does not require a significant amount of overhead from the Operations Manager administrator to implement or maintain. A common example of this is a free disk space dashboard or report. There are a variety of methods currently available to…
Clint Wyckoff and I are teaming up with Jose Mendoza and Shawn Lieu for “Veeam, Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Are Better Together” on December 2nd (Wednesday) at 11:00 am (UTC -06:00). I am excited for this opportunity and looking forward to presenting with Clint especially as he and I have also been developing a…
Catapult uses cookies to enhance your experience, to display customized content in accordance with your browser settings, and to help us better understand how you use our website. By continuing to browse or closing this banner, you indicate your agreement. To learn more about the cookies we use and to set your own preferences, see our Privacy and Cookie Policy.