If I posed the question to the readers of this blog I bet I could get a dozen or more different approaches that we could use to visualize free disk information in Operations Manager either as out-of-the-box functionality or using 3rd party solutions (for those who are interested I will be following up with a…
Wally Mead and I have had a year where we seem to keep running into each other at conferences and we have been on several roadshows together including: Reston, VA and ElkRidge, MD Tampa and Boca Raton We’re getting the band back together for one more set of roadshows this year focusing on Operations Manager…
During the IT/Devconnections conference there was a good question asked by an attendee at one of the OMS sessions to explain how the various weights for recommendations on the assessment categories are calculated. This blog post is designed to answer that question through the following major topics: What are recommendation weights in OMS? How recommendations…
One of the constant drumbeats over last decade that I have been working with Operations Manager has been issues with management packs (or management pack quality). This is valid feedback, but often it’s valid feedback that doesn’t seem to actually go anywhere. Recently Microsoft has integrated an option called UserVoice for feedback. UserVoice allows you…
During sessions that I had at the Midwest Management Summit, I mentioned a challenge related to OMS. The challenge is related to change controls and how OMS handles updates to management packs. In OMS when you add a solution, the management packs which are part of that solution are deployed into your environment. That part…
I had the opportunity to attend and speak at my first VeeamON conference this year in Las Vegas at the Aria from October 26-29. The session I co-presented on was called “Architecting Operations Manager Solutions with Veeam” and I had the honor of co-presenting with both Pete Zerger and Michael Stafford. This was an extremely…
I was honored to be included among the “Featured Speakers” at the Midwest Management Summit event this year in Minnesota from November 9th to the 11th at the Mall of America. A lot of my thoughts from last year still apply so I’ll focus on this year. If you want to know more about last…
Microsoft OMS provide the ability to gather data from a huge variety of sources and to help to visualize this data. You determine what types of data you want to collect based upon the solutions which you activate in your workspace. These are added in the solutions gallery shown below: (check out the new “Containers”…
Last year at the Midwest Management Summit was a blast! I had a chance to co-present with my friend Bob, hang out with a lot of great System Center folks and in general just geek out (for my thoughts on last year’s conference check this out). This year’s session list is looking awesome and I…
Back in 2011 I collaborated with Veeam to develop a whitepaper called “How to manage System Center Operations Manager using Groups“. Since this was written before the release of System Center Operations Manager 2012 (or 2012 R2) this has needed some updates to match the current world of Operations Manager and Veeam. This has been…
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