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…
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…
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