Don’t get me wrong, I am actually a fan of Windows 10. I have one system already running on it and I am looking forward to upgrading almost all of my home systems to it. There’s one big exception and this exception is due to Microsoft’s decision not mine. Microsoft has decided not to support…
I am honored to be among the speakers at the upcoming Veeam conference: VeeamON on October 26-29! For those not familiar with VeeamON, this is the second year for the event and this is how Veeam describes it: VeeamON 2015 is designed to connect the world’s leading IT experts and visionaries to learn how to…
Today Microsoft announced the release of OMS for both IOS and Android (in addition to the existing Windows Phone application) at http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2015/10/21/log-analytics-on-the-move.aspx. The mobile applications are available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/operations-management-suite/mobile-apps.aspx. This blog post will provide the following information: A quick tour of how the OMS experience works on an iPad What doesn’t work the…
Several years ago I wrote a blog post on how to establish a testing environment for monitoring of Oracle (available at https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/03/27/operations-manager-2012-scom-lab-testing-monitoring-for-oracle/). I recently received a request for a follow-up to that one focusing on monitoring Oracle with Operations Manager. The good news is that the options for monitoring Oracle with Operations Manager are now…
Wally Mead and I have teamed up for a two user group meetings in the Dallas and San Antonio markets (that’s in Texas for those who don’t live in the Lone Star state). Dallas’ user group is on October 14th from noon until 5:00 at the Microsoft office in Las Colinas at the MTC. Wally…
During a recent meeting I was demonstrating my all-in-one OpsMgr TP3 environment. I use this environment to showcase the functionality which has been put together for both Windows Server Technical Preview 3 (TP3) and Operations Manager TP3. A secondary goal for this environment was to kick the tires to see how I could leverage the…
At IT/Dev Connections 2015, Maarten Goet provided an excellent demo where he showcased how you can gather information in OMS for intrusion detection and send an email when the condition occurs in his session “Operations Management Suite for the System Center Operations Manager Administrator“. This was a very interesting set of functionality to see demonstrated…
Wally and I had so much fun with the first round of these that we decided to do another set! With the two of us presenting you have a solid bet that there will be lots of Configuration Manager and Operations Manager vNext goodness. So if are interested in either Operations Manager or Configuration Manager…
I am excited to announce that I will be presenting on my first SCU Network webinar on 10/14/2015! The session is called “Monitor This, Don’t Monitor That!” This session will focus on Operations Manager and give examples of things that you may not be monitoring (and you should be) as well as things you may…
I attended my first IT/Dev Connections (#ITDevCon) this year when it was held September 14-17 in Las Vegas at the Aria hotel. I have had the opportunity to attend a variety of technical conferences over the years and I was still able to find myself pleasantly surprised by this event in many ways. The following…
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