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…
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…
This is the second in a four blog post series focusing on how to monitor and visualize SQL servers in your environment using Microsoft technologies. These post topic include: Part 1: Monitoring & Visualizing SQL Server using System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 Part 2: Monitoring & Visualizing SQL Server using 3rd party dashboard solutions…
This is the third in a four blog post series focusing on how to monitor and visualize SQL servers in your environment using Microsoft technologies. These post topic include: Part 1: Monitoring & Visualizing SQL Server using System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 Part 2: Monitoring & Visualizing SQL Server using 3rd party dashboard solutions…
There have been significant enhancements which have been made in the area of visualization of SQL server and in custom dashboard creation as a result. Let’s start with a teaser of what is available as of the end of this blog post… How about a custom dashboard showcasing IIS information using the new SQL dashboard…
I’m excited to say that I will be doing my first presentation for the WMUG (Windows Management User Group Netherlands) on the 23rd of this month. [This is causing me some serious flashbacks to my visit to the Netherlands (and the rest of the SCU Europe tour)]: If you want to learn more about what…
Technical Preview 3 is now available for both Windows Server 2016 and System Center vNext. This blog post will showcase a method to use Azure IaaS to augment your existing monitoring environment allowing you to test functionality in the new version while maintaining your on-prem monitoring solution. I am using a multihomed configuration to allow…
During a presentation in Florida I was asked a question about the upcoming scheduled Maintenance Mode functionality in Operations Manager vNext. This blog post will cover the following topics related to the new Scheduled Maintenance mode functionality: Where are maintenance schedules defined? Is it possible to create a schedule for the 3rd Tuesday of every…
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