Are you a user group coordinator looking to find speakers or sponsors for your event? Are you a trying to find a user group focused on the Cloud or System Center? Are you a speaker looking to present to user group communities around the world? Are you a vendor who makes products which augment System…
On August 6th and 7th 2015 I had the honor of attending the Global Leadership Summit in the primary auditorium for the event. I attended for two primary purposes: To learn more about leadership and become better as a leader. To learn how the GLS has taken the concept of a two day event on…
Veeam has released an updated version of a white paper that was originally created by Alec King, Pete Zerger and myself. This updated version has been change to reflect technology advances which have occurred since it was originally written including for monitoring VMware with Veeam v8 and cloud. This also includes updated information about VMware…
I am very excited to say that I will be speaking at my first Dev Connections this year! I have heard a lot of good things about this event and from the lineup of speakers it looks like this year will not disappoint. As part of the prep for this event I have put together…
We had a great full day event in Minnesota this week focusing on all things Microsoft Monitoring focused (Operations Manager, OMS, dashboards and more). I wanted to say a big thank-you to the Minnesota user group for inviting me to speak this week! Visiting user groups like this showcases the strength of a solid System…
If you use Windows Media Center not only for TV and movies but also as a conduit to Netflix you probably saw the same unhappy surprise that I recently saw (shown below). “As of September 15, 2015, Netflix will not longer be available on Windows Media Center. Please visit devices.netflix.com to see the many devise…
Pete Zerger has put together an OMS wiki which provides a more comprehensive set of resources and will be easier to maintain via a wiki which is available at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/31909.ms-operations-management-suite-survival-guide.aspx. As such I am removing my blog post on this topic and I highly recommend using this as the one-stop-shop for all resources related to…
I’m excited to announce that I will have the pleasure of presenting at several of the same events with Wally Mead! With the two of us presenting you have a solid bet that there will be lots of Configuration Manager and Operations Manager goodness. I also know that there will be some other great presentations…
Microsoft’s recent acquisition of BlueStripe is an area of extreme interest for people who live and breathe in the Microsoft monitoring space. This acquisition has been the subject of several articles including: http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/06/10/microsoft-acquires-bluestripe-to-help-customers-improve-application-visibility-and-management-across-the-datacenter-and-cloud/ http://marketrealist.com/2015/06/microsoft-adds-bluestripe-acquisition-portfolio/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/10/microsoft-acquires-application-management-service-bluestripe/ http://windowsitpro.com/cloud/microsoft-acquires-bluestripe-software http://blog.coretech.dk/laj/bluestripe-acquired-by-microsoft/ http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/06/microsoft-completes-acquisition-of-bluestripe-software/ I also reference the BlueStripe acquisition in the whitepaper which I recently released which is available at…
This is a quick article explaining the steps required to add users to your existing OMS subscription. To add users to your OMS subscription log on as your administrator account for OMS (http://www.microsoft.com/oms) and go to the top right corner of the screen and left-click. Choose the first option listed (which will be name of…
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