Have you ever tried to debug a situation where notifications seem to be working but only part of the time in Operations Manager? I ran into this situation recently and found a couple of items which assist with this specifically for Operations Manager 2012. This blog post will cover: What is a resource pool? General…
Welcome this week’s edition of having fun with Operations Manager and Windows Media Center. In the first part of this series we discussed why it is beneficial to create your own class structure. In the second part of this series we discussed a wizard driven method to create your own class structure and discovery. In…
I am happy to announce the launch of my personal blog with a strong discussion of my perspectives of the upcoming Microsoft Ignite conference. CTL2 (Consulting Conclusions, Technical Theories, Literary Liberties) is available at: http://ctl2.wordpress.com/. This topics of this first blog post include: Who wants what from a conference? The conference landscape The exciting, concerning…
Welcome this week’s edition of having fun with Operations Manager and Windows Media Center. In the first part of this series we discussed why it is beneficial to create your own class structure. In this blog post we will review methods available to create your own management packs and we’ll go through a step-by-step to…
If you saw the first blog post on this topic (Performance view vs Performance widget) you can probably guess what the focus is for this one. Alert view vs Alert widget: Epic Rap Battle edition! (sorry, just kidding but you gotta admit it would be a funny topic). What does the alert view look…
I’m not a good developer. I know this as a fact because I started my career as a developer. Now I develop when I need to but in general I would put my coding skills at one half a step above a hack in most situations. Now-a-days you can tell who is and who isn’t…
Welcome to the first of my "World War Widget" blog series. One of the questions that I’ve been meaning to answer for a long time now is this: When should you use the performance view in Operations Manager and when should you use the performance widget? At first glance, they look pretty similar so what’s…
This blog post series focuses on autoscaling from the perspective of Azure, System Center and WAP. In the first part of this series we discussed how autoscaling works in Azure. In this blog post we will discuss resources which are available to provide autoscaling in System Center. Part 1: Autoscaling in Azure Part 2: Autoscaling…
Yesterday I was happy to see that Microsoft has made the Active Directory Intelligence Pack is now available for Azure Operational Insights! To add this feature, log into Azure OpsInsights (https://preview.opinsights.azure.com) and add the AD Assessment Intelligence Pack (shown below). Adding this pack in Azure OpsInsights adds the following management pack(s) to Operations Manager: Afterthe…
Are you looking for an inexpensive way to send SMS text messages and voice phone calls from Operations Manager 2012 without a modem? Check out this solution using PowerShell and Twilio! A former co-worked of mine with a passion for automation has started his own site focusing on the power of automation through PowerShell, System…
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