If you have multiple management groups in your Operations Manager environment, you likely are well aware of how much work is involved in keeping them even somewhat in sync with each other. I recently developed a PowerShell script which helps to keep two different management packs in sync which is discussed here. Soon after I…
This Wednesday (1/14/2015) Pete, Mike and I will be teaming up for the first time ever for a presentation on how to automate management of your Hyper-V environment. It’s not often that you get three MVP’s with this much System Center background and diversity working together on one session. If you are interested in how…
Is that morning alarm clock ruining your day? Are you tired of the constant struggle of being employed as a consultant? Are you looking for interesting methods to allow you to spend your days waiting in the unemployment line or sitting at home catching up on all the important TV shows and video games which…
I have spent some time working with the Veeam management pack and recently started development of a NOC (Network Operations Center) dashboard which uses one of the Veeam widgets. The Veeam Traffic Light Widget allows you to show the top 20 or bottom 20 metrics and to color code them based upon the values which…
About a year ago I wrote a blog post on how to become a Microsoft MVP. I had planned on following up with a second blog post providing more information but the more I review what I put in place the more I believe that it stands well as it is. I hope that the…
During a recent event on Azure in Seattle, one of the common asks was for information on how to configure site-to-site VPN’s in Azure. The following is a recommended set of links to help to answer this question. Configure a Site-to-Site VPN in the Management Portal Site-to-Site VPN in Azure Virtual Network using Windows Server…
One of the biggest challenges I see when working in an environment which has multiple management groups is how to keep management groups in sync with each other. Without an effective change management process for overrides it quickly becomes impossible to keep the various management groups tuned in the same way. The challenge synchronizing management…
This month I had the opportunity to attend the first ever Midwest Management Summit (http://mms.mnscug.org/). The event was pleasantly well run, and really felt like a hybrid of a user group meeting with an old-style Microsoft Management Summit. Having been involved in a large variety of events over the last decade or so I was…
I am happy to announce that as part of the continued relationship between SCU and Channel 9 the System Center Universe 2014 America videos have now been made available on Channel 9 at http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/System-Center-Universe-America-2014. Earlier we announced the availability of the SCU 2014 Europe sessions (information on that announcement is available at http://blogs.technet.com/b/matthewms/archive/2014/10/23/annoucement-scu-is-now-available-on-channel-9.aspx). We are…
If you are like me you were excited to see that Technical Previews are now available for Windows 10, Windows Server and System Center (details and download links are available at http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2014/10/02/announcing-availability-of-the-system-center-technical-preview.aspx). From what I’m seeing this will be an exciting update and I expect lots of good stuff will be shown at TechEd in…
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