I finally got some quality time to hang out with Carl in Austin this year. In 2011, if someone told me that I would end up in a film sitting next to a robot I would have bet against it. However, in retrospect that was a whole lot of fun so I should probably hang…
You do not want to miss the opportunity to be at System Center Universe (SCU) this February 4th. You want to know why? Here’s the top 5 reasons why you do not want to miss SCU2015! 1) Speaker and session lineup: I can’t even imagine a more jam packed day of sessions or a better…
What’s the difference between your average non-production Hyper-V host and a really nice gaming rig? There’s not all that much when you really look at it. Your regular HyperV system requires a lot of memory, a fast processor, strong network connectivity and a lot of hopefully pretty fast storage. The Operating System of choice is…
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…
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