Do you want to know how the Cloud is changing the landscape of System Center and our daily jobs? Are you interested in how you can leverage the Cloud to make your System Center solutions more powerful? Or are you trying to figure out how to monitor and manage Azure solutions with your existing System…
Are you interested in learning more about System Center and looking for some good upcoming conferences? There are some great ones coming up, check out the following lineup for events over just the next six months! September 15-19, 2014: IT/Dev Connections (http://www.devconnections.com/) September 17-19, 2014: System Center Universe Europe (http://www.systemcenteruniverse.ch/) October 28-31, 2014: TechEd Europe…
The magnifier application works well as a replacement for ZoomIt especially on platforms which do not support ZoomIt (such as my Surface 2 RT). I’m not sure how I missed this until now but it looks like it was added as a Windows key shortcut in Windows 7. The magnifier is activated by using the…
Welcome to Part 5 on how to do crazy stuff for Operations Manager using SQL, XML and PowerShell (and now Excel!). In the next part of this blog series we will investigate how to use PowerShell and Excel together to provide an important piece of information when integrating Operations Manager into a third party ticketing…
Welcome to Part 4 on how to do crazy stuff for Operations Manager using SQL, XML and PowerShell. In Part 1 we covered places where Operations Manager could store data and used unique search stings to see what that data is stored either in the XML, registry, or in the databases.In Part 2 we…
Are you interested in seeing how entities (objects) are configured in Operations Manager and how the hierarchy works? If so then check this utility out: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCSM-Entity-Explorer-68b86bd2 A description of the utility provided by the author is: "SCSM Entity Explorer is a tool for System Center Service Manager (SCSM) administrators to help them browse and get…
I recently had an unpleasant surprise when I realized that I had installed two of my Operations Manager database servers I had accidentally installed as an evaluation edition. I found this out when the databases would no longer start so that was "less than optimal". In my lab the first indication that this was an…
I have been unofficially resisting the Cloud since the beginning and I am willing to admit the major reason why. I am comfortable with my on-premises servers and applications. I am deeply familiar with the approaches used to provide monitoring, management, automation and recoverability for these systems. I have built my career and brand by…
Welcome to Part 3 on how to do crazy stuff for Operations Manager using SQL, XML and PowerShell. In Part 1 we covered places where Operations Manager could store data and used unique search stings to see what that data is stored either in the XML, registry, or in the databases.In Part 2 we covered…
Welcome to "how to do crazy stuff for Operations Manager using SQL, XML and PowerShell" (that was the original name for this blog post before I decided to make this into a series of blog posts which will focus on doing off the wall crazy stuff to meet business requirements in Operations Manager). Please realize…
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