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…
I was recently faced with an interesting requirement to provide monitoring for a series of SQL 2005 servers which had several hundred databases on them. The official support limits for this management pack is at 50 databases (Per the management pack guide: "We recommend that you monitor no more than 50 databases and 150 database…
In multi-homed migrations for Operations Manager one of the last steps is to remove the Operations Manager 2007 monitoring from the system. The migration process is discussed here but that does not provide details on how to actually perform the agent removal. Our initial tests did not work to perform an uninstallation of the agent…
I had a colleague of mine recently ask me a question that we have gotten for years now in Operations Manager. Specifically: "What’s the best way to get all the rules and monitors out of an MP so someone can view what’s being monitored by Operations Manager?" There are two approaches that I can recommend…
If you want to learn technologies which are strategic to the Microsoft direction I recommend three: PowerShell, SMA and WAP. To quote Pete Zerger from a couple of years back during SCU "Learn PowerShell". Pete’s statement was simple, straight to the point and absolutely correct. WAP is the Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server which…
I’ve been an iPad user for a while now and also working with my Surface 2 RT (see https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2014/04/09/using-the-surface-2-rt-like-a-pro-fessional-1.aspx for details). One of the major reasons I favored the Surface was the ability to use Word, PowerPoint and Excel on the device. With the recent release of Office for the iPad it was time to…
In a recent environment where we were configuring Advisor within Operations Manager we received errors that the "Microsoft account requires JavaScript to sign in. This web browser either does not support JavaScript, or scripts are being blocked." To debug this, we verified that a similar error also occurred when browsing to the Advisor site (https://www.systemcenteradvisor.com/)…
One of the best parts of TechEd was getting to talk with customers who are using Operations Manager and had a specific question that they were looking for a resolution to. One of these conversations that I had was around how to monitor certificates and provide a notification of when they will expire beyond…
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