During a recent client engagement we found that one of the built-in views for Operations Manager does not appear to work in the out-of-the-box configuration. The "Synchronization Performance View" in the Operations Manager console does not display any performance counters. The screenshot below shows this view which is part of the Data Warehouse folder in…
If you are working with Operations Manager and you want to use it on a mobile platform or through a non-Silverlight web interface check out the series of blog posts entitled "Taking OpsMgr with me". The series links are below with products highlights so you can quickly identify which potential solution you would like to…
For the last several months I have been on a quest to migrate from my laptop onto my Surface 2 RT for my daily work requirements to avoid lugging as much gear with me on a daily basis. During this process I’ve found several items that I had to develop workarounds to handle on my…
Are you currently running Operations Manager 2012 or earlier and interested in getting to Operations Manager 2012 R2? If so, this blog post should help you to identify which path to take and key tips and tricks to consider in the process. There are three approaches which can be used for deployment or migration of…
July last year I wrote a blog post called "Oversized and undersized VMs plus one IT geek meltdown" which summarized to say that the reports which Veeam has for oversized and undersized VM’s are great but I run Hyper-V and I want these same types of report for my Hyper-V systems. The community has had…
Recently I had the opportunity to speak at SCU APAC in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This was a whole new experience for me as this was the first time that I have been in Asia and only my second business trip overseas (see here for my blog post on my first trip to SCU in Europe).…
Evolution is coming to TechEd… Operations Manager Evolution that is. J I am excited to say that I have a session which was accepted to present at TechEd 2014. I am greatly looking forward to presenting "Evolution of Infrastructure Monitoring: Taking Your Environment to the Next Level with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager".…
One item I have not discussed in this blog post series yet is the fact that Operations Manager does have a web console and this web console can be used on some mobile platforms. The key to consider is that this web console requires Silverlight. So you either need to be able to install Silverlight…
After years of spending time in front of the Operations Manager console, I recommend occasionally stepping back and taking a look at other ways that you can get to this type of information. In the next part of this series, I am focusing on a new approach which is being used to provide access…
If you are an Operations Manager administrator like me, you probably spend a lot of time looking at consoles like this: Or hopefully more like this… Or this… But at some point in time you may want to step away from your laptop and spend some time outside of the console (if you haven’t done…
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