As I am preparing for SCU 2014, one item on my list is to identify a set of trivial pursuit questions which we will use at the conference. I’ve got a good list started, but I ran this idea past my better half and she had a great idea to provide a larger pool of…
Are you interested in what trends are occurring in IT from an End-To-End Monitoring perspective? Or are you interested in dashboards, Operations Manager and the cloud? Or are you like me (a fan of Savision) and you want to know where they are going with their products? If any of these are true, this…
Welcome to my "Wally-Palooza 2014" blog post! If you have been working in Configuration Manager (or SMS) for years I’m sure that you know Wally Mead. If not, allow me to introduce him with this statement – I believe that Wally is pound-for-pound the best Configuration Manager advocate on the planet. If you don’t know…
The Dallas System Center user group (DFWSMUG) is re-re-launching with a great event this January 10th! (The original re-launch had to be postponed because the DFW metroplex was shut down with a snow-pocalypse). Huge thanks go to Eric Morrison and Allen Wat for their help in transitioning this user group to it’s new leader: Matt…
This blog post is probably not going to be relevant to my regular readers, but should be helpful item to have out there for the search engines for anyone else who runs into this! For Christmas I received a V1Connection from my family (shout-out to Michelle, Alex and the crew!). I’ve owned a valentine one…
If you are a company with software assurance and you are using Operations Manager, one of the benefits that you receive is access to Global Service Monitoring in Operations Manager. While I have seen plenty of references to how to create a 90 day trial account, I didn’t find any documentation explaining how to activate…
As part of my lab, I have one server which provides storage for the Hyper-V servers with SMB3. The server uses Windows Storage Spaces to storage for each of the nodes of my Hyper-V cluster. Recently I started experiencing extreme issues with performance with some of my virtuals. After some digging I started finding indications…
After upgrading my SMB3 based file server from Windows 2012 to Windows 2012 R2 I missed that the file server was now in an Unknown status in VMM within the Fabric pane, Storage, File Server section. While the file server continued to function correctly, I was unable to add any other file shares on the…
This blog post wraps up the AMGW blog post series by discussing what functionality works for agents reporting to an AMGW, limitations for agents reporting to the AMGW and what benefits there are to using an AMGW. In the first part of this blog post series I introduced the concept behind the Azure Monitoring Gateway…
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