The following is a summary of what I’ve found working with the Windows Azure pack so far in an all-in-one Windows Server 2012 R2 system. I was glad to see that the community had already jumped in on this (good stuff Stanislav, and congratulations on your MVP award!). I started my blog post from where…
I was invited to speak at the MEMUG (Denver System Center user group) this Friday on the topic of “Monitoring and Windows Azure”. The screenshot below is the key point that I wanted to bring across in that presentation. As you may have seen in previous blog posts Azure and how it intersects with System…
The ReSearch This management pack is a free community written management pack that provides a way to quickly research alerts which occur in Operations Manager. These resolutions can be search for not only on the community repository but also on an internal knowledge repository or through searching with Bing or Google. Functionality also exists to…
Keeping up with technology is tough. It’s a constantly evolving battle where even the solid ground under your feet can shift at any time. The pace of change is accelerating, and IT consultants who can’t keep up will not have a viable skill set to continue in consulting. Are you ready for the bad news?…
This article identifies changes seen in Operations Manager 2012 R2 preview release and details the steps required to install Operations Manager 2012 R2 preview release running on Windows Server 2012 R2 preview release. For the to be an all-in-one System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 environment, it will need to be domain controller, SQL…
With the announcement at TechEd Europe (http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/06/24/teched-europe-big-bets-and-big-opportunities.aspx) Windows 2012 R2 preview release, System Center 2012 R2 preview release are now available. The following are download pages and product pages for these items: Download pages: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn205286?WT.mc_id=OO_Technet_Home_General_EN_US http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn205295?WT.mc_id=OO_Technet_Home_General_EN_US http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn296435.aspx?CR_CC=200142594 Product version pages: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/windows-server-2012-r2.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/system-center-2012-r2.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-azure-pack.aspx So what should you expect when installing Windows Server 2012…
I’ve been using System Center Virtual Machine Manager for a while now. I’ve upgraded hosts from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012. And I’ve upgraded SCVMM as part of that process. I’ve run across several issues and questions that were notable so I thought it’s time to bring them together into a blog…
Sometimes you can’t install an Operations Manager agent and you really need something simple which tells you whether what you want to monitor is up or down and how quickly it is responding. For items like this, the OpsLogix ping management pack is extremely useful. This management pack is free for download at: http://www.opslogix.com/download. This…
Happy Friday my fellow Operations Manager cohorts! I saw this this while working on client site this week which is now my favorite product knowledge tab of all time! Ah, the many things in life that have gone on the “TODO” list and never got TODONE. 🙂 (The vendor name for this alert has…
Operations Manager 2012 provides enhanced network monitoring capabilities which includes the ability to provide monitoring for various interfaces and ports on the network devices. While I have seen mentions about configuring monitoring for an additional network port or interface (such as http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212935.aspx which states that “Ports that are connected to a computer are not…
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