At MMS 2013, Rob Doucette showcased their Hyper-V capacity planning in VMM with a very cool free extension. A subset of that presentation is available here. In summary, this is an extremely cool free extension to Virtual Machine Manager 2012 which provides tips for hosts and virtual machines in VMM. After a quick talk with…
It’s funny at times how in-sync the various folks in the community are. I was working with the OnCommand Plug-in from NetApp one day and the next I ran across this article by Marnix: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2013/06/high-level-overview-netapp-san.html. So we were both working on the same management pack at the same time on different sides of the world.…
This is the first of a three part blog series highlighting the integration available between System Center Operations Manager 2012 and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor. This topic was initially mentioned around the timeframe of the Microsoft Management Summit this year – information is available at: http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2013/04/09/monitor-the-monitor-alert-on-operations-manager-health/. I’ve been working with the folks at SolarWinds…
Starting in MMS 2011, I added the concept of a pre-show presentation so my audience didn’t need to sit there bored waiting for the presentation to start (this idea was shamelessly stolen from movie theatre previews). These are the topics that we covered during the pre-show deck which ran prior to the actual presentation: OpsMgr…
At MMS 2013, a group of us did a presentation focusing on how to provision users, groups, virtuals and software with System Center. As part of that presentation there were several follow-up blog posts which we discussed, this blog post is to provide a list of what blog posts have been done and where they…
In Operations Manager 2012 with SP1 and the latest UR applied (UR2 at this point in time), when the Objects by Performance widget is chosen with the (All) Performance Instance, no data is displayed in the chart. What are the steps to reproduce the issue? 1) Create a new two cell grid dashboard in…
For years now I’ve been running a Media Center on Windows Vista and it’s been working like a champ. I even upgraded to an attic installed antenna a while back to get additional tv stations via antenna (discussed here). Last week I had that dreaded moment when I tried to use the Media PC and…
I’ve been spending some time recently working with the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform of as a Service (PaaS) solutions from Microsoft available in Azure. Relevant blog posts I’ve worked on related to these topics include: Integration points between Azure and System Center: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/blog-series-kicking-the-tires-on-windows-azure-15-installments/ Getting more benefits from your MSDN subscription: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2013/02/28/windows-azure-%E2%80%93-get-more-benefits-from-the-msdn-subscription-windowsserver-azure.aspx Performance…
If these sound like fun, you really need to check these presentations and links out. Travis Wright has been providing some excellent training on the Service Manager Data Warehouse and reporting. So if you are really interested in facts, outriggers and dimensions you should really check these out! Travis Wright on “Advanced System Center…
If you are like me and user Operations Manager you probably have a console installed on your laptop (if not, at least avoid using the consoles on the management servers to minimize the overhead on them!). For processes to update Operations Manager there is either: Kevin Holman’s blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2013/04/11/applying-update-rollup-2-ur2-to-opsmgr-2012-sp1.aspx [Kevin has done and continues to…
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