QuickTricks: Integrating the Azure portal into the Operations Manager console (#SCOM, #Azure)

infrastructure

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…

Patching OpsMgr 2012 SP1 consoles in Windows 8 using Windows Update (#SCOM, #Windows, #ConfigMgr)

infrastructure

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…

Q&A from Operations Manager Evolution: Taking Your Environment to the Next Level with Operations Manager (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

infrastructure

Thank you to all of the people who attended today’s session! The PowerPoint deck (as well as the others in the MVP Pro Speaker series) appears to already be available for download at: http://tinyurl.com/MVPProSpeakerPPTs   There were a couple of questions that we weren’t able to get to today during the presentation’s Q&A session:  …

Performance tests for Windows Server 2012 in Azure vs. a Hyper-V based Private cloud (#Azure, #SYSCTR, #SCOM)

infrastructure

One of my initial interests when I started blogging was using performance testing to determine optimal configurations (one of my first posts discussed performance of SCSI versus IDE disk configurations in Virtual Server 2005). I thought recently that it would be interesting to see how a Windows Server 2012 virtual performs in Windows Azure versus…

Recording for IM-B317: Provisioning in System Center: Users, Groups, Virtual Servers, Software and More (#MMS2013)

infrastructure

I’ve attended MMS and TechEd for many years and I will bet heavily that you haven’t seen anything like this session before (unless you were among the 500 in the audience). The recording session for this just became available at: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013/IM-B317 P.S. – If you have any non-automated IT related needs feel free to contact…