In my lab environment my services used by Orchestrator which would fail occasionally (System Center Orchestrator Management Service and System Center Orchestrator Runbook Service). The Orchestrator management pack alerts on these conditions but by default it does not auto-restart these services. For a quick way to get these to auto-restart download the management pack available…
Catapult Systems is really stepping up their involvement at the Microsoft Management Summit in 2013. Highlights include: Joining forces with myITforum for the Twitter Army Catapult has five speakers involved in presentations at MMS spanning seven different sessions Catapult Systems will be at booth #739 – if you are going to MMS stop by and…
Some people say it takes a village to raise a child. I say it takes a globally dispersed village of really gifted technical people to make an Operations Manager Unleashed book! There are a lot more people involved in the creation of a book above and beyond the authors and the contributors. These folks were…
I received an email from a colleague of mine about new functionality available in Azure which they discussed at: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/03/04/windows-azure-updates-android-support-sql-reporting-services-active-directory-more.aspx. There was a reference in this to “Endpoint Monitoring” in Azure which I found interesting as I’ve spent some time blogging on the topic of monitoring Azure websites with Global Service Monitoring (GSM) in Operations…
As part of prep for an upcoming MMS session, I was spending some time assessing the current level of functionality in the Cloud Process Pack. The download for this is available at here: System Center Cloud Services Process Pack. For this blog post I focused on the following for the Cloud Process Pack: Installing the…
One of the proposed Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions at MMS is “Cloud and Datacenter Management Roundtable”. This BOF session is for System Center SME’s, the Cloud and Datacenter MVP’s and product team to roundtable discuss all items in the Cloud and Datacenter management space (basically everything other than Configuration Manager). If you have a question…
In a previous blog post I discussed the challenges which long commute times as a consultant and gave some options to minimize the impacts of long commutes. Based on this website link (http://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/embed.html) the average commute time America is currently at 25.4 minutes (check out your own zipcode to see what your average commute time…
I had a surprise on my doorstep when I got home tonight, check it out! I’m betting that Amazon shipments will be arriving very soon as well.
One of the features I was recently excited about with the release of Windows Server 2012 is Data Deduplication. I decided to kick the tires with this in my lab environment for my Windows Server 2012 system which is both a Hyper-V servers and provides my Virtual Machine Manager library. The screenshot below shows my…
There are three approaches which can be used for deployment or migration of Operations Manager. These are: Fresh installation: Used for a new installation of Operations Manager 2012 or when the existing Operations Manager 2007 R2 environment is either non-viable or unused. In-place upgrade: Used to upgrade an existing OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment to OpsMgr…
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