MMS 2013 was last week and it was an incredible one from my perspective. I had a chance to spend time meeting new people, and spend time hanging out with people I’m privileged to call old friends. I was lucky enough to be involve in three sessions last week which were a blast. Sessions:…
You have just got to love those last few days of complete and utter scramble preparing for sessions at MMS. This has been a really crazy round of preparing but I have high hopes that it will be worth it for the level of sessions that I want to be able to present this year.…
I received notice that the “Cloud and Datacenter Management Roundtable” Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session was accepted at MMS! Thank you to everyone who voted this session up! 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…
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…
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