QuickTricks: Overrides to enable autorestart of Orchestrator services (#SCOM, #SCORCH)

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 and MMS 2013

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…

Configuring Web Endpoint Monitoring in Azure (#Azure, #SCOM)

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…

Attending MMS and interested in Cloud and Datacenter Management? (#MMS, #SYSCTR)

  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…