System Center 2012 Operations Manager – The printed books have arrived! (#SCOM)
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.
Windows Server 2012, Data Deduplication savings for TB sized drives (#WinServ, #HyperV)
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…
Multi-homed migrations from OpsMgr 2007 R2 to OpsMgr 2012 and overrides (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
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…
QuickTricks: Finding rules and monitors from a template (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
One of the benefits of being a consultant is the ability to work with a large number of different client sites and with a variety of Operations Manager administrators. I have used Operations Manager heavily for years but often I find a trick that another OM admin uses that I hadn’t seen before. Last week…
HyperV, Windows 8, and networking on a laptop (#Hyperv, #Win8)
As a consultant, my laptop is oftentimes our primary method to provide demonstrations for Microsoft technologies. With the release of Windows 8, the ability to run HyperV has been a great addition to the Operating System. I have had conversations with developers, and infrastructure personnel and there is a common question on how to best…
Windows Azure – Get more benefits from the MSDN subscription! (#WindowsServer, #Azure)
I initially blogged on this topic (using Azure benefits from your MSDN subscription) on 10/1/2012. At that point in time the Azure benefits from MSDN has been significantly lighter than they are as of today. This equated to approximately a single small computer system for half of month, which needs to be destroyed to not…
Adding Unix/Linux computers as CI’s in Service Manager (#SCOM, #SCSM, #SYSCTR)
During a recent conversation on Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 with Unix/Linux agents it was discussed that Unix/Linux agents cannot currently be added to Service Manager as Configuration Items (CI’s). That’s ok, we can use Operations Manager’s connector to create CI’s for Unix/Linux agents from Operations Manager. Here’s the steps required: (1) Find out what…
System Center 2012 Operations Manager Unleashed on Kindle and Nook! (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
I got an email this evening that a friend of mine had already received his book and was reading it on his Nook! This book is a whopping 1536 pages long and is contains in-depth information on Operations Manager 2012 beyond anything else available in the market on this topic. So, even before you can…
System Center 2012 Operations Manager – Unleashed TODAY! (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
According to our publisher System Center Operations Manager 2012 has released today! Check it out at: http://www.informit.com/store/system-center-2012-operations-manager-unleashed-9780672335914 or see Kerrie’s article at http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/82521. For those who have been waiting as long as I have I expect that we will see deliveries start from Amazon and other sources very soon! Please note that this includes SP1…
QuickTricks: Using search while in an RDP session (#winserver)
I do a lot of my demonstrations for System Center using a lab environment that I run out of my home. In most ways this works well, but one of the negatives of this approach is the amount of bandwidth available going up from my home to the Internet (on my provider I get about…