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Kicking the tires: Using the production released version of Global Service Monitoring (GSM) in Operations Manager 2012 SP1 (#SCOM, #SYSCTR, #Azure)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 29, 2013

With the production released version of GSM, there were a couple of big surprises that I saw. 1) The licensing structure was actually a pleasant surprise. Per the article at http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2013/01/14/system-center-global-service-monitor-getting-started.aspx “GSM is provided by Microsoft as a benefit of Software Assurance. If you have a System Center license, you can use GSM at no…

Altering storage space and spending time with a TARDIS USB hub (#SCU2013, #Hyperv)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 28, 2013

As a geek I’ve always been fascinated with the concept of disk compression and methods which allow us to store more data on a devices than the device should be able to store. Back in my first training for Windows 95 train-the-trainer, the two things that remain in my memory to this day are the…

Kicking the tires: Integrating ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 with Azure (#ConfigMgr, #Azure)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 26, 2013

This is the last integration point I was looking into between System Center (Configuration Manager in this case) and Azure. Configuration Manager 2012 with SP1 can use use an Azure based distribution point. I did some looking into this and one of my colleagues pointed me to a great blog article on how to configure…

Kicking the tires on Azure application monitoring with System Center 2012 (#SYSCTR, #SCOM, #Azure)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 26, 2013

As part of some pre-sales related work that I was asked to look into, I spent some time working with what is available via System Center 2012 to provide monitoring for applications which are deployed in Windows Azure. I quickly found that this is not a simple question to answer and started gathering up lessons…

Welcome to the Universe (The System Center Universe) – on your mobile device (#SCU2013, #SYSCTR)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 24, 2013

I had a few minutes of free time today to check into the System Center Universe mobile application today and it looks very cool. Check out the screenshot below from my “preferred mobile device”. Check out the universe on the mobile platform of your choice – look for “SCU2013” in the App Store, the Play…

Kicking the tires: Enabling throttling of the connection between DPM 2012 SP1 and Azure (#SCDPM, #Azure, #SYSCTR)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 23, 2013

During a recent blog post, I used the DPM integration with Azure to backup some of my content in my home lab to the cloud. Pretty soon after I started my backup, the complaints started coming in from the other users of this Internet connection. Quotes included “Why is NetFlix so slow?”, and “Who’s taking…

Kicking the tires: Integrating DPM 2012 SP1 with Azure (#SCDPM, #Azure)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 22, 2013

To see how DPM 2012 SP1 integrates with Azure from a backup perspective, I recently spent some time testing this integration. Prior to performing this integration there are two things need to be done ahead of time: 1) Have DPM 2012 installed with SP1 2) You also need to have a Microsoft account for organizations…

Top 5 reasons Why Sysadmins Should Find System Center 2012 Operations Manager a Refreshing Alternative to SolarWinds (#SCOM)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 21, 2013

For background here, there was an article written entitled: Top 5 Reasons Why Sysadmins Should Find SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor a Refreshing Alternative to Microsoft® SCOM. This article discussed five benefits they see to using SolarWinds versus System Center Operations Manager. In this article they referenced an article I had written for Windows IT…

System Center Universe 2013 registration is now over 1000! (#SCU2013)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 18, 2013

I just received word that registration for SCU 2013 has passed the 1000 attendee mark! Thank you to everyone who has signed up for this event – I am looking forward to this more every day! There are still seats available both in person in Irving and at our simulcast locations! Sign up soon, as…

Kicking the tires: Connecting App Controller with your Azure MSDN subscription (#Azure, #scappctrl, #SYSCTR)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 18, 2013

As part of further learning how System Center 2012 works with Azure, I spent some time recently working with integrating App Controller with an Azure subscription. With App Controller, there are no downloads required to integrate with Azure (such as the management pack for Operations Manager or the integration pack for Orchestrator). This blog posts…

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