In my home network, one of my phones became locked with a passcode that nobody could remember (I will not list the name of my 2nd level technical support individual who caused this to protect the innocent). I dug around on the web and it looked like the only option I had available was to…
It’s interesting that I have developed what has become almost a level of dread when it comes to installation of gateway servers in OpsMgr. This is due to the fact that my percentage of failed initial installations for a gateway has been pretty darn high (kinda like installing reporting in the old days). For background…
During a recent Hyper-V build out in my lab I decided to try my hands at installing Hyper-V on the core version of Windows versus the full version of Windows. The specific benefits I expected from core include: (benefits taken from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee391628(v=vs.85).aspx) 1) Reduced servicing 2) Reduced management 3) Reduced attack surface 4) Less…
My wife would likely say that one of the curses of being married to an IT geek is that you end up with all of the techno-hand-me-down’s. Her laptop is a good example of this. At the time it was purchased it was an excellent system but as requirements have grown a single processor system…
When I was building my System Center 2012 testing lab I installed SQL server in a virtual running on my HyperV systems I was controlling with SCVMM 2012 RC. I’ll admit it, it seemed like a good idea at the time. I put all of the System Center products into one database server with two…
A colleague of mine was having issues with the new OpsMgr 2012 web console that it would return to the login prompt after a period of time. This would represent an issue for organizations who want to display this web page on views which would not be regularly interacted with (such as Network Operations Center…
Since I started with Operations Manager 2007 this has been a commonly asked question – “How can you tell what alerts are created by a rule versus those that are created by a monitor?” (This is important because you generally do not want to close alerts which are generated by a monitor – see this…
The Microsoft Management Summit 2012 looks like it will be an incredible experience with all of the updates occurring in the System Center 2012 space (pun somewhat intended)! I highly recommend that if you can be there – be there. I think that this will be an incredible MMS – I’m looking forward to it…
This summary is the work of a colleague of mine Eric Morrison who attended both the SystemCenterUniverse event and two days of user group meetings presented by the infamous Wally Mead. Well done Eric (and of course well done Wally for spending time with the crew in Austin!). Eric’s blog post on this is available…
The following questions are the result of yesterday’s self-proclaimed game of “stump the chump” with myself playing the chump in a room full of IT folks (who had some excellent questions on Configuration Manager and Operations Manager). The responses below are from my colleagues who stepped up to provide answers to these questions including: …
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