Up until recently in environment where the client has a highly available Exchange server environment I used to agree to using a single SMTP relay when defining an OpsMgr channel for notification. My thought process was that as long as the Exchange server was highly available that would cover it so there would be no…
I received a good question from a colleague of mine in Atlanta recently (shout-out to the Atlanta user group!). Here’s the question: “Can you have both explicit and dynamic members in a group? Simple question but no one seems to address it.” Just to keep this extra-interesting I tried this in OpsMgr 2012. First I…
I just received notice that SystemCenterUniverse in Austin has officially sold out of tickets! That’s incredible news that I’m really happy to be able to say it but the even better news is this. We still have room in our simulcast locations and if you have a user community that you want to get involved…
(Hey, Cameron’s back from vacation and finally started blogging again !) One of my colleagues was using the OpsMgr 2007 console which was missing the folder view on the left side of the screen (shown below in the reporting pane in OpsMgr 2012 as one example): What’s the quick way to return this to the…
Usually it makes sense to say what we can do with a web based version of a console. With the new OpsMgr 2012 RC web console it makes more sense to me to say what it doesn’t do! Let me explain why. [Please note this blog entry is about the RC version of OpsMgr 2012…
Quick community update: We have a solid team on the OpsMgr 2012 Unleashed project and authoring has started! Keep your eyes out for System Center 2012 Operations Manager Unleashed – I’ll blog with major updates when they occur. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/announcing-system-center-operations-manager-2
Ok, I’ll admit it – I don’t like backing up my systems. There, I’ve said it. It has bit me multiple times and I’m sure that it will again in the future. I’ve been working in my private cloud lab and had an interesting gotcha which brought up yet another good reason to do backups…
My boss recently asked me a very good question about how we can upgrade or install System Center 2012 products. From talking with our internal System Center champions the list below is a summary of available upgrade options for the various System Center 2012 products. Product Name In-Place Upgrade MultiHomed Fresh Installation Configuration Manager *1…
I’ve been spending significant amounts of time working with multiple dashboard solutions which are available for Operations Manager. Specifically Savision Live Maps, Visio 2010 integration, Service Level Dashboard 2.0, and the Service Manager dashboard (customized for OpsMgr). Through integration of these disparate dashboard solutions, we have been able to develop some extremely comprehensive solutions to…
So now that we’ve discussed all of these different dashboard technologies how do we integrate them into a single NOC dashboard which uses each of the functions which we have available? The key to this concept is to use the various unique URL’s which are available for the various different dashboard solutions to provide an…
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