There was an interesting discussion today (Taming IT with the Microsoft Private Cloud) which shows the deeper level of integration occurring in the System Center space. The following is my “Summary for Geeks” from the meeting above: Packaging and Pricing change: simplified the pricing from 8 SKU’s down to 2 SKU’s [System Center Standard, System…
Cool news update, I just received word that System Center Universe (www.systemcenteruniverse.com) has passed the 1000+ registration mark! Let’s make this into the biggest System Center community event ever!
OpsMgr 2007 introduced the concept of a Root Management Server and Secondary Management Servers. In OpsMgr2007 the RMS comprised 3 services providing the following functionality: · SDK Service o Console access and role based access control o Connectors to other management systems · Health Service o Notifications o Group Calculations o Availability o Dependency Monitor…
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…
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