Building a Low Memory Virtual Router in #Win7

In lab and test environments it’s often useful to be able to provide a configuration which can emulate multiple physical locations. Examples of this include testing a multiple site Active Directory configuration or to showing the impact of network latency on applications. Historically I have used a Windows 98 system to provide this functionality (definitely…

MMS 2011: Operations Manager Evolution-Creating a Custom Synthetic Transaction in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (#SCOM)

As part of the Operations Manager Evolution presentation at MMS this year (BB37), we created a custom synthetic transaction which determined health based upon events logged on a computer running the Operations Manager agent. Initially these were created as a monitor on the agent but the result was an impact on the health of the…