During Q&A after my Operations Manager Evolution session (BB37) several interesting questions were posed when I hope to respond to over the next several weeks. The question asked (paraphrased below) is: “I have an environment where I need to have two different sets of overrides defined for the same rule or monitor. As an example,…
During Q&A after my Operations Manager Evolution session (BB37) several interesting questions were posed when I hope to respond to over the next several weeks. The question asked (paraphrased below) is: “I have created a dynamic group to disable alerting based upon a condition that occurs in my crossplatform environment. The problem is however, that…
At MMS I had a request to re-blog this as a specific topic to make it easier to find. Specifically the question was asked how to configure OpsMgr to allow more than 10 objects to be selected to perform a task (or run a report) on. The following is a subset from: http://blogs.technet.com/b/operationsmgr/archive/2008/11/11/opsmgr-2007-registry-keys-to-control-the-refresh-of-the-admin-console.aspx — Registry…
The second keynote of MMS 2011 was starting to look kinda cloudy again but the focus shifted to mobile devices – the “Now Generation" – and Consumerization of IT. Specific detailed points from the keynote include the following items: Announcements: ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2 announced as available today (feature complete). Forefront Enterprise Protection moved from…
The first keynote of MMS 2011 was pretty interesting. Specific detailed points from the keynote include the following items: Announcements: System Center Advisor announced: Azure service using the OpsMgr Agent to return configuration and make recommendations for changes to the configuration. This application was demonstrated during the keynote showing how a hotfix would be relevant…
At the MVP summit this month one of the crew mentioned an idea which really resounded with me. In our client sites, there is often a Network Operations Center (NOC) which has a view of the overall health of the environment. I generally use Savision Live Maps to display this health state and it’s on…
I’ve been spending a lot of my free time working to take out all of the stops on my upcoming presentation for the Microsoft Management Summit (OpsMgr Evolution). This blog article will discuss how to create a custom SQL Synthetic Transaction which writes to a table on a schedule basis and will be discussed…
Check this out – posted by a colleague of mine at Catapult today! https://www.catapultsystems.com/mlist/archive/2011/03/17/the-elusive-documentation-link-in-operations-manager-2007-r2.aspx Good stuff Marty and a great way to start blogging man!
We were recently debugging some issues in an environment where reports are not running correctly due to an error when the report is launched. To debug on this, we were attempting to run reports directly from SRS but we were prompted for these two values (Time Zone, Time Zone Name) to run a report such…
I started working in Microsoft related IT back in the Windows 3.x/NT 3.51 days and Windows has come a long way since that time. I was working with a colleague of mine last week and he showed me a useful feature from the command line (which my colleague said has been available since Windows 95…
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