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…
I’ve had two situations where we upgraded an Operations Manager 2007 SP1 environment to Operations Manager 2007 R2, and then to CU4 and had a strange situation occur it was completed. Specifically, alert volume dropped significantly after the CU4 portion of the upgrade was complete. We had completed the upgrade on all of the OpsMgr…
I just finished upgrading my first Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V server and first clients to Service Pack 1 – specifically to try out Dynamic Memory. So far I have not been disappointed. To see how this works, I configured one of my servers to use Dynamic Memory and set to start at 512 MB of…
I’ve been preparing for some of my demo’s for my session at the Microsoft Management Summit (BB37 – Operations Manager Evolution) today. During some tests today I was developing a low memory Windows 7 Virtual Router (I had previously done this in Windows 98 and had found that I could run Windows 98 on 12…
I was working on an Operations Manager 2007 R2 deployment a while back where we had deployed the OpsMgr agent (including the Windows Server Operating System management pack) to a significant number of servers. One of the servers was a file server and we were looking for disk information on the system. Interestingly enough –…
Veeam and Catapult Systems are working together to provide a webinar this week on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. In this first installment of the new How to Manage System Center Operations Manager series, join Microsoft MVP Cameron Fuller as he discusses how to: • Understand best practices and create dynamic and static groups •…
Interested in how you can better manage your Operations Manager environment? I’ve been working with Veeam to put together a white paper on how to leverage groups to better manage Operations Manager. This just hit their website today – check it out, it’s free to download and available at: http://vmware.veeam.com/manage-scom-using-groups-wp.html
Are you interested in what dashboard are solutions available for Operations Manager? Check out the February 2011 Edition of Windows IT Pro magazine which has an article I have been working on for this topic! It’s also available online at: http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/systems-management/Operations-Manager-Dashboards.aspx Thank you to the folks at Windows IT Pro for opening this content to…
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