I’m a geek – and I get it. It’s not reasonable to expect that people will carry with books on a regular basis. As a consultant we are on different client sites on a regular basis and it’s really difficult to lug around one (or more) technical books. To hear that “see page 601 of…
During a Q&A session at MMS 2010 there was a question raised related to Distributed Applications (DA’s) and limits within the user interface. During my initial tests I had seen some strange results and I wanted to map out what I saw so that they can be avoided when developing DA’s. As a starting point,…
SystemCenterCentral did an interview with several of the authors and contributors on the newly released System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 book including myself. We talked about what’s included in the book including discussions on targeting, authoring and virtualization. The podcast is available at: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/65128/Default.aspx. As a side-note, it was really cool to meet with…
Starting in IT Consulting: I started working for my first consulting company in the early 1990’s. I had just graduated from college and based upon good fortune (as well as a good friend in Rob who referred me to the company), I moved from the ranks of the unemployed into my first job as a…
We ran into a situation where when we tried to open the Operations Manager 2007 R2 console. The console would not open and failed with a message saying that the “SDK service has not yet initialized. Please retry…” To diagnose this we tried to restart services on the RMS and debug from the Operations Manager…
You most likely have already heard multiple times – “Don’t use the Default Management Pack in Operations Manager!”. If not see this article for an example of some fun with cleanup (thank you Mr. Holman!). At MMS last week I was in Rory McCaw’s session entitled “The Top 20 Must Have Customizations”. Rory went through…
We just wrapped up attending the MMS 2010 Keynote by Bob Muglia this morning which was a really good session. There was too much good stuff to go through in details, so what we’re going to do is hit the highlights that we saw during the session: 1) Official releases of both System Center…
The next keynote just wrapped up and there was a lot of good information. Here’s our top 9 items we heard in order of importance: 1) System Center Roadmap: New versions in 2011 for Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Configuration Manager, Service Manager R2, Windows Intune V1. New versions in 2011: Data Protection Manager,…
This week we ran into a couple of issues when attempting to approve a new gateway in our environment which seemed like good ideas to share. The first was: “The request failed with the following error: The gateway server does not exist: gatewayservername”. This was interesting as we have already brought up multiple gateways the…
We have an environment with multiple management groups: One for a lab (an all-in-one environment – discussed here), as well as one for QA, and one for production. We develop the maps in the lab, and then transfer them to QA to use with real data, and the move them into production to map out…
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