Q&A from Windows 7 Discussion

  During a recent discussion on Windows 7 there were some solid questions asked about DirectAccess and BranchCache which I did not have the answer to. So after some research here they are!   Question: What ports are used from the client to the DirectAccess Infrastructure? Answer: (Reference from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectAccess) “DirectAccess uses IPv6 to reach…

Q&A from Webcast: Overview of Windows Server 2008 R2

Thank you for everyone who attended the recent webcast on Windows Server 2008 R2 (https://www.catapultsystems.com/matthew/archive/2009/10/12/catapult-webcast-overview-of-windows-server-r2.aspx). The video for this is available at mms://videos.catapultsystems.com/Marketing/serverr2.wmv. There were several good questions asked which we needed to do additional research on and were going to write-up the answers for. This is the summary of the thoughts from a variety…

How to Use Customized Groups to simplify the OpsMgr Console for Server Owners – Part 4

This is the final posting of the four part series describing how to use the custom groups to secure views within OpsMgr: Part 1: Creating Custom Groups (http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!1940.entry) Part 2: Using Custom Groups to create Views (http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!1969.entry) Part 3: Using Custom Groups with Subscriptions & One-Off Notifications (http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!2017.entry) Part 4: Using Custom Group to secure…

Getting-The-Red-Out: OpsMgr and Defining Alerts Criticality for your environment

System Center Operations Manager 2007 provides an extremely comprehensive solution to monitor your entire Windows (and now non-Windows) environment, and provides great knowledge about issues which are occurring or may soon occur. The level of information available within the various management packs is extremely comprehensive and knowledge is provided within the management packs which assist…