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…
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…
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…
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…
What if you have an environment which is geographically dispersed and uses redundant WAN links to provide connectivity between the locations and you want to monitor these links with Operations Manager? You are using Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the environment and you want to know if a remote location is up or down, and…
This is the third of the four part series that describes how to create custom groups to scope the Operations console, used through the rest of this series: Part 1: Creating Custom Groups Part 2: Using Custom Groups to create Views Part 3: Using Custom Groups with Subscriptions & Using One-Off Notifications Part 4: Using…
The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed book has been released (ok… it was released on August 3rd but I’ve been running a little behind)! There are some incredibly deep ConfigMgr people who worked under the leadership of Kerrie Meyler (the lead author of OpsMgr 2007 and MOM 2005 Unleashed). Authors and contributors on this…
For a while now I have been using a somewhat low-tech solution to provide tv programming for our house. We were using a satellite dish which was connected to an old-school Tivo Series 1 (which I had hacked to add two 120 gb hard drives, a half a gig of memory and a network adapter).…
This is the second of the four part series that describes how to create custom groups to scope the Operations console, used through the rest of this series: Part 1: Creating Custom Groups Part 2: Using Custom Groups to create Views Part 3: Using Custom Groups with Subscriptions & using one-off notifications Part 4: Using…
When a server owner opens the full Operations Manager console for the first time, the number of management packs and options available within the console can seem overwhelming. There’s a way to alleviate this – you can use customized groups to carve-up the OpsMgr console so that individual groups that own servers can see only…
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