This week’s trivia… Have you ever had Excel translate a date into a seemingly random number? Maybe you enter 4/30/10 and Excel transformed it (against your will, I might add) into 40298. How the heck did it come up with that number? Curiosity strikes you so you enter 5/1, 5/2 and so on…until a pattern…
The Alert Update Connector was released at the end of last week. With this connector, you can modify alert fields with additional information. This will help to help control alert flow going to incident management systems. Download the OpsMgr 2012 Alert Update Connector Here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34783 Feature Summary: •Specify custom field values, owner, and ticket id for alerts generated…
The latest MP from Dell has OpsMgr 2012 Support. This is a quick post about the Installation. The Dell MP allows you to Discover, Monitor and precisely illustrate the health of Dell Servers, Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC) and Chassis Management Controllers (CMC). These Management Packs offer specially created views that you can use to…
I have created a script to help with keeping your Hyper-V servers free of unneeded ISO files. This script will create a list of all ISO files in a folder and its subfolders. Then, it will compare the list to the ISO files which are attached to a VM. After this, it will display all…
Here’s a quick script to help enable Agent Proxy for all Agent Managed Machines. Copy the code below and save as EnableAgentProxy.ps1 Open the Operations Manager Shell Drag and drop the Powershell script from the folder you saved it in onto the OpsMgr Shell Press Enter to run the script Ensure all Agent Managed computers…
Hyper-V Replication is the first feature that I wanted to get up and running in the home lab. I had enough hardware laying around to cobble together a second physical host that I could install Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V on. There are a few prerequisites that are necessary. Prerequisites 2 Physical Hosts running Windows…
As part of authoring on the upcoming System Center 2012 Operations Manager Unleashed book, I was recently trying to track down where some dashboard views were stored. They are built into OpsMgr 2012 and appeared to have been part of a sealed management pack. They are in the Application Monitoring folder, “Applications” and in the…
This past week at the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2012 in Orlando, Microsoft Exchange Product Team, MVPs, MCMs, and community members gathered to discuss the impending release of Exchange 2013. I say “discuss” because that’s how the conference was structured. This wasn’t your typical death-by-PowerPoint with a few demos in between. These were fully interactive sessions. …
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