SystemCenterCentral has just announced a new contest where you can win a Surface RT or a copy of the Operations Manager 2012 Unleashed book signed by Pete Zerger and myself! What do you need to do to win? Share what you already have learned as an Operations Manager administrator – How you tune your alerts…
Check out this video by Microsoft highlighting my company Catapult Systems, Office 365 and one of our clients UDR, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCy_bbFcV5E
Prior to releasing a Service Manager implementation for production use, I like to perform some load testing to see how it is performing. During the development phase of a Service Manager deployment it is easy to forget about performance testing. While you are in there working on your own everything is running smooth. Then you…
During a recent blog post on how to solve the “Monitor the Monitor” question using SolarWinds and Operations Manager, I wrote three blog posts on the topic: Operations Manager and SolarWinds: Integrating the SolarWinds management pack for Operations Manager 2012 Operations Manager and SolarWinds: Monitoring Operations Manager with SolarWinds Operations Manager and SolarWinds: Monitoring…
On April 2, 2013, Microsoft release Cumulative Update 1 for Exchange Server 2013. For details about this update visit Description of Cumulative Update 1 for Exchange Server 2013. The RTM version of Exchange 2013 is Version 15.0 (Build 516.32). This CU will update the system to Version 15.0 (Build 620.29). Install Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update…
In my previous post on Upgrading from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 on Windows 2012 (Part 1), we covered the prerequisites to installing Exchange 2013 in your Exchange 2010 environment. In this article we will cover installing Exchange 2013 and configuring it for coexistence. For simplicity’s sake, I will show screenshots from a single “all-in-one”…
Microsoft announced the release of Exchange 2013 last fall, but this was not very useful to most of us, because there was no support for previous versions of Exchange until new Service Packs and Hotfixes were available. In other words, you could not install Exchange 2013 into your current Exchange organization. In February Microsoft finally…
As CEO, I am often asked to be part of the interview process at Catapult Systems, even when the position does not report to me directly. I tailor my questions to each role and situation, of course, but always conclude the interview by asking the candidate to share the most recent nonfiction book they’ve read…
It is always best practice to have two separate System Center Service Manager environments. One in production, and another one for development. The great thing about the way Service Manager is designed, is that you can do your development and testing in your development environment. Then when you are ready to move you changes into…
At this point, we have used Orchestrator to create a new computer account in a specific OU in Active Directory. We then used Orchestrator to create the computer based on a template in VMM. We are now going to generate alerts in System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager as a new Computer (Windows 2012 R2…
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