I was in the process of configuring the OpsMgr / VMM integration and needed to turn on the SQL Analysis Services component for the integration. The Setup for the Operations Manager Integration is pretty simple, the challenge is getting SQL Analysis Services working properly. One of the designs typically used for an Operations Manager installations…
I was recently working with Cameron Fuller (https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/) and we decided to give Windows Update a try to get new a new OpsMgr Installation updated to the currently release before we started pushing OpsMgr Agents. Here is how we did it… First off, this process for new installations of Operations Manager 2012 SP1 on Windows…
An auto-updating SQL Server Release History spanning the entire product line. Exposed to Microsoft’s new Data Explorer I was impressed by the power of Microsoft’s new tool! Using a WSIWIG data manipulation tool one can create filtered, shaped, pivoted, purged, and preened data sets within Excel – and have them auto-update when data connections are…
For anyone that has begun messing with Design Manager and Branding SharePoint 2013, you may have tried to leverage the export design package functionality. This is a great concept! It appears to have a bug. When you import a site collection SharePoint appears to remove several columns form the Page and Article Page content…
After the installation of Operations Manager 2012 SP1 on a SQL 2012 SP1 Database Server, with both the Database Server and the Operations Manager Server running on Windows 2012; the Operations Manager Data Warehouse DB files are now getting named DATA.mdf and DATA.ldf. Cameron Fuller and JC Cowen has a similar experience where they found…
To get all the users Unified Messaging Extensions: Get-UMMailbox |ft name,extensions,UMDialPlan,UMMailboxPolicy
Hello again to all my fans around the world! Here is a quick and easy fix for your VMM 2012 installs that show upper and lower case hosts. I get this question all the time and though I would dig into it a little bit. At first I though it was a DNS thing that…
As the data in Microsoft SQL Server tables changes their indexes change. Over time these indexes become fragmented. This fragmentation will adversely affect performance. This post provides information to help you understand the detailed mechanics behind fragmentation. It will also help you understand the methods and approaches for performing defragmentation so you can improve your…
I recently encountered a situation in which one of our CRM users wanted to clean up some old CRM Views which were created using Advanced Find and shared with him by someone who is no longer with the company. This presented an interesting dilemma, because the person who shared the views did not give…
As part of preparing for the upcoming MVP pro series of webcasts, I am working on an updated version of Operations Manager Evolution. The goal of the Operations Manager Evolution presentation series is to provide ways to take your Operations Manager to the next level. If you are an existing Operations Manager administrator my goal…
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