Sometimes we get wrapped up in day to day operations and don’t notice that an application such as System Center can quickly come to it’s knees. All of a sudden you are left with an application that is cumbersome or hard to use. The slowness could be for various reasons, but a good start is…
On the 26th we had our March meeting of the Office 365 International User Group. I have been very busy at work lately, well busy is an understatement, I have been slammed! Thankfully I was able to secure a speaker for this meeting last week while at the Austin, TX airport. Darrell Webster (@DarrellCWebster) graciously agreed…
I just thought I’d extend the article noted ‘OpsMgr 2012 and 2007 (R2): How to Import – Exchange Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack (v14.03.0038.004)’ and post a second series for the “Optional Configurations” noted in the MP Guide (download link below). Download site: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=692 Optional Configurations Summary: 1. Create Test Mailboxes for Synthetic Transaction Tests…
Situation: You notice that there is an alert in the Operations Console regarding ‘PSTN Peer To Peer Call Synthetic Transaction failed’. You start investigating the situation, but dont know where to look. You also have a few open calls\tickets about Lync Quality Degredation for calls in a specific region. You think that Operations Manager should…
If you want to stand up new sites for monitoring your extended Lync Infrastructure, or if you need to re-deploy OpsMgr Monitoring, follow these steps. 1. Add Agent Push Administrator permissions to Server a. Agent Action Service Account 2. Push SCOM Agent to Server and enable Agent proxy a. Go to Administration in the…
If you are preparing to start a business intelligence and/or data warehousing project, then you probably already know that BI project failure is not uncommon. While there are many reasons why projects fail, we can boil it all down to a handful of mistakes that can be avoided 100% of the time. When picking your…
On March 13, 2013, Microsoft released the Lync 2013 Mobile Client. Here is my first experience with the install on an iPhone 5. To locate the app I simply went to the Apple App Store and searched for Lync. There are two versions of Lync Mobile in the App Store. Microsoft Lync 2010 for iPhone…
You may have run into this issue of having an underscore in the Instance name, are trying to deploy SCSM, and can’t seem to find out the resolution. What do you do?? Situation: I can hit both the RS URLs and the service is running fine prior to deploying SCSM 2012. The SSRS instance is…
Enabling the SharePoint WebPart is an easy way to consume OpsMgr information into SharePoint. This includes Dashboards, Alerts, State views and many other KPI’s. I just thought I’d share a quick run thorough of the OpsMgr WebPart setup for SharePoint. I will post another how to on importing the web part you have created. 1.…
I just thought I’d post this handy link for installing an Agent on a WORKGROUP Computer without a Gateway. The process is slightly different, but very similar. The OpsMgr Agent must be able to establish a security communication channel to the management server using the correct certificate. Agents in the workgroup must be able to…
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