System Center 2012 Operations Manager – The printed books have arrived! (#SCOM)
I had a surprise on my doorstep when I got home tonight, check it out! I’m betting that Amazon…
OpsMgr 2012 SP1: Cannot Install OpsMgr due to OperationsManagerDW database files in a non default location for User Databases – Error Code: 0x80131500
I ran into this issue where the RMSe Installation would fail at the Data warehouse configuration during Operations Manager Setup. …
Weekly Exchange PowerShell Tip: Retrieve Send-As Permissions
To determine who has send-as permissions on a mailbox but isn’t the owner of that mailbox you can use this…
Windows Server 2012, Data Deduplication savings for TB sized drives (#WinServ, #HyperV)
One of the features I was recently excited about with the release of Windows Server 2012 is Data Deduplication. I…
OpsMgr 2012 SP1: Reporting Installation Error: Unable to connect to the Data Access Service for this Management Server
Situation: When running the Operations Manager Installation for Reporting, an error is seen below at the Specify a Management Server…
OpsMgr 2012 SP1 and Server 2012: Memory Consumption in MonitoringHost.exe and WMI Handle Leak in WmiPrvSE.exe
I noticed these links in a recent OpsMgr Newsletter that Cameron Fuller had shared and wanted to share a few…
Alignment Considerations for Storage Hardware,Virtual Disk Performance and Windows
Don’t most people agree that it tends to get confusing when considering block\chunk size and alignment? I would say most…
Multi-homed migrations from OpsMgr 2007 R2 to OpsMgr 2012 and overrides (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
There are three approaches which can be used for deployment or migration of Operations Manager. These are: Fresh installation: Used…
SQL Storage Design: Storage Vendor and Microsoft Best Practices – Disk Subsystem alignment and offset
I kept note of typical Best Practices and like to incorporate Storage Vendor Best Practices and Microsoft Best Practices into…
Importing CIs in SC2012 Service Manager using Powershell
If you are like me, you like to find any way possible to leverage powershell to help with tasks that…