This is the last integration point I was looking into between System Center (Configuration Manager in this case) and Azure. Configuration Manager 2012 with SP1 can use use an Azure based distribution point. I did some looking into this and one of my colleagues pointed me to a great blog article on how to configure…
As part of some pre-sales related work that I was asked to look into, I spent some time working with what is available via System Center 2012 to provide monitoring for applications which are deployed in Windows Azure. I quickly found that this is not a simple question to answer and started gathering up lessons…
Today I’m upgrading the rest of my System Center products in my lab to SP1. I have some VMs that were RTM and some that are Beta SP1. When upgrading Orchestrator I received an error message saying “Setup detected that all Orchestrator features are already installed on this computer” The reason why I got that…
I had a few minutes of free time today to check into the System Center Universe mobile application today and it looks very cool. Check out the screenshot below from my “preferred mobile device”. Check out the universe on the mobile platform of your choice – look for “SCU2013” in the App Store, the Play…
Today I decided to upgrade ConfigMgr 2012 to SP1 in my lab but I ran into a problem. My ConfigMgr server was running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation. During the upgrade my server shutdown because it was past the expiration date. Since I didn’t have anything of value in ConfigMgr I thought it would…
During a recent blog post, I used the DPM integration with Azure to backup some of my content in my home lab to the cloud. Pretty soon after I started my backup, the complaints started coming in from the other users of this Internet connection. Quotes included “Why is NetFlix so slow?”, and “Who’s taking…
I ran into a strange error message when installing DPM 2012 connecting to a remote SQL server. The remote SQL server is Microsoft SQL 2008 SP2 with a DPM instance. The error was produced during the prerequisites check. The text of the error is: The installation of Reporting Services is not correctly configured or no…
To see how DPM 2012 SP1 integrates with Azure from a backup perspective, I recently spent some time testing this integration. Prior to performing this integration there are two things need to be done ahead of time: 1) Have DPM 2012 installed with SP1 2) You also need to have a Microsoft account for organizations…
Both Microsoft Exchange on-premise and the hosted version of Office 365 provide a calendar publishing feature that makes it easy to share your calendar free/busy information with your friends and family. For end-users, it takes less than 5 minutes to have this working and only takes a few mouse clicks. 1. Logon to Outlook Web…
For background here, there was an article written entitled: Top 5 Reasons Why Sysadmins Should Find SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor a Refreshing Alternative to Microsoft® SCOM. This article discussed five benefits they see to using SolarWinds versus System Center Operations Manager. In this article they referenced an article I had written for Windows IT…
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