Sometimes the setup program for System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 SP1 just disappears, and I’ve even seen it do this with previous versions. One cause might be if the user account that launches setup.exe has special characters in the name. I like to follow best practice and use two accounts,…
I just received word that registration for SCU 2013 has passed the 1000 attendee mark! Thank you to everyone who has signed up for this event – I am looking forward to this more every day! There are still seats available both in person in Irving and at our simulcast locations! Sign up soon, as…
As part of further learning how System Center 2012 works with Azure, I spent some time recently working with integrating App Controller with an Azure subscription. With App Controller, there are no downloads required to integrate with Azure (such as the management pack for Operations Manager or the integration pack for Orchestrator). This blog posts…
The most common feedback I receive with regard to Orchestrator, is people want more reporting. While there is built-in reporting for Orchestrator, it is not easily accessible. You can either go into the Runbook Designer and look at each individual runbook, or you can use the Instances tab in the Orchestrator console. In either case…
I’ll discuss continuously delivering web and mobile applications in a later post, but since I just recently worked on one I’d like to start with guidance for using powerdelivery to deliver a Business Intelligence (BI) solution. This solution might deliver databases, cubes, packages, reports, or SharePoint dashboards like PerformancePoint. I’ll assume at this point you…
Digging around on the web it looks like there are a lot of good resources out there that people have put together to provide assistance with extending monitoring of Azure from Operations Manager. The following is a set of links that I found during our investigation on how to extend what information we are gathering…
The open source powerdelivery project for doing continuous delivery I’ve blogged about does a lot of things in a small package, so it’s natural to want to understand why you would bother to use it even if you like the concepts of continuous delivery but you’ve been using off the shelf Microsoft Team Foundation Server…
The quick answer here is that the current SQL Azure management pack (http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/monitoring-pack-for-sql-azure-ctp-12884935376) is not available as a production version yet, and the CTP version does not support Operations Manager 2012. If you attempt to add this management pack in Operations Manager it will add correctly and show the following additional Management Pack Template: However,…
In Lync 2010 and 2013, if you are too popular, when someone adds you to their contact list they will see the following message “Maximum Followers Reached”. This topic is also covered in TechNet. This can be an annoyance in very large companies or people who are too cool for their own good. :-)…
During a recent Operations Manager deployment, we spent some time working with the Azure management pack. We investigated the performance counters which are collected by the Operations Manager Azure management pack, the views to display performance counters from Azure and in this article we also include a link which has information on how to add…
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