IT Consulting: Identifying “Optimal” Commute Times
In a previous blog post I discussed the challenges which long commute times as a consultant and gave some options…
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…