Kicking the tires: Connecting App Controller with your Azure MSDN subscription (#Azure, #scappctrl, #SYSCTR)
As part of further learning how System Center 2012 works with Azure, I spent some time recently working with integrating…
Orchestrator Runbook Reports
The most common feedback I receive with regard to Orchestrator, is people want more reporting. While there is built-in reporting…
Deploying Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions with power delivery
I’ll discuss continuously delivering web and mobile applications in a later post, but since I just recently worked on one…
Kicking the tires: Extending the monitoring of Azure inside the OpsMgr management pack (#SCOM, #Azure, #SYSCTR)
Digging around on the web it looks like there are a lot of good resources out there that people…
5 advantages of powerdelivery over vanilla Team Foundation Server
The open source powerdelivery project for doing continuous delivery I’ve blogged about does a lot of things in a…
Kicking the tires: Monitoring SQL Azure with the monitoring pack for SQL Azure (CTP) in Operations Manager 2012 (#SYSCTR, #SCOM)
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…
Too popular for Lync-Maximum Followers Reached
In Lync 2010 and 2013, if you are too popular, when someone adds you to their contact list they…
Kicking the tires: What performance counters does the OpsMgr Azure management pack monitor out of the box? (#SCOM, #Azure)
During a recent Operations Manager deployment, we spent some time working with the Azure management pack. We investigated the performance…
Kicking the tires: Connecting Orchestrator 2012 SP1 to Windows Azure (#SCORCH, #Azure)
As part of further learning how System Center 2012 works with Azure, I spent some time recently working with the…
10 Recommendations for preventing worm outbreaks
The US Department of Homeland defense issued a statement on Friday to disable Java. It’s a serious recommendation because…