How to share your Outlook calendar free/busy with your friends and family
Both Microsoft Exchange on-premise and the hosted version of Office 365 provide a calendar publishing feature that makes it easy…
Top 5 reasons Why Sysadmins Should Find System Center 2012 Operations Manager a Refreshing Alternative to SolarWinds (#SCOM)
For background here, there was an article written entitled: Top 5 Reasons Why Sysadmins Should Find SolarWinds® Server & Application…
System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager SP1 setup silently fails
Sometimes the setup program for System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 SP1 just disappears, and…
System Center Universe 2013 registration is now over 1000! (#SCU2013)
I just received word that registration for SCU 2013 has passed the 1000 attendee mark! Thank you to everyone who…
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…