HP Recently released a set of ProLiant and Bladesystem Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager with OpsMgr 2012 Support. I just wanted to give a quick overview of the support model and give a few useful links. Overview: HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center aids in the management of HP Hardware including…
I’ve seen this as an issue now a few times now in my lab and production environments as well as on the forums. In brief, this specific issue is an access denied (hresult of 0x80070005) when downloading the application content and is clearly denoted in either smsts.log (if the application install is during a task…
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A colleague of mine pointed this out to me and I have to say, this is a really useful tool to have especially when juggling a QA and Production versions of both OpsMgr and ServiceMgr. This is also useful when comparing an OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment an OpsMgr 2012 environment during multi-homed migrations. This took…
Yesterday we had another great Office 365 International User Group Meeting. The primary presentation was by Robert Crane titled "SharePoint to the Cloud" Robert gave a very good overview of SharePoint, SharePoint Online Licensing and talked us through the changes and improvements coming in SharePoint 2013. I then took over presenting and went over how…
I started this blog post from a System Center MVP perspective, but with internal conversations with our SQL MVP I realized that this would be far more interesting as a point/counter-point discussion between several of our Catapult MVP’s based upon our different SME experiences. This isn’t a cut and dry – this is the answer…
As part of a dashboard project I was working on in OpsMgr 2007 R2 I created a series of SQL queries which can gather information from the OperationsManager database (not recommended) or from the OperationsManagerDW (recommended). These are available for download at: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/Downloads/DownloadsDetails/tabid/144/IndexID/86822/Default.aspx Recently we had a request to identify an estimated number of tickets…
In an Exchange 2003 and Office 365 Hybrid Deployment environment, the Office 365 users are able to view the Free/Busy information of Exchange 2003 users or resources. However, the Exchange 2003 user may not be able to view the Free/Busy information of the Office 365 users or resources unexpectedly. Many configuration issues may cause this…
I’ve been excited to see how Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V will work in my lab since I heard about some of the new functionality so I spent a good portion of my weekend going through the process to upgrade my HyperV labs from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012. Please note, SCVMM 2012 SP1 CPT2…
It has been a pretty busy time for Office 365, and I am not even talking about the Customer Preview of the next major update of the service which includes the 2013 products. Wanted to take a few minutes to highlight a few of the new and improved features for the current version of Office…
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