Cats are agile and curious creatures. Organizations which allow themselves to focus on core competencies and outsource other functions, such as SharePoint and SQL monitoring and administration, also are typically more agile and competitive in their markets. Server huggers (you know who you are), while completely able to control technology expertise, often find challenges…
A client in the healthcare industry recently approached Catapult Systems to assist with an upgrade and migration of their Sales Tracking System from Paradox to Microsoft SQL Server. The original system was a legacy system with disparate inputs that the client used to manually consolidate and refine sales tracings, as well as to calculate sales…
I was recently working with a dynamic group membership situation where we needed to include all of the sub-OU’s within the group. Our approach was to create a dynamic membership which matched based on a wildcard value that would exist because the sub-OU naming includes the top level OU naming. The result was just what…
At Catapult Systems we understand that if your business strategy is to grow significantly it’s likely that you don’t want your operating costs to grow at the same time. We have found that, as organizations increasingly focus on innovation, they find benefit in outsourcing rudimentary functions. Since we serve multiple clients in the same sector…
The July Meeting of the Office 365 International User Group has been scheduled for July 24th at 8pm GMT/UTC. Below is the Meeting invite, please add this to your calendar and plan on attending the meeting. Tentatively I am planning on talking about the new Lync to Phone service for Office 365 Lync online. If…
I keep this link around for use when remediating or installing SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2012 Agents. This has the most common error codes found and also has the most common remediation steps. I hope you find this useful! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff358634.aspx
In Operations Manager, performance counters are sometimes gathered in bytes (I’ve seen this most recently in monitoring of network devices which gather inbound and outbound bits per second). As a benefit of working with a guy who really knows PowerShell (shout-out to Ambers) I learn a lot of great tricks in PowerShell like this one.…
Operations Manager (SCOM, OpsMgr) has the ability to monitor an untrusted domains as well as highly segmented\firewalled networks. Gateways can be within the trusted domain as well, but are highly segmented by Firewalled VLANs. The Gateways that are installed in the trusted domain do not actually utilize certificates, as the untrusted domain computers do. In this case…
In a recent environment where we were deploying several network devices for monitoring with Operations Manager, we developed the following pre-deployment steps to maximize our success when monitoring SNMP devices in OpsMgr 2012: 1) Create a network monitoring resource pool using management servers or gateways. 2) Get a list of names and IP addresses for…
This morning I received a great honor! I received an email from Microsoft stating I had been awarded as an MVP for Office 365! This is truly a great honor and I greatly appreciate it. If you are not familiar with what the Microsoft MVP program is you can get more information about it here:…
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