Tool to quickly compare OpsMgr and Service Manager management packs versus what is in the catalog (#SCOM, #SCSM)
A colleague of mine pointed this out to me and I have to say, this is a really useful tool…
August Office 365 International User Group Meeting Recap
Yesterday we had another great Office 365 International User Group Meeting. The primary presentation was by Robert Crane titled "SharePoint…
SQL Instances and System Center 2012 (#SYSCTR #SQL #SCOM #SCCM #SCSM)
I started this blog post from a System Center MVP perspective, but with internal conversations with our SQL MVP I…
QuickTricks: Get a count of alerts per day in OpsMgr 2007 R2 and 2012 or estimating ticket volume in Service Manager (#SCOM, #SCSM, #SYSCTR, #SQL)
As part of a dashboard project I was working on in OpsMgr 2007 R2 I created a series of SQL…
Office 365 free busy not working with Exchange 2003
In an Exchange 2003 and Office 365 Hybrid Deployment environment, the Office 365 users are able to view the Free/Busy…
Upgrading Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V servers to Windows 2012 Hyper-V servers (#SCVMM, #WinServ, #SYSCTR)
I’ve been excited to see how Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V will work in my lab since I heard about some…
News and Updates for Office 365
It has been a pretty busy time for Office 365, and I am not even talking about the Customer Preview…
QuickTricks: Migrating subscriptions between Operations Manager environments (#SCOM, #PowerShell, #SYSCTR)
Recently during an OpsMgr 2007 R2 to OpsMgr 2012 engagement we needed to migrate all subscriptions, subscribers and channels from…
Updating the Windows Update Agent (WUA) with ConfigMgr
With the latest update to WSUS (described in KB2720211) also came an update to the WUA, version 7.6.7600.256; however, this…
Automating installation of the OpsMgr 2012 console with ConfigMgr 2012 (#SCOM, #CONFIGMGR, #SYSCTR)
To deploy the OpsMgr 2012 console, there are three items that need to be deployed. The first is .NET 4.0,…