At TechEd 2012 Veeam has just announced a great contribution to the OpsMgr community with their free OpsMgr reporting pack. This reporting pack provides a series of reports which extend the report library the Microsoft provides with OpsMgr. These reports include are: Veeam Alert Statistics Report: Shows the alerts statistics for given filter parameters. This…
The Windows 8 preview was released recently and I promised myself that I would show a bit of constraint and not install it right away. I said to myself and all of my colleagues that I was going to wait until the RTM…Well that did not go as planned. We have a physical Windows 7…
Wow, never saw this coming. Fantastic move Microsoft! Not much to add to Glenn Block’s post on Codebetter.com so get all the details there. Happy node-ing!
The game of chess — more than 1,600 years old — has long been used as a metaphor for war, strategy and business. But I believe that a better analogy for business is the game of poker. Read more on my Business Journal column.
During a recently client engagement, I was asked three questions related to Savision Live Maps and OpsMgr 2012 which I thought were worth sharing: 1) What is the difference between the Web Application Availability Monitoring and Web Application Transaction Monitoring in OpsMgr 2012? 2) Can I add entities from different sealed management packs to a…
I recently received a very nice email for a Systems Engineer who specializes in Operations Manager who asked me for advice on becoming well known in the monitoring field. I thought that this was an interesting question on multiple levels but the big concept behind this question is really about how giving back to the…
Today I was working with a client who has completed a pilot project for Office 365. The Admin was working on prepping to move all mailboxes to the cloud when he came upon a problem. The company had just hired a new employee, and instead of creating the user’s mailbox in the on-premises Exchange 2007…
One of my clients recently asked me a very reasonable question that I had not considered yet. Can a crossplat agent be multihomed in OpsMgr? As background in OpsMgr a Windows agent can be multihomed to up to four different management groups (meaning the same agent can report to four different OpsMgr management groups). Some…
This is a Beta installation for .NET 4.5, however, it has been seen that this update fixes the notification channel in SCOM 2012 if notifications are not firing. .NET Framework 4.5 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28978
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