The Top-5 benefits of combining Operations Manager and SharePoint? [#SCOM, #SYSCTR, #SharePoint]
Environments which have SharePoint available gain several benefits from using SharePoint together with Operations Manager. The following is my Top-5…
Positives and negatives splitting monitoring between production and non-production systems (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
A little while back I was asked a question that I wanted to spend some time on answering with more…
Office 365 International User Group August Meeting
On August 28th at 8:00pm GMT/UTC we will be holding the Office 365 International User Group Meeting. Below is a…
System Center 2012 Orchestrator FAQ (#SCORCH, #SYSCTR)
The following blog post is a series of Q&A items related to System Center Orchestrator 2012. Thanks to Marty List,…
Upgrading an all-in-one OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment to OpsMgr 2012 [#SCOM, #SYSCTR]
The following was done as part of a project to validate that network devices monitored by OpsMgr 2007 R2 using…
ConfigMgr 2012 and 32-bit Application Installers
Why are 32-bit application installers special and why do they need special handling? First, a caveat: If you don’t…
Lync 2010 Cumulative Update 6 (June 15, 2012)
Microsoft has released CU6 for Lync Server 2010. The best way to update your Lync server is to use the…
How do I integrate SQL databases into Service Manager 2012 as Configuration Items? [#SCSM, #SCOM, #SYSCTR, #SQL]
During a recent client engagement, there was a request to add databases to Service Manager as CI’s. This was in…
Stand apart from competitors; surprise your clients
The element of surprise isn’t bound to the battlefield, nor is it only something to spring on one’s enemies. Think…
Windows Server 2012 Data Deduplication
Data deduplication is one of Windows Server 2012’s many new features. It’s a role that you can enable on volumes…