Our Austin BI practice has just been engaged to assist a student housing development firm with their upgrade from SQL 2005 to 2008 R2. In addition to planning and completing the upgrade, Catapult Systems will install a new instance of SQL 2008 R2 Reporting Services (SSRS) and help with the reporting asset migration from the…
So I have previously blogged about the issue of the ADFS server and the Microsoft Online Services needing to have the shared certificate regenerated each year, http://office365evangelist.com/?p=489. So I would like to expand on this issue as it affected me directly last night. Not in the way most would think. Around 2:30am my mobile phone…
This is one of the most common questions I have received over the years supporting Operations Manager and my general approach has been to include an Operations Manager (OpsMgr) administrator in all subscriptions and use unique channels per subscription with unique senders and then to use Outlook rules to categorize what email is received.…
The next meeting of the Office 365 International User Group meeting has been scheduled for May 29, 2012 at 8pm UTC! Please go to my Site to be able to download a meeting invite for the event. While the full agenda is still being worked on I can let you know we plan on unveiling…
The always divisive David provides an entertaining look at why people are averse to loss as they progress in their careers. He also talks about the illusionary ceilings for education and questions us to think about why we continue to cling to our existing body of knowledge around software, or any topic that is accumulated…
The month of May is going to be a busy for me with three speaking engagements in three different states. First up next week I will be traveling to Phoenix to speak at the Cloud Intelligence Conference Phoenix 2012 This is a one day mini-conference May 8th, I will be speaking about the Value of…
Operations Manager 2007: The default location in OpsMgr 2007 for Management Servers is: \Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Health Service State The default location in OpsMgr 2007 for Agents is: \Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Health Service State Operations Manager 2012: The default location in OpsMgr 2012 for Management Servers is: \program files\System Center 2012\Operations…
I struggled a bit attempting to generate dynamic javascript in an MVC Razor page view. I kept getting the following error: Too many characters in character literal. I did a little research and found the answer. You will need to include @using System.Text; at the top of your page view. To build my javascript, I…
Issue: Somehow in my lab environment I ended up with an agent which was both Agent Monitored and Agentless monitored. This was causing issues with my management server (causing it to go grey) and whenever I flushed the health state and restarted services it would come back online for a few minutes at a time…
Continuing with my series on Hyper-v 3.0 PowerShell, I wrote a script to rename the the Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) attached to a Virtual Machine (VM). The script will query the VM to determine the attached VHDs. It will then rename the VHDs using the naming convention: <VM Name>_<Controller Type>_<Controller Number>_<Controller Location> e.g. TestVM1_IDE_0_0.vhd After…
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