Installing Windows Server 2012
This is my first of hopefully many posts involving the latest and greatest server operating system Windows Server 2012. This…
OpsMgr 2012 Installation in a two server configuration (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
When installing Operations Manager in a two server configuration (OpsMgr Management Server on one, SQL databases and reporting on the…
Recap of a Big Week for Microsoft (Tablets and WP8), Upcoming Office 365 User Group Meeting
This past week I was on vacation with my family in the San Diego, CA area! We stayed at a…
MOM Team Blog: Custom Dashboard Authoring and Publishing Step by Step Guide
These are very cool free dashboards for SCOM 2012, and also a how to for using GTMTool.exe. …
Minor issue with the “Install Agent and Certificate on UNIX and Linux Computers Using the Command Line” documentation (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
The “Install Agent and Certificate on UNIX and Linux Computers Using the Command Line” document available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212686.aspx currently states:…
Storage Quick Reference
This is a collection of information about storage concepts such as Hard Drives, Disks, Partitions, Volumes, Snapshots, Shadow Copies. …
Error deploying OpsMgr agent to RedHat (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
During a recent OpsMgr agent deployment we were failing with a message that “The task cannot be executed against the…
Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) Part 1
I recently completed a project working with MBAM. I really don’t understand why more companies don’t use it to encrypt…
App-v Sequencing Best Practices
Sequencing an application with the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Sequencer, can be tricky business. However, you can greatly improve…
OpsMgr 2012 resource requirements and usage recommendations for Agent and Agentless monitoring (#SCOM)
The following is a summary of the statistics gathered during the deployment of an Operations Manager 2012 agent to a…