QuickTricks: PowerShell, math and OpsMgr (#PowerShell, #SCOM)
In Operations Manager, performance counters are sometimes gathered in bytes (I’ve seen this most recently in monitoring of network devices…
Tips and Tricks: SCOM (2012 and 2007) Gateway Server Troubleshooting Guide
Operations Manager (SCOM, OpsMgr) has the ability to monitor an untrusted domains as well as highly segmented\firewalled networks. Gateways can be…
Recommended steps before adding network devices, options to monitoring network devices without SNMP, PowerShell samples to ping or telnet based on a file (#SCOM, #SYSCTR, #PowerShell)
In a recent environment where we were deploying several network devices for monitoring with Operations Manager, we developed the following…
Microsoft MVP for Office 365
This morning I received a great honor! I received an email from Microsoft stating I had been awarded as an…
Getting Report Builder 3.0 to run from the OpsMgr 2012 Console (#SCOM, #SQL, #SYSCTR)
Updated version of the blog post provided at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/07/13/getting-report-builder-3-0-to-run-from-the-opsmgr-2012-console-scom-sql-sysctr-1.aspx
Critical Update 06/29/2012: Installation/Configuration and Tuning the Exchange 2010 management pack (#SCOM, #Exchange, #SYSCTR, #PowerShell)
Critical Update: On June 27th the Exchange Management pack was removed from the catalog and a blog post of explanation…
It Takes Two: Together, Catapult Systems and Slingrock Spark Client’s Excitement for Office 365 SharePoint Online Deployment
Catapult Systems just finished an Office 365 SharePoint Online deployment for one of our Texas clients. Read on to…
Advanced ADFS Claims Rules for Office 365 SSO
A colleague sent me a blog post from the Directory Services Team title "An ADFS Claims Rules Adventure" This post…
QuickTricks: Identifying Windows 2003 servers without OU information requiring a hotfix (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
During a recent client engagement, we needed to create groups based upon Organizational Unit (OU). We found that our Windows…
Office 365 User Group Meeting Recap
We had a great Office 365 International User Group Meeting today! I would like to thank all the attendees for…