Colorado Client Takes to the Cloud with Catapult Systems Office 365 Jumpstart
With their small IT department struggling to keep up with the day-to-day administration of their on-premises Exchange 2007 environment, a…
App Advisor failing when opening the console (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
In both my lab environment and one of my client environments we were receiving access denied messages or error messages…
SCOM 2012 – Operations Manager Console will not Initialize
Issue · Installed Ops Console using OMCONSOLE.MSI, without prerequisites installed correctly. a. Unable to load SCOM Console b. Unable to…
Brand new System Center reports for OpsMgr from Veeam (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
At TechEd 2012 Veeam has just announced a great contribution to the OpsMgr community with their free OpsMgr reporting pack. …
Windows 8 Program Compatibility Wizard
The Windows 8 preview was released recently and I promised myself that I would show a bit of constraint and…
Microsoft brings Linux VM hosting to Azure
Wow, never saw this coming. Fantastic move Microsoft! Not much to add to Glenn Block’s post on Codebetter.com so get…
Business is a game of poker, not chess
The game of chess — more than 1,600 years old — has long been used as a metaphor for war,…
Web Application Availability Monitoring, Savision Live Maps and non-sealed management packs (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
During a recently client engagement, I was asked three questions related to Savision Live Maps and OpsMgr 2012 which I…
IT Consulting: Advice for aspiring monitoring folks, Giving back to the technical community (#SCOM, #SYSCTR, #ITConsulting)
I recently received a very nice email for a Systems Engineer who specializes in Operations Manager who asked me for…