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…
Error using Enable-RemoteMailbox for Office 365
In this blog, you will find how to enable a Remote Mailbox for Office 365 when getting an error.…
Can a crossplat (UNIX/Linux) agent be multihomed in OpsMgr? (#SCOM #SYSCTR)
One of my clients recently asked me a very reasonable question that I had not considered yet. Can a crossplat…
SCOM 2012: Email Notifications and SMTP Channel not functioning
This is a Beta installation for .NET 4.5, however, it has been seen that this update fixes the notification channel…
QuickTricks: Bulk delete Management Packs in OpsMgr 2012, Remove all non-English Management Packs
I originally blogged on this for OpsMgr 2007 R2 which is available at: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/67980/Default.aspx. In OpsMgr 2012 there are updated…
Cascading Menus in SharePoint Lists using InfoPath
This is to create cascading menus for a SharePoint List – For instance choose a region and get the countries…
Windows 8, IE 10, compatibility mode and SCC
I recent rebuilt my laptop to run on Windows 8 and had been working around one annoyance I had found…