It has been 2 weeks since the new lab server was built and I wanted to share the up-to-now configuration of my Private Cloud Lab. The ultimate goal of this lab environment is to learn and demonstrate the following elements of the private cloud dynamic datacenter, Self Service, Automation and Orchestration. The lab has been…
When are are monitoring server health from a top level NOC type view (such as this one) if we just include all of the servers in an environment it’s pretty much always going to be red because there is almost some issue going on in the environment. To provide a realistic state of health for…
Hello, and welcome to my blog! Since this is my first post, I’ll let you know that you can expect to see all kinds of posts here, from very technical like this first one, to governance, to user experience and so on. I’m happy to hear from you, especially if you see any errors or…
I’ve had a couple of people ask me the same OpsMgr question recently which indicates that it’s time to blog something (condition A occurs more than 1x, perform these actions – Hey I’m just like a well written orchestrator workflow ). How can I quickly skill up on OpsMgr 2012 – The Top 10…
Based upon the discussions in this article, the core question still stands – what dashboard technologies should I use and when? The first step is to identify the actual dashboard requirements for the organization: “We want dashboards” – isn’t quite sufficient for requirements. Specifically we’re looking for items like: 1) The goal is to…
Commitment can be a scary thing. Just ask anyone who is moving jobs, getting married or buying a house. The same is true for stakeholders when they sign off on a requirements deliverable. You are asking them to take ownership for verifying that the requirements elicitation and analysis effort is concluded and that the written…
As most everyone knows in the OpsMgr community Kevin Holman has an excellent article on the various CU installations including the one on CU5: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/08/03/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu5-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx We ran into an issue which I did not see discussed in his article however – or to be more clear – his article told us what we had to…
I spent some time today working on installation of the System Center Cloud Service Process Pack beta (available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27844. Since I already had a functional System Center 2012 RC environment I had high hopes that this would not take a long time for installation. I ran into a few challenges – I’m…
Dan and a plethora of the OpsMgr (#SCOM) MVP’s had a good discussion on OpsMgr last night which hit the web today (unscripted and unedited!). Highlights included updates to OpsMgr 2012 around APM, cross-platform, dashboards and more! The podcast is available at: http://insidepodcastnetwork.tv/show/ic14/. Here’s the summary from Dan: “Pete and Dan are joined by Kerrie…
MDT 2012 Beta 2–User-Driven Installation (UDI) Version 2 – Chris’s Blog – Just weedin around Microsoft – Site Home – TechNet Blogs Great introduction to UDI V2 over on the TechNet Blogs by Chris Adams.
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