We are continuing our discussion for planning the migration to the Private Cloud in our traditional datacenter by reviewing the Infrastructure Layer of the Microsoft Private Cloud Reference Model. In our previous posts we reviewed the Operations and Management layers of the private cloud. Part 1- Journey to the Private Cloud Operations Layer Part 2-…
There are a variety of different reasons which can cause an agent to appear as “Not Monitored”. We were debugging some of these on a client site, and ran through potential issues such as these: DNS issues: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2009/10/opsmgr-agent-stays-in-not-monitored.html Agent configuration incorrect: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2010/01/25/not-monitored-servers-in-opsmgr.aspx Agent XML file: http://www.brighthub.com/hubfolio/tolga-balci/articles/87174.aspx Various issues: http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2008/03/10/getting-headaches-trying-to-figure-out-why-you-are-seeing-the-not-monitored-state-for-management-servers-or-agents.aspx We had been debugging the “Not…
Cloud Fest Denver, http://www.cloudfest.org/Denver/ is scheduled for February 9, 2012. This is a one day conference at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. This is a Microsoft focused cloud event covering Office 365, Azure and private cloud. I will be presenting on the topic of the Value of Office 365 to the Enterprise. I…
Up until recently, the information below would have caused me little to no concern. However, as I have been digging deeper into System Center 2012 Silverlight is becoming more of a core piece of functionality. Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not saying that the new System Center products should not use Silverlight – quite…
My friend Larry has an OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment with Savision Live Maps. Recently they enabled SSL on the OpsMgr Web Console. This caused an issue with the links in Live maps when you drill down and try to open a SCOM object, the URL still includes Port 5109 and essentially breaks the OpsMgr/Savision integration.…
We need to make sure we got these 2 software belows which plays major role. First things first you need two bits of software Something to extract files. Im using zip7 http://www.7-zip.org/ And a cab maker www.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php its called cabpack1.4 Once you downlded the cabpack.14 software its pretty straight forward 1 First make two new…
With the majority of cell phones shipping worldwide with Internet browsing capability and the incredible rise in tablet popularity, we are witnessing a convergence of mobility and the Web. This is triggering a mobile gold rush similar to the Internet boom of the 1990s. Companies of all sizes are scrambling to build mobile apps, which…
So you have built a home lab to test our some new technologies like System Center, or SharePoint, Exchange or Lync but now you need to be able to remotely access those lab environments. What are the options available? Recently I sent the following question to our Infrastructure team as whole to get their perspectives:…
Microsoft has announced the availability of disabling either temporarily or permanently Directory Synchronization (DirSync) in Office 365, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2619062/en-us. This is great news! in BPOS this was always available, but in Office 365 it was not possible. Before this announcement, if you turned on DirSync in Office 365 it was permanent. While you want to ensure…
The great Marnix Wolf has published an article that discusses using SCOM 2007 to monitor SNMP devices. I can’t wait to try this! SNMP, OIDs and SCOM: Let’s start rocking!
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