OpsMgr Dashboard Integration: Developing SLT’s which show availability with and without maintenance windows (#SCOM)
For a long time I got stuck in the mindset that a Service Level Tracking item (SLT) contained a single…
Microsoft System Center 2012 Lab Part 1 System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
The 2012 versions of the System Center family of products are due to be released by Microsoft Q4 of 2011.…
Replace Scenario alternative for USMT Migration
Fantastic post over on The Deployment Guys blog about using USMT in a Replace scenario. Read the full post here.…
Getting more into DVD Media Based Deployment
Great post over on The Deployment Guys. Read the full post here. One of the great features of MDT 2010/2012…
Handy Documents Those Office 365 Service Descriptors
Microsoft has done a good job of publishing Service Descriptors for Office 365 here, http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13602. These documents have become a…
OpsMgr Dashboard Integration: Creating Multiple Unique SLD Sites (#SCOM)
The Service Level Dashboard 2.0 provides a useful dashboard to display either Service Levels or overview of the health of…
Is It Me? – The pain of bad UX
As Bill Hicks, the late, great, Texas comedian used to often say “Is it me…?”. We all get upset about something,…
Chrome
Yes, so no one really likes warning messages/prompts! Speaking of browser windows… we all have our personal preferences on what…
Talk TechNet Replay
Here’s a link to the replay for my recent appearance on Talk TechNet: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032490798&role=attend&pw=4F839DB8. We discussed a lot things including…
Two OSD Application Install Issues
Here’s a quick synopsis of two issues I had at my recent customer installing some “packaged” applications during OSD. The…