One of the common approaches that I use when tuning OpsMgr is to see what are the alerts which occur most either by the alert volume or by the repeat count (the screenshot below is from the Service Manager dashboard customized for OpsMgr). Using the graph on the left it’s easy to identify that the…
Read the original post here. This post was contributed by Daniel Oxley, a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services UK As some of our regular readers will have seen, I released version 2.0 of the MDT Debugger a short time ago. This version 2.1 is just a minor update with the following changes/improvements: Fixed a bug…
I was humbled this week to receive the MVCC recognition this week. I’m just happy to be able to give back the wonderful myITforum community. It’s a fantastic resource for getting quick answers and just all around a great bunch of folks! They were there for me when I was first starting out, and I’m…
In some recent posts I have provided some SQL scripts which I have been using to display Operations Manager data in various dashboards and gadgets. The problem with these solutions is that you need the SQL queries to populate the dashboards and gadgets but there aren’t many of them provided yet in the community. As…
The Office 365 team just released the beta version of the Deployment Readiness Tool. This is designed to scan your AD, Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint environments to determine if you are “ready” for Office 365 and if you are not, give you guidance on steps to remediate issues. You can download the tool from HERE…
In much less time than it is taking me to paste the screenshots here, you can set up custom retention for your published documents. In my example, I already have a “Publish Date” column in my document library and a “Review” workflow configured. What I want is to have an annual reminder sent to a…
As I’m studying for the SharePoint 2010 IT Pro exams (70-667 and 70-668), I’m looking for articles that will help me "convert" my thinking from SharePoint 2007 to 2010. One such article compares the features, functionality and architecture of SharePoint 2007 with SharePoint 2010. The author, Richard Harbridge, pulled together a great deal of detailed information…
This one seems to be the opposite of what I would expect. As SharePoint Administrators, we’ve all advised our users not to use "unsupported" browsers like FireFox. But I ran across an issue today where someone had been using FireFox to open the company’s intranet site for several months because when they tried to open…
This blog entry will attempt to summarize all knowledge which is currently publicly available on what is coming in System Center Operations Manager 2012. This is a daunting task as there are a whole lot of potential sources of knowledge out there on the topic – the point is to be able to provide what…
Ever since we set up a test SharePoint 2010 server my copies of Office 2010 would prompt me for credentials to the test farm (even if I didn’t have anything open from that farm). It would happen in every office application and usually a couple or three times a day (which if you have…
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