QuickTricks: Getting the URL for a Savision Live Map (#SCOM)
On a NOC view it is preferable to have a specific Live Map display instead of the full Live Maps…
Using #ConfigMgr to deploy OpsMgr CU4 updates to manually installed agents (#SCOM)
Kevin Holman provides a great article on how to upgrade OpsMgr to CU4 which is available at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/02/01/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu4-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx One item…
A SharePoint 2010 Farm Primer
As anyone who works with SharePoint for a while knows, there is a sort of standard progression of farm architecture. …
USMT 4.0, Hardlink and Bitlocker in SCCM OSD
Michael Petersen has a really nice post on USMT 4, Hardlink and Bitlocker over on his blog. Read his full…
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MMS 2011: Operations Manager Evolution-Using the Service Manager Dashboard to display Operations Manager Dashboards in #SharePoint (#SCOM)
For those OpsMgr administrators out there this won’t be a surprise – Operations Manager has no prebuilt dashboard product. Unlike…
Metric Misuse – Quality Assurance Metrics Gone Awry
I was reading through some posts from Bob Sutton, one of my favorite management gurus, and I ran across a…
QuickTricks: Where does the operations manager console store its cache? (#SCOM)
The file the OpsMgr console is using as it’s cache is called momcache.mdb. It is stored in a user specific…
Overview of Extending Active Directory Schema for System Center Configuration Manager
My colleague Chris Nackers recently posted an excellent Step by Step Guide for Extending Active Directory Schema for System…
Outlook 2010 Reminders window stuck “Always On Top”
Normally the Reminders window is not set as a top-most window, and it goes to the background when other…