In the previous blog posts we discussed how to gather custom performance counters and examples of how to create custom reports for free disk space and processor utilization. In this blog entry we will use the performance counters created in the first part of the series and the concepts used to create other custom reports…
In the previous blog posts we have discussed how to gather our own custom performance counters, and how to create a simple report for free disk space. Another commonly asked request is how to create a report which shows processor utilization for a group of servers (such as a group of web servers in a…
On July 19th, 2010 Microsoft released Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Beta or as I like to say say FEP. This is a drastic change from the current Microsoft Forefront Client Security (FCS) that is in production. FCS used a special version of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM). MOM in FCS was used for the…
A common misunderstanding is that a business analyst is a “jack of all trades,” implying they are generalists rather than specialists, and that their skills may represent a breadth of disciplines but not depth. The reality is that both are an oversimplification of the role a business analyst may play and an incorrect definition of…
In the first part of this series we discussed how to gather custom performance counters in OpsMgr (which we will later use in a custom report). In this part we will discuss the steps required to create a simple free disk space report as this is one of the top three cases I am…
I know this is a little off topic but it is work related, interesting, and good to know. We’ve all seen those pizza flyers that are slid under your door when you’re staying at a hotel right? I’ve been staying at a hotel in San Antonio for the past two weeks and I’ve seen my…
This is the first blog post in a six part series which is designed to show the steps required throughout the process – from gathering your own performance counters, to designing simple custom reports to making them available in an environment. I decided to write this process up in detail with examples to show that…
Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Beta was released recently along with Microsoft Security Essentials Beta. I plan on working with FEP (that’s what I’m calling it) soon but until then I wanted to get my hands dirty with MSE on my personal netbook. I’ll be installing MSE Beta today and showing you how simple and…
I have seen this situation/question come up over and over again so I decided to write a blog post on it. The question: “How do I configure Exchange to receive email from the Internet or from a MFP scanner? You might think this is pretty straight forward, but I have seen this misconfigured over and…
After creating several service monitors and process monitors, we determined that due to how we were prioritizing alerts we wanted to change the default configuration of the service and process monitors from Critical/Medium to Critical/High. The goal was to do this for specific service and process monitors but not all of them. These settings are…
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