Normally I would not ask this question, but a recent comment on Amazon brought this question to mind and it just won’t leave until I finish writing this. I am looking for feedback and your thoughts on the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed book. We have had two comments on the book so…
This post is provided as-is, use at your own risk. My latest lab is on Server 2008 R2 and I was having a weird issue with the MP not installing. Even though I had configured WebDav correctly as per the TechNet article here, however my mpsetup.log was still giving me errors about WebDav not being…
As part of the SystemCenterCentral management pack contest (details available here), there are now 10 different management packs which have already been submitted which perform a variety of functions. Currently these include: Maintenance Mode History Report Management pack HP EVA Management Pack V2 Top Processes Identifier Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 and Essentials 2010…
This is the next post in a series describing how the Portfolio Analysis pieces of Project Server 2010 work under the hood. This post will discuss how portfolios are impacted by forcing in or out specific projects. I wrote this post as part of an exercise to make sure that I understand what’s going on…
Scenario: Say you have been using Public Folders in Exchange to share contacts among users or you have a master contacts database somewhere. If you wanted to create these contacts in AD/Exchange with the least amount of effort, what would you do? Ok…so this scenario doesn’t really come up that often. Hopefully you can apply…
Here is the next post in my series describing how the Portfolio Analysis module works in Project Server. I wrote this post as part of an exercise to make sure that I understand what’s going in Project Server – as well as making an initial attempt to lay the pieces out in a way that…
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DISCLAIMER: (Just to make sure this is clear, I am adding this disclaimer to the posting.) The worksheet referenced below is not a competing product to Project Server 2010, and does not contain references to any proprietary code. It was developed based on publicly available information as an Excel mock up of the server-side portfolio…
UPDATE: Note that this post is based on Exchange 2010 RTM. Guidance has been changed slightly for SP1. Please see the wiki post HERE. In one of my recent Exchange 2010 deployments at a client, the design was a highly available 3-node Exchange environment with all roles (MB, CAS, HUB) installed on each server. So…
In my previous post, I gave an example of how Pairwise Analysis works, and presented a conceptual model in Excel of the driver and project prioritization engine within Microsoft Project Server 2010. That model worked well with simple driver prioritization scenarios, but seemed to display a wide variance with Project Server calculations in more complex…
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