Microsoft Management Summit 2010: This year I was fortunate to attend the Microsoft Management Summit this year. For background, if you work in the System Center product line MMS is the public Microsoft must-go-to conference of the year. I have had the pleasure of going to MMS a few times in the past, but this…
Follow today’s Project Launch events here, and check out all the great content that just got unveiled here.
A friend of mine emailed me last week because he had to do an uninstallation of the management servers, and root management server (RMS) in an environment. He then re-installed the RMS and one of the management servers but the agents would not report to the new management servers. After debugging what he found was…
One of the cool new features of SharePoint 2010 is that now, when an error is thrown, instead of just getting a bland error screen and you having to pour through voluminous error logs looking for when it might have occurred, the use is given a correlation ID (a GUID of course) that they can…
Well, we knew it was coming, but at long last the Microsoft Project newsgroups will be gone in the nearish future, to be replaced by a whole selection of sleek, new feature-ridden Web-based forums. For more information, please check out Brian Smith’s post Newsgroups Are So Yesterday. Forums Are the Future. Just wait a second. …
Recently, we ran into a situation where I wanted to determine how much free space was available on both the OperationsManager and OperationsManagerDW databases over a period of time. When I went to find these counters in the Operations Console / Monitoring / Microsoft SQL Server / Databases there were no counters for these database…
The best practice approach to this situation is to use Active Directory integration with Operations Manager, and to couple that with a software distribution mechanism (and/or including the OpsMgr agent in the images for new systems). Details on this process are available at: http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!1034.entry. Pete and Raphael wrote an article about AD Integration for large environment…
Feeling a bit nostalgic as of late. Perhaps it was seeing Dan Aykroyd grand marshalling a parade over the weekend. More likely, it’s the Project 2010 release happening this week. For some reason, the event has made me a bit nostalgic for versions of old. I started poking around the Internet and found the following…
There is definitely a lot of confusion about how Group Policies interact with, control, and affect Software Update Management (SUM) on ConfigMgr clients. At the outset of this post (or series of posts), I don’t even know exactly what’s going to happen with some of the different settings and combinations that I’m going to…
Late last year (after the beta 2 bits came out, I attempted to install SPS2010 onto a Win7 box. I was struggling with not wanting to give up the power management features of Win7 (or Vista) and the fact that MS Virtualization only runs 32 bit hosts. Now, I could dual boot into Server 2K8R2…
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