The Newsgroups Are Dead. Long Live the Newsgroups.
Well, we knew it was coming, but at long last the Microsoft Project newsgroups will be gone in the nearish…
OpsMgr – SQL Server MP, SQL 2008 & Free Space Counters
Recently, we ran into a situation where I wanted to determine how much free space was available on both the…
How do I schedule automatic discovery and client installation for Operations Manager?
The best practice approach to this situation is to use Active Directory integration with Operations Manager, and to couple that…
On Release Eve, a Look Back
Feeling a bit nostalgic as of late. Perhaps it was seeing Dan Aykroyd grand marshalling a parade over the weekend. …
Software Update Management and Group Policy for ConfigMgr (what else?)
There is definitely a lot of confusion about how Group Policies interact with, control, and affect Software Update Management…
SharePoint 2010 on a Win7 Box – The journey continues
Late last year (after the beta 2 bits came out, I attempted to install SPS2010 onto a Win7 box. I…
Optimizing Drilling Schedules with Microsoft Project Server 2010 (Part 3) – Creating the Visio File
This is part three of a series on optimizing drilling schedules in Microsoft Office Project Server 2010 and surfacing the…
OpsMgr: How do I determine what rules and monitors apply to a system?
Microsoft provides a tool which provides functionality which may meet the requirements called the effective configuration viewer (available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a9db4dca-6716-478d-89b9-42f27ebc76a8&DisplayLang=en).…
A Plea to the Technical Community
I’m a geek – and I get it. It’s not reasonable to expect that people will carry with books on…
OpsMgr: Distributed Applications with too many second level items / DA grouped by Critical, Warning and Healthy
During a Q&A session at MMS 2010 there was a question raised related to Distributed Applications (DA’s) and limits within…