PerformancePoint Monitoring breaks WSS?!
Before anyone jumps off a bridge, it is not as bad as the headline sounds; stay calm, step down…
Five Things You Should Know About Server Virtualization
Server virtualization is a hot topic these days (even if you haven’t heard of it before). While IT professionals have…
QuickTricks: OpsMgr Service Names
There are new service names in the R2 version of OpsMgr. The following is the mapping of the new R2…
The Systems Administrator has set policies to prevent WEBDAV installation
Server 2008 – The Systems Administrator has set policies to prevent this installation Today I was onsite at a client…
QuickTricks: Where are the agent install logs?
While doing a test deployment on the upcoming OpsMgr R2 release I was debugging why some of my agents were…
Extending the Data Profiling Task
SQL Server 2008 RTM has been out a while now and yet, I am just now making my way to…
QuickTricks: Changing the URL for Alerts in OpsMgr
The Alert view link which is sent in the email notifications provides a link to the alert in the web…
Kanban and lean methods for software development
A brilliant manager named David Anderson from Corbis hasa presentation up on InfoQ about his work in helping single project…
Create a Linked Server to an Oracle DB from Server 2008 and SQL 2008
We recently needed to create a linked server from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to an Oracle 9.0.1 database on a…
OpsMgr 2007, Virtual Gateway, Nworks MP
I ran into a situation where I could not get a gateway server to approve via the Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.GatewayApprovalTool.exe. It was…