Please beware when upgrading from another Enterprise plan to E5. Microsoft is currently experiencing an issue. I signed up for an E5 trial earlier this week in my personal tenant. In trying to update my E1 license to an E5 everything appeared to work, but my Exchange services are stuck in a perpetual Setting up……
Welcome this week’s edition of having fun with Operations Manager and Windows Media Center. In the first part of this series we discussed why it is beneficial to create your own class structure. In the second part of this series we discussed a wizard driven method to create your own class structure and discovery. In…
One of the more interesting features of the new Windows Server 2016 release which has been show as of TP4 is Nano. Nano provides a 93% smaller VHD size, 92% fewer critical bulletins, 80% fewer reboots and installs as less than 500 MB in size (for details see http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/what-nano-server). As a result Nano boots extremely…
Recently Microsoft added the ability to gather near real time performance information through OMS (for details look here). Tao dissected how this worked on this blog post here including which management pack is used (Microsoft.IntelligencePack.LogManagement.Collection), the rules which exist in the MP that gather data (shown below from my environment), and the underlying XML which…
One of the challenges in Operations Manager is providing an effective way to visualize information which does not require a significant amount of overhead from the Operations Manager administrator to implement or maintain. A common example of this is a free disk space dashboard or report. There are a variety of methods currently available to…
It looks like Cyber Monday has another great deal for you, Microsoft today announced General Availability of Dynamics CRM 2016. Dynamics CRM 2016 Also remember we have the last two of our What’s new in Dynamics 2016 Webinars coming up soon. What’s new with Social on 12/10/15 at 1:00 PM Est. and What’s new with…
This post is part of a series on Service Manager PowerShell. Be sure to check out the Overview Page for all posts in this series. Now that we have covered creating and editing items using the Service Manager PowerShell cmdlets, I would like to touch on one of the best uses of this, which is…
Clint Wyckoff and I are teaming up with Jose Mendoza and Shawn Lieu for “Veeam, Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Are Better Together” on December 2nd (Wednesday) at 11:00 am (UTC -06:00). I am excited for this opportunity and looking forward to presenting with Clint especially as he and I have also been developing a…
I recently visited a local electronics store to purchase a new television. The experience was “okay” but what really impressed me were my continued and positive interactions with the 3rd party that was responsible for delivery of our new television. Starting with a phone call confirming the delivery date (from a real, live person -…
If I posed the question to the readers of this blog I bet I could get a dozen or more different approaches that we could use to visualize free disk information in Operations Manager either as out-of-the-box functionality or using 3rd party solutions (for those who are interested I will be following up with a…
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