We had another great meeting of the Office 365 International User Group yesterday. While it was a bit shorter than most of the meetings, that being my fault as I was a bit busy and unable to line up a presenter, it did have a bunch of cross talk and discussion. I started out the…
Are you using Office 365 and want to know how it is functioning? There are now a variety of options available to provide this information, some of which use Operations Manager as the framework and others which do not. This blog post will review the following options which are available to keep up to date…
On September 24th from 2-4 pm in Dallas I will be teaming up with Savision to present "Cloud Management with System Center 2012". The focus of this presentation will be on how you can use System Center to provide to monitor your environment even when it is a combination of on-prem and running in Azure.…
Today I finally was able to setup a custom theme for my Office 365 Navigation Toolbar! It is very easy to do this, log into your Office 365 tenant as a global admin. In the upper right had corner under your picture you should see your company name, in my case it is ‘Office 365…
This may have been out there for a long time, but I just dug into it and it is pretty useful. If you are an author who is published on Amazon, you can create your own author page. The page lets you add a biography and picture and it lets you link your books to…
The September meeting of the Office 365 International User Group Meeting will be help on Monday, September 22nd at 1pm Mountain Time. Click on the link below to add this to your calendar, also would love to have you register on the meetup.com site for the group as well, http://www.meetup.com/Office365IUG/
I received the email below and it’s pretty important. Starting in 2015 if you want to take a Microsoft Certification Path (MCP) or Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) exam you won’t be able to use Prometric. You’ll have to use Pearson VUE. For Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exams it will still be Certiport. …
I recently blogged ways to find management packs for Operations Manager but one topic I did not cover was where to find community management packs which was pointed out to me just recently. The System Center Central crew have provided a single page with all of the community management packs listed together (and searchable) which…
Some time ago Anders wrote a great blog post (http://contoso.se/blog/?p=2423) on how to move your Orchestrator database. However, with the release of System Center 2012 Orchestrator, some of this information has changed. This post is an updated version for the Orchestrator 2012 installations. Stop all running runbooks. You can find a quick list of…
In Operations Manager, it is common to send alerts which a computer’s heartbeat has failed (Health Service Heartbeat Failure) to the server owner. It’s important to alert on heartbeat failures as they indicate an issue with agent’s ability to communicate with Operations Manager. This condition can occur due to a shutdown of the server…
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