For those of you that are like me and their favorite OOTB page layout was the “Blank Web Part” page in previous versions of SharePoint, you should enjoy this post. In an effort to make SharePoint HTML 5 compliant the page layouts needed to be re-worked to use <div> tags instead of html tables. …
I was working with a client recently who needed a quick report to provide free disk space information for all of their Unix/Linux systems. I ran across this link and was really impressed with the report that they had put together as it provided information for the Unix/Linux drives and a very readable format: http://www.scomgod.com/?p=42.…
At TechEd 2014 we received a lot of information on the newly available dashboards in OpsMgr 2012 R2 UR2. As part of my presentation Brian Wren authored an MP which when an alert was highlighted would look it up in Bing (among other things). For background, the ReSearch This management pack was designed to provide…
If you are configured with a Hybrid Exchange Configuration this pertains to you! Microsoft recently released an Office 365 Message Center Alert that states you need to run a command on your Federation Trust due to changes Microsoft made to the Online Organization ID Certificates. This update needs to be made by September 23rd! The…
A while back I wrote an introduction article on how System Center Advisor works when it is integrated with Operations Manager. Doing some more work with this recently I found a couple of additional tricks to be aware of when using Advisor in Operations Manager. This article will cover three debugging topics: Where does Advisor…
Welcome to Part 8 on how to do crazy stuff for Operations Manager using SQL, XML and PowerShell. In the next part of this blog series we will look into where product knowledge is stored in Operations Manager. In Part 1 we covered places where Operations Manager could store data and used unique search stings…
The first meeting of the Phoenix Office 365 User Group was a huge success! I was hoping for 5 or so people to show up, given that it was the first meeting, but we ended up with a total of 9 attendees! Thanks again to those of you that were able to make it…
Think back to the last time you released to your customers. There was probably a brief feeling of satisfaction, hopefully a validation from the customer that you delivered what they wanted, and your team learned a thing or two about how effective they are at deploying and testing the changes that were delivered with the…
When a team decides to try reducing the time it takes for their ideas to get to their customers (cycle time), there are a few new technical investments that must be made. However, without business stakeholders supporting the changes in a SCRUM approach that delivers frequent releases, decisions and planning are driven by gut feel…
The August Office 365 International User Group meeting went great, even if I had to miss the second half due to some work requirements. I would like to thank Martina Grom (@Magrom) and Darrell Webster (@DarrellCWebster) for helping out and facilitating the second half of the meet. The meeting started out with a presentation by…
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