SQL – Calculate Most Recent Monday, Last Sunday, or Last Monday
Using the DATEDIFF function allows you to easily calculate week days in SQL, because it both removes the time…
What is in the System Center Operations Manager Technical Preview? #SCOM #SYSCTR
If you are like me you were excited to see that Technical Previews are now available for Windows 10, Windows…
Recent updates to ReSearch This #Sysctr #SCOM
As a quick summary for what has been added recently related to ReSearch This (community resolutions to Operations Manager alerts),…
Enriching System Center Self-Service and Asset Mgmt with the Veeam 7 Management Pack #Veeam #SCSM #SysCtr
In the upcoming whitepaper entitled "Using Veeam solutions to augment System Center and Hyper-V" Pete Zerger and I discuss how…
QuickTricks: Replacing a Visio integrated diagram with the topology widget #OpsMgr #SYSCTR
One of the approaches which has been available to provide dashboard integration for Operations Manager utilizes Visio and SharePoint Enterprise…
Management Point Affinity (AllowedMPs) Compliance Setting in ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU3
In Cumulative Update 3 for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2, Microsoft introduced Management Point Affinity and Justin Chalfant had…
Summary from the Cloud Management with System Center presentation
Thank you to all of the attendees at the recent Cloud Management with System Center presentation in Dallas! As a…
What do we get from the Azure management pack about virtuals in IaaS?
During a recent presentation on Cloud Management with System Center several good questions were asked but one really caught my…
Modifying each user’s registry
A colleague of mine recently was working on a Windows image with a specific setting for Microsoft Office 2010. However,…
How to stop twitter from interrupting live presentations
Life is good, the presentation is going well. The audience is engaged in the discussion. I mention an interesting technical…