I’m moving away from this blog as I don’t think the LazyIndustries title does wonders for my image Therefore, I’ve started a new tech blog over at opsm.gr. I will be keeping the LazyIndustries URL alive and the existing posts, however I won’t be making any updates.
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I am pleased to announce the release of Episode 1 of the 1E System Center Podcast.
In this episode, Andy Dominey (OpsMgr Practice Lead and MVP) and I chat with Kevin Muldoon and Barry Shilmover from the OpsMgr Product team about 2 key new features of OpsMgr R2. Kevin discusses the new Interop Connector, how [...]
The strength of any great monitoring solution is not just in its ability to report issues and the current state of servers and applications (there are a plethora of good monitoring tools that can do this), but in its ability to resolve problems automatically when they arise.
Microsoft have released a new community based System Center Program called the System Center Influencers Program. Giving IT pros technical training content, people connections, and general guidance they need to enhance their credibility and impact in the community.
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Dell have finally released a new version of their Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager (Version 3.1.1, A00). A few Fixes and Enhancements over the previous version (as you would expect). I really hope Dell have spent time improving the performance and reliability issues that plagued previous versions of their MP.
The guys over at SystemCenterForum have a great series on virtualising the various OpsMgr roles and components. Definitely worth a read if you are planning on going virtual with your OpsMgr environment.
A client contacted me today with an unusual problem. They reported that when they attempted to resolve an alert in the Active Alerts view, they kept getting and error that the resolution state was out of sync. [Read more...]
My colleague and OpsMgr MVP Andy Dominey has released a whitepaper entitled “Deploying OpsMgr in Highly Available and Distributed Enterprise Environments”. Andy has extensive experience in this area and has documented his thoughts and recommendations on the subject.
You can find out more about the whitepaper and get a copy for yourself at Andy’s blog.
Well, I finally got around to sitting my OpsMgr exam today, and passed with a score of 980. I must admit that I was expecting to pass but even I was surprised with my score. Unfortunately they couldn’t tell me which question (or questions) I got wrong.
I would like to point out that those preparing [...]
There is a known issue with version 6.0.6441.0 of the SQL Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager which has been resolved by the release of an updated MP (build 6.0.6460.0).
Read more about this issue on the Product Team blog.
