Are you a green bar watcher?
I was talking to a friend the other day and mentioned that I have gotten used to looking down at the right hand corner of the console to watch the green bar as this means the screen I have selected is still loading. He laughed as he said he did [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Green Bar Watcher
April 29, 2007SCVMM Beta 2
April 25, 2007Beta 2 of System Center Virtual Machine Manager is now ready for download from Connect.
Major upgrades in this release:
·Completely new, easy-to-use and intuitive UI based on the System Center look-and-feel (same as System Center Operations Manager 2007, Service Desk and System Center Essentials)
·Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Conversions (Windows Server® 2000 or Windows Server 2003 are supported)
·Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) [...]
Really Fat Client
April 20, 2007Update 23rd April 2007. Apologies. It seems that I was wrong. A couple of people from Microsoft have pointed out in the comments that what I initally thought was a big download was just the agent created a local Jet database. I should have checked wih a network monitoring tool first. Obvioulsy too eager to blog [...]
Maintenance Mode
April 20, 2007One of the popular questions for 2005 was putting agents into maintenance mode and it is still popular with 2007.
From SystemCenterForum.org
“Neale has addressed the challenge of putting groups of agent-managed nodes into maintenance mode via a PowerShell script, which could easily be run as a scheduled task”
http://systemcenterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/CmdSchedMaint.zip
There are 2 scripts – one for agents and [...]
SCOM Performance and Scalability
April 19, 2007The newsgroups have an announcement that the “Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability White Paper” is released but only on Connect. I have asked why it is not on the main web sites as OM is an RTM product and not in beta any more. Also released on the Connect site is the updated SDK [...]
SCOM 2007 and AD
April 18, 2007Operations Manager 2007 uses AD a lot more than 2005. I have collected some links that may help. I have included the link to the AD MP as that is essential for setting up AD monitoring correctly but you need to know about overrides to configure the MP and if you have a large number of [...]
MP Catalog – Almost
April 12, 2007I went to the MP catalog to see if it was updated for 2007 and it does have the drop down for 2007. Unfortuantely it returns 0 results. Not even the managements packs that ship with the RTM code. Soon, soon.
MP Conversion
April 5, 2007Having installed the RTM version of SCOM in the system testing area and checked that the agents work happily with the MOM 2005 agents I wanted to install the same management packs that I have on MOM 2005 to see how the alerting compares.
I took a selection of the older MPs that do not yet [...]
SCOM 2007 Licensing and Prices
April 4, 2007I was just about to write a post saying that Microsoft did not mention licensing and prices at the MMS and there was nothing on the web site then I saw Stefan’s post (congratulations to Stefan on becoming an MVP) and now Microsoft has put up the information at http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/opsmgr/howtobuy/default.mspx.
The two areas I was particulary [...]
Next – MMS 2008
April 1, 2007MMS 2007 is over and I am now back home but they have told us the dates and location for next year so you can get it in your diary.
MMS 2008 will be in the Venetian at Las Vegas from April 28th to May 2nd. System Center Configuration Manage (aka sms v4), System Center Virtual Machine Manager, [...]
