Category Archives: Management
Review of Infront’s Orchestrator Runbook MP
I was working on a project where Orchestrator 2012 SP1 plays a big part in linking and automating the various parts of the solution which includes Service Manager, Operations Manager, BMC and Orion as well as custom databases. Therefore it was essential that Orchestrator is properly monitored. While Microsoft produce a MP for Orchestrator it …
3 New System Center RTMs
As expected there have been announcements at this years MMS. The System Center team try and focus their release efforts around this event. So we have System Center Data Protection (DPM) 2010 – http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/data-protection-manager.aspx and System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) – http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/essentials.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenteressentials/archive/2010/04/19/sc-essentials-2010-is-released-to-manufacturing.aspx Info on both here – http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2010/04/19/the-right-tools-for-the-job-sce-2010-dpm-2010.aspx The biggie that ties them …
Silect MP Studio v4.1
Silect have just released their latest version of MP Studio. We’re pleased to announce the availability of our latest release of MP Studio available for upgrade now for all MP Studio customers currently on maintenance. MP Studio v4.1 has now added additional capabilities to help you further decrease complexity, speed implementation, eliminate risk and increase …
SCCM R3
My old ex colleague and buddy Jeff Wettlaufer, announce that System Center Configuration Manager will be having an R3 release. http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/09/08/announcing-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-r3.aspx R3? That is a new one on me. I wonder how the marketing guys came up with that one? And will we see it spread to other products? Anyone for Windows 2008 R3 and …
MMS DVD
My DVD finally arrived today so I can catch up with all the sessions that I missed. The MMS was 27th April to 1st May so it has taken 11 weeks. Soon to be time for the next MMS!
32 v 64 Bit Programs
Reading Aidan Finn’s post about having problems with agents as he used the 32 bit MOMCertImport.exe tool on a 64 bit server reminded me of a post I wanted to do. I had a similar problem in that the server build team wanted to build the servers with the OpsMgr agent which was fine. But …
SolarWinds free Exchange Monitor
Saw this at 4Sysopshttp://4sysops.com/archives/solarwinds-exchange-monitor/ Nothing to do with SCOM but it does provide monitoring. Reminds me of Quest Spotlight. By the Quest do some free tools including Spotlight for Windows – http://www.quest.com/free-tools/. SolarWinds Exchange Monitor is small and neat but it can only point to one server at a time and it does not remember …
MMS 208 Keynotes
The keynote videos from Bob Muglia and Brad Anderson are available to watch at:Silverlight – http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/default.mspx WMV File – http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/mgmtsummit/materials.mspx Bob Muglia Keynote – April 29, 2008Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft Corp., outlined the next phase in the company’s strategy to enable organizations to achieve more dynamic …
MMS Announcement Predictions
An interesting article that Techlog highlights mentions that Microsoft should buy companies to fill in the gaps in their heterogeneous monitoring to compete with the Big 4 (Tivoli, CA, HP and BMC). The article also mentions that perhaps there may be announcements at MMS. The trouble buying companies is integrating them. And there is the …
Windows Performance Tools Kit
This has now been updated for the Windows 2008 SDK. It is quite amazing how much info it will gather. I particularly like the ability to graph the CPU by process or thread. Useful in your bag of tools if you need to do some analysis on a server where you know there are performance …
Ian Blyth - System Center Technologies 