October 15 2011 12:15 PM

BlastFromThePast: Consulting in Far-Far North Texas

I wrote this in about 10 years ago. I ran across it again recently and had to put it out there just for the fun of it. As background, I live in North Dallas and at this point in time I was commuting to just short of the Oklahoma border (about an hour nor...

October 14 2011 3:28 PM

Video & Slides for the “Top 5 Reasons to Migrate to SCOM 2012” Webinar

Savision has provided a recording of the webinar is now available on the Savision website (available here). Presentation Slides are also available if you email either your Savision account executive, or sales@savision.com.

October 12 2011 12:03 PM

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM) challenges moving a VM

In my lab environment I had installed SCVMM 2012 and had migrated my hosts from a previous SCVMM 2008 R2 configuration. When I attempted to move a virtual between hosts I received an error when trying to move the virtual that it was unable to migrate mac...

October 11 2011 3:45 PM

OpsMgr 2012, Savision & Dashboards

I just wrapped up and really enjoyed a webinar called Top 5 Reasons to Migrate to SCOM 2012. I worked with the folks at Savision on this to show what is new in OpsMgr 2012 and thoughts on how Savision will integrate when OpsMgr 2012 is released. The high...

October 08 2011 6:38 PM

What would I do differently if I was deploying OpsMgr in a new environment?

I had an interesting discussion with a client this week where we were able to discuss best practices ideas before deploying OpsMgr. Quite often now I work with clients who have already deployed OpsMgr and we are updating their environment. This discussio...

October 05 2011 4:08 PM

Where to get the Integration Packs for System Center Orchestrator 2012 Beta?

I’ve downloaded and installed the beta for System Center Orchestrator – but there are no integration packs. Where do I get these from? Original Opalis IP’s: Download the full Opalis 6.3 with 6.2.2 package (for customers with qualifying SMSE,SMSD, CMS or...

October 04 2011 1:36 PM

New functionality in the Windows Server Core OS MP version 6.0.6957.0

Kevin Holman has already written up on this MP at http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/09/30/opsmgr-new-base-os-mp-6-0-6956-0-adds-cluster-shared-volume-monitoring-bpa-and-many-changes.aspx but I wanted to throw in my 2 cents on this topic...

October 03 2011 10:03 AM

Want to know what’s coming to OpsMgr (SCOM) 2012? Check this out

On October 11th at 2 PM eastern, I will be presenting with Savision on the Top 5 Reasons to Migrate to SCOM 2012. If you want to know what’s coming to OpsMgr 2012 and what the reasons are to migrate this session if for you. Registration is available at:...

September 30 2011 6:37 AM

OperationsManager and OperationsManagerDW Database Information

I’ve been asked several times recently the same question about what we know about the layout of the OperationsManager and OperationsManagerDW databases. The links below summarize what I have been able to find (if you know of others please reply to this b...

September 29 2011 8:48 AM

So I accidentally put my RMS into maintenance mode… What do I do now?

Just in case you haven’t already heard this – Do NOT put an OpsMgr Management Server or Root Management Server (RMS) into maintenance mode. It’s not supported, it’s ugly, and it may cause major problems in your OpsMgr environment. Microsoft realizes that...