This book provides a look at considerations, processes and tools for migrating applications to Azure. Great for IT pros who want to know a bit more about what is involved in migrating on premise applications to Windows Azure. Download for free at http://...

Good news, the new SCOM 2012 tools have been released! The Operations Manager product group has done a GREAT job on some of the new Authoring Tools and they released them in line with the release of the product. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/c...

As part of the private cloud in the real world (PCITRW), I wanted to quickly share a some tips for building out and testing service templates in Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (VMM) in which you are deploying multiple applications. The application deployme...

As we were jogging through a canyon in Red Rock today, I realized I forgot to mention this additional bit of conference swag. Courtesy of System Center Central and the Inside MMS Podcast, the first 500 people that come past the Infront Consulting booth w...

I just finalized on planning to moderate two sessions on “New to Microsoft System Center 2012” at MMS 2012. With all of the new features coming to the System Center 2012 stack these should be great discussions! Abstract: “The long-awaited System Center 2...

I wanted to take a minute to let you know a bit about what we have planned for MMS 2012… whether you are attending or not. Tablet-a-Day Giveaway First, as a way of thanking our great community supporters and our rock star founding sponsors Quest and Veea...

I recently received a good question regarding APM monitoring. In a clean environment with multiple demo applications installed…all looked about as expected. However, after running the wizard to enable APM monitoring for DinnerNow and StockTrader (two pop...

Someone asked me offline how to monitor various aspects of files and folders without going to the depth and complexity of the File System Management Pack. Below are several sample scripts for a two-state monitor to get you started monitor various aspects...

If so, consider using the following hash tags to have your content followed by the greater System Center community at large. Component Hashtag System Center all up or broad awareness (should be included in every tweet related to SC) #sysctr These are onl...

This is a great look into how MS implements a System Center 2012 technology Description Microsoft IT uses the Operations Manager component of System Center 2012 to provide the monitoring of their datacenter, to delivering flexible and cost effective ente...