May 06 2011 12:05 AM

BPOS ‘There was an error while preparing your application dashboard. Please try again later’

As a Microsoft Online customer and a partner that sells, installs and supports MS Online services, it’s always a pain to run into problems with hosted services, particularly when you are a user of the service yourself. This week was one of those weeks an...

April 21 2011 11:07 AM

Finding Management Packs

Finding Microsoft Management Packs is from time to time increasingly frustrating. Even google can’t keep up with the numerous changes that Microsoft has made in the last 24 months around where they are going to be posting MPs. If you are struggling to fi...

March 20 2011 5:36 PM

MMS Tips for Newbies

MMS is a great event. IMO, it’s the best Microsoft event of the year (next to the MVP summit) but it can be daunting and lonely if you are new to the community and don’t know anyone upon arrival. I have been coming to MMS now since 1994 and have been a s...

March 20 2011 2:44 PM

System Center For Managers, Directors and CIOs

March 20, 2011 I am going to be starting a new blog series titled ‘System Center for Managers, Directors and CIOs’. The reason for this blog series is based on customer feedback. I am constantly amazed at the number of customers that I speak with where t...

March 19 2011 12:25 AM

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March 18 2011 10:14 PM

Struggling with Operations Manager… come out and get your questions answered at OB03 BOF: Ops Mgr Configuration Questions…. Answered

I am really looking forward to meeting old friends, colleagues, fellow MVPs, Microsoft Product Teams and customers at MMS this week. Infront Consulting Group has some great global coverage this year at the event. We have System Center experts from all ov...

March 18 2011 12:35 PM

They Just Don’t Get It…

Microsoft, as large as they are and as experienced as they are must have fired all of their user acceptance testing resources. Every time Microsoft makes a change to their ‘private’ web sites, it always takes multiple attempts and numerous, frustrating p...

February 24 2011 2:06 AM

Monitoring SQL with SCOM

If you are looking for a couple of great articles on how to monitor SQL with SCOM, check out these two great articles: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/merrill_aldrich/archive/2011/02/23/scom-90-days-in-ii-noise.aspx http://sqlblog.com/blogs/merrill_aldrich/arch...

February 18 2011 12:32 AM

SCOMpercentageCPUTimeCounter.vbs SWbemRefresher: Invalid class alerts in SCOM

Within SCOM, you might find that you receive Warning alerts SCOMpercentageCPUTimeCounter.vbs(125, 5) SWbemRefresher: Invalid class. To troubleshoot this, open Wbemtest on the server having issues and run the following queries against root\cimv2. SELECT *...

February 14 2011 9:16 AM

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