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Simon, We typically look at the blackberry first then go straight to the console. My boss is also in meetings a lot and wants to just glance at the BB and see what the server is and the alert summary. So I am thinking of changing the alerts to be more

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Thanks. So I can change our pager subscrition to look more like what you suggested? Also is Source computer name? My boss would like that in the subject.

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Do you have any examples on how to make Alerts Blackberry friendly? Aside from tuning down to email for non critical alerts and a pages for critical ones does anyone have examples / walk through on pager friendly alerts? here is a list of some att

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This may not be the best practice buy here is what I did. My test and prod databases live on a common very beefy production sql server as well as reporting services. We simply wanted to keep costs SQL down. I use a gateway for my test environment to

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I am looking at <350 in each environment. Signifigantly less in test.

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By the way if you guys are ever in Texas I have a starbucks gift cards waiting for you LOL. Ok I better clarify. This is @ Stefan, Simon, and Tommy. I can't afford to buy Starbucks for the whole forum :P

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I limit the views and alerts to the groups they pertain to. I then assign servers to those groups so authors of groups can change thresholds for their silo. I want to say the state view was broken when I dynamically added servers by name. The fix was dyna

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Cameron helped me figure out how to add computers dynamically to groups with a registry key and custom attribute. Is there a way to discover the health service in a similar way? Would I be missing anything if not?

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How can I use common reporting for my test and production enviornments? I have two seperate databases for test and production. Hoowever I only setup reporting in production.

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I am thinking I will start with 70-400 and take it from there. I may wait for the MCITP for system center or just tackle the Sever or Enterprise Admin track. I am hoping this will teach me more about opsman as well. Or prove up what I know. Thanks

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Is anyone getting working on this cert or do you already have it? M$ is offering free retakes until June if you sign up for a voucher. So I am considering the cert and possibly MCITP as well. Do you think it is valuable of should I skip it? http://ww

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Is there a tool or method to do this? I have two seperate databases for each environment. Any suggestions?

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Thanks guys! Maybe an RFC to Microsoft will allow for two data sources.

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Ok initial thoughts. As obvious as it may sound you can make pages within Visio and link them together. They look a lot like tabs in excel. Once you export them to a web page you can make them searchable which is cool as Share Point does not seem to sea

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We face of challenge of various processes, app pools and services needing to be bounced daily. I would like to script the AgentMM tool below with PSexec during our outages. However the scary use at your own risk disclaimer jumps out at me. Have you gur

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A collage recently asked me to tally up a list of what sizing tools I used for my SCOM environment. I thought this might be a good opportunity to discuss what tools we all use/used for sizing(official and unofficial). Here is my list. Feel free to add y

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Stefan, I have a good feeling about this. I will report back if/when it solves the problem.