After yesterday’s release of Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack I’ve managed to install it in a development environment. Here are the steps I’ve went trough: 1. Start installation and Accept License Agreement: 2. Choose installation location: 3. Import the installed → Continue Reading.

I had this issue recently in two separate environments where properties for some SQL databases were not discovered by SQL Server Management Pack as you can see below: Also collecting performance data for free space of the databases was returning → Continue Reading.

Exchange 2012 Management Pack was just released by Microsoft. It seems that this is completely new management pack so goodbye to the correlation engine . I’ve never liked that this management pack was some kind of different from all other → Continue Reading.

Microsoft and Amazon have jointly released a new SCOM management pack for AWS.   http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/aws-management-pack-for-microsoft-system-center.html https://aws.amazon.com/windows/system-center/ “By using the AWS Management Pack with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, you can view and monitor your on-premises and AWS resources together in a single console. The → Continue Reading.

As part of preparing for the upcoming MVP pro series of webcasts, I am working on an updated version of Operations Manager Evolution. The goal of the Operations Manager Evolution presentation series is to provide ways to take your Operations → Continue Reading.

Came across the following link on Tim McFadden’s blog. This is an amazing resourse that can help you master the art of OpsManager 2012 Dashboards. http://www.scom2k7.com/dashboards-in-scom-2012/   This is a great resource! Thank you Tim McFadden.  

With all of the new features and terminology in System Center 2012 SP1 and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, have you ever felt as though you are drowning in a sea of acronyms? I thought it would be nice to provide → Continue Reading.

One of my initial interests when I started blogging was using performance testing to determine optimal configurations (one of my first posts discussed performance of SCSI versus IDE disk configurations in Virtual Server 2005). I thought recently that it would → Continue Reading.

Not so long ago I’ve wrote a script that can download all SCOM Management Packs released by Microsoft. Unfortunately Microsoft has decided to change the interface of their download pages and didn’t asked me for approval . Because of that → Continue Reading.

Here is a documentation omission I discovered (and reported) recently when I encountered difficulties getting the Linux client to function as expected in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1. The Problem I installed the Linux client on a Suse (SLES) → Continue Reading.