You’ve spent weeks or months on that project to instrument you datacenter and applications with Operations Manager, now is not the time to skimp on presenting all that health data. Savision Live Maps is a great tool for visually presenting the → Continue Reading.

MMS 2013 has seen some brilliant presentations from the consultants, MVPs and experts at Infront Consulting Group. Pete Zerger, Mickey Gousset, Raymond Chou and Alexandre Verkinderen all delivered some outstanding sessions and the evaluations and feedback have been very positive. → Continue Reading.

I’ve prepared a presentation on using dashboards for an internal Microsoft PFE event called GeekReady and thought I would share some key takeaways, one of those being using Bing Maps API and SET-SCOMLocation.   (p.s. we are always hiring engineers) Using PowerShell to → Continue Reading.

Special thanks to OpsMgr community guru Andreas Zuckerhut for contributing this awesome OpsMgr Command Shell script to eliminate a common challenge in large OpsMgr environments! Of all the functions made easier by the new resource pools feature in System Center → Continue Reading.

You must have seen the small watermark on the bottom right corner of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview desktop background. It says ” Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Evaluation copy. Build 8250 “. Though it is small, but still the desktop → Continue Reading.

If you ever wanted to monitor Windows services, but only during business hours, then this is the post for you.  I have put together an example MP that contains a new monitor type that includes a Schedule Filter so you → Continue Reading.

Recently, I had a requirement to discover a number of devices that existing on a Linux server, which got me thinking as previously I’ve only ever run a shell command that returns a status to determine whether an object is → Continue Reading.

Job Description: The Client Engineering team provides infrastructure and engineering support for the enterprise desktop management policies and practices; centralized software packaging services and alternative computing technologies with VDI, Thin Clients and Citrix. This Senior Application Packager position is responsible for → Continue Reading.

I can’t count the number of times that I have been frustrated that the telnet client isn’t part of the default install on Server 2008 R2 as it is a tool that makes it very easy to confirm whether or → Continue Reading.

I started looking into getting these files for my team, then I thought “too much work for for only these Turkeys to see…”  Hopefully this will be bullet proof enough that it will just work.. Included is a script and → Continue Reading.