As we ramp up for MMS, I want to test mobile blogging from my tablet and mobile devices(writing this post on my tablet with Blogsy). I’ll be speaking again this year (6th year on stage) and working in various capacities → 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 am in the process of updating the Community Management Pack Catalog Cheat Sheet to reflect version compatibility for those packs already tested. You will find a couple of new management packs and a “works on:” note under packs I → Continue Reading.

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 → Continue Reading.

Just wanted to spread the word that Symantec has released a management pack for Operations Manager 2007 / 2012. This is great news given the patchy availability of MPs for Backup Exec since Symantec on boarded this product through acquisition. → Continue Reading.

Here’s a great script I just tried out from community member Bernie Pannone.  Works just as I’d hoped to restart the OpsMgr agent on an array of servers, in this case on all servers in the T:\ScomPsScripts\Servers.txt Nice work Bernie! → Continue Reading.

Recently a user in the SCC OpsMgr community forums wanted to monitor for the existence of a file. With many similar file system related scripts (file and folder size, count, age, etc.) but no exact match, I put together a → Continue Reading.

Hey all, I updated the SCC Community Management Pack Catalog Cheat Sheet with the new community-developed WIndows 8 Beta MP. The URL to the Cheat Sheet is easy to remember: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/mps Let me know if there are any community-developed MPs → Continue Reading.

Recently a user in the SCC OpsMgr community forums wanted to monitor for the existence of a file. With many similar file system related scripts (file and folder size, count, age, etc.) but no exact match, I put together a → Continue Reading.

Since I started working with Operations Manager 2007 and Distributed Applications (DA) I’ve run across situations where when I was creating a diagram view (usually for a DA) if I had more than eight objects at a layer it would → Continue Reading.