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.

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.  

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.

I have put together a quick and dirty powershell script that will convert all HEX values from an SNMP Walk in SCOM 2012 .  It can be optimized, but as is, it runs pretty fast and clean. If you want → Continue Reading.

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.

I’ve deployed the latest version of Windows Server OS MP without any issues. It was quite easy so I will just share my experience for those who are interested. 1. Install the new version of the MP. Tip 1: I → Continue Reading.