January 17 2012 11:59 AM

Why I am no longer an Operations Manager MVP… but I am a System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP!

There was an interesting discussion today (Taming IT with the Microsoft Private Cloud) which shows the deeper level of integration occurring in the System Center space. The following is my “Summary for Geeks” from the meeting above: Packaging and Pricing...

January 11 2012 4:58 PM

What does the Root Management Server Emulator (RMSE) actually DO in OpsMgr (#SCOM)?

OpsMgr 2007 introduced the concept of a Root Management Server and Secondary Management Servers. In OpsMgr2007 the RMS comprised 3 services providing the following functionality: · SDK Service o Console access and role based access control o Connectors t...

January 09 2012 1:20 PM

Exchange Back Pressure & OpsMgr Notification Channels

Up until recently in environment where the client has a highly available Exchange server environment I used to agree to using a single SMTP relay when defining an OpsMgr channel for notification. My thought process was that as long as the Exchange server...

January 07 2012 1:12 PM

A quick question about groups in OpsMgr (#SCOM)

I received a good question from a colleague of mine in Atlanta recently (shout-out to the Atlanta user group!). Here’s the question: “Can you have both explicit and dynamic members in a group? Simple question but no one seems to address it.” Just to keep...

November 16 2011 8:57 AM

OpsMgr–(#SCOM) Query to return all recent processor performance counters

The following is another dashboard component for the Service Manager Dashboard customized for OpsMgr (#SCOM). This queries for from the OperationsManagerDW database to gather the most recent counters for Processor Utilization for all servers in the envir...

November 15 2011 9:27 AM

OpsMgr (#SCOM) Queries and Dashboards for Alerts, Events and Performance counters per minute

Recently we were attempting to look for spikes of alerts, events or performance counters in our environment to indicate potential floods of information. To track these down, we used queries off the the OperationsManagerDW (to avoid reading from the Opera...

November 14 2011 5:06 PM

Q&A Session for SCOM 2012 - Critical Migration Considerations

Session Number: 664890705 Date: 2011-11-8 Starting time: 11:24 [Cameron] – Let me start by saying thank you to everyone who attended the webinar! Thank you for attending and for providing such an excellent list of questions! Myself and Rob will do our be...

November 14 2011 2:50 PM

Video & Slides for the “Critical Considerations When Migrating to SCOM 2012” Webinar

Savision has provided a recording of the webinar is now available on the Savision website (available here - #SCOM). Presentation Slides are also available if you email either your Savision account executive, or sales@savision.com.

November 09 2011 10:51 AM

Dallas System Center 2012 Event–Q&A

There were several great questions asked during or directly after the System Center 2012 event that we did in Dallas on October 26th (#SCOM #SCCM #SCSM). I’ve been gathering answers from our team (ok, mostly I bugged Chris Nackers because most of these w...

November 08 2011 2:17 PM

Q&A Session for Top 5 Reasons to Migrate to SCOM 2012

Session Number: 664106486 Date: 2011-10-11 Starting time: 13:35 [Cameron] – Let me start by saying thank you to everyone who attended the webinar! Thank you for attending and for providing such a GREAT list of questions! Myself and Rob will do our best t...