This would be a pretty sweet setup. ThinkPad W530 with Windows 8 Pro and 32GB of total memory ThinkPad Battery 28++ Lenovo USB 2.0 Port Replicator with digital video…

  Here are some great links to building dashboards in SCOM 2012 from Basic to Advanced     Basics   Introducing Operations Manager 2012 Dashboards Operations Manager 2012 Dashboards –…

Hello, my name is Mark Drewfs.  I am a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft with a focus on Systems Center Operations Manager.  I started building data models of the SCOM…

  Veeam has released V6 of their Management Pack for monitoring VMware with SCOM.  More info about the new MP is located here. http://www.veeam.com/vmware-microsoft-esx-monitoring.html   New Features of the MP…

  I was recently working with a customer that was trying to install SCOM 2012 and leverage Application Performance Monitoring.  After pushing the SCOM 2012 agent the customer told they…

  Lots of good Authors (and Technical Editors) So I am sure it’s going to be a good book.

If you are installing SQL 2012, on Server 2012 running on a VMware VM.  This is something to watch out for. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2799534   Assume that you try to install Microsoft…

Today 2-13  is the last day for Early-bird pricing to MMS 2013.   If you haven’t attended MMS in the past I highly recommend it. http://www.2013mms.com   Here are a few…

  In my last blog post, I showed how to create a SCOM Dashboard using Visio.  https://www.scom2k7.com/creating-scom-2012-dashboards-using-visio-2010-or-visio-2013/   Now I am going to show how to add this Dashboard into…

  First I download the Microsoft Visio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Extensions for System Center 2012 from here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=29268   The install doc says I need these pre-requisites: System Center…