http://tfs.visualstudio.com I recently started building Management Packs using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions.  Using Visual Studio in the past, I used a local Team Foundation Server for versioning of…

  KB2882532 To resolve the issue, remove the 1 KB agent installer files from the following folder on the management server under the System Center Operations Manager installation directory: %ProgramFiles%\System…

  Recently I ran into an issue of agents not showing up in Pending Management after installing SP1 UR2 at a customer.  I had installed the files using and elevated…

  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…