This month the Minnesota System Center User Group will have System Center MVP Cameron Fuller presenting "Monitoring and tuning System Center with SCOM". For those of you not familiar with Cameron, he is a Operations Manager Most Valuable Professional (MVP). A Principal consultant for Catapult Systems, an IT consulting company and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. … Read more
I received an email today from a SCORCH guru about a script that he recently made for Orchestrator. He made this available for download today. The tool allows you to select a SCORCH server when launching designer. His name is Mark Monson and here is the official description on what the tool does. We … Read more
I just found out about some free training from Microsoft. It is free online virtualization training November 19 & 20. The training also includes a free voucher to take a Microsoft certification. Details from the site: Get the Microsoft Virtualization Certification. Train up, receive a free certification exam voucher, and validate your skills You’ve … Read more
Today I received an email from Microsoft that I was awarded System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP for another year. Here is the email I received: Again a big thanks to everyone in the community and Microsoft. It is an honor to continue to be a part of this team! I have made some … Read more
Recently I needed to pull a large list of servers from Active Directory based on a common term in the computer name. This common term was not at the front of the name or at the end but in the middle of the computer name on each of these servers. Because of this I had … Read more
I am happy to announce that today I passed the final exam to obtain the MCSE: Private Cloud certification. I was able to upgrade from the MCITP: Server Administrator requiring me to only pass two exams. Out of the 70-246 Private Cloud Monitoring and Operations with System Center 2012 and 70-247 Private Cloud Configuration … Read more
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Here is another tool that can be used to help you tune or demo SCOM. This tool is called Philip and is a disk space filler. This tool can be used to fill up space on a hard drive so an alert can be triggered on SCOM. The speed at which this tool generates the … Read more
There has been discussion lately around running SCOM 2012 and other SC products in the cloud for DEMO and POC purposes. One problem with running SCOM in a cloud solution is not having access to network device/s. There is a solution to this. You can run a network device emulator. This is available as software … Read more
Are you learning System Center Orchestrator 2012? If yes, you can download some example runbooks to help you practice on Orchestrator. These can be downloaded from codeplex here: http://orchestrator.codeplex.com/releases/view/86195 There are 43 total runbooks most are for each of the products in the System Center 2012 stack but there are a few for general administrative … Read more