Earlier today System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) was released to manufacturing.
Some of the highlights from the SCE website:
System Center Essentials 2010 (Essentials 2010) is a new management solution in the System Center family of…
Looks like I am one fo those who got stranded in Europe this weekend, due to airspace being closed. Wanted to fly tomorrow from Amsterdam via London to Las Vegas and for a while it did look like it might just go through because I had a later flig…
So the Message Queuing management packs for version 4 and 5 have been released. I know this is old news for some of you, as these MPs have been available for the last 2 weeks almost ;). I recently got a question as to what these versions are.
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We had a chance the other week to understand the memory usage by SCOM cross plat agents for Red Hat linux and I wanted to share this info with you. The take away by the way is that the agent is not using much memory.The case:After deploying…
Just thought to post on a management pack that has been around for some time, posted by my friend Pete Zerger. On Windows boxes it not only discovers if it is a windows virtual machine (hyper-v for instance), but also if it is a vmware guest. Thi…
While installing a SQL 2005 Reporting Services on a Windows 2003 machine today I got the following error:——————————————————————————–The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML…
Last week I visited Savision head quarters in the Netherlands.
Was great to see them again and talk about new things to come.
I can’t wait to see and get the new releases of software coming from these guys.
Of course there will be a new ve…
Sorry for the delay, but I just wanted to mention that the SCOM R2 sizing helper has had an update about 2 weeks ago. You can get the Operations Manager 2007 R2 sizing helper here.
I use these a lot as they help with getting basic sizing recom…
I was just looking through the technet forums and saw an updated post from Kerrie Meyler, the lead writer of the SCOM Unleashed books.
This is an excerpt from the latest post in the thread:
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I am now able to conf…
Had a few machines today with an error we see more often, so I thought I would share it.
Symptoms:
A SCOM agent has these messages.
Event 21041.
Operations Manager has received a bad configuration file for management group mgmtgroup whic…