System Center Essentials 2010 is RTM

 
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…

Stranded in europe for MMS

 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…

Message Queuing management packs released

 
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.
W…

Memory usage SCOM agent for linux

 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…

Discovering virtual machines with SCOM

 
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…

Savision enthusiasm

 
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…

SCOM R2 sizing helper is updated

 
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…