Remotely testing SQL connections

One nice gem from Steve Rachui’s blog is a trick on how to simply troubleshoot remote SQL connections.
Just create an empty txt file anywhere on the disk and give it an UDL extension and click it. You will see a tool popping up with several tabs. on t…

SCOM R2 Unleashed book finally at home

Yeah!
Finally I got the paper version of the SCOM 2007 R2 Unleashed book in my hand.
My Precious (imagine the Gollum voice here)…
Already had the electronic version, but I simply like real paper books most for normal reading.
Thanks to Kerrie and f…

SCDPM and SCSM documentation

Going to start reading the documentation is always a good place to start.
So as DPM 2010 and Service Manager 2010 hit RTM you can find the docs and links to docs here:
DPM 2010:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399192.aspx
Service Man…