Set up the new System Center Advisor preview
For those of you who were attending or following TechEd North America I Houston last week, it may not come as a surprise that during an Operations Manager br...
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system-center
System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 Preview is out
This morning during the TechEd Europe 2013 keynote with Brad Anderson, Microsoft released several preview versions as promised. Windows Server 2012 R2 is one...
Create a custom view for SCOM alerts in SCSM
In my last post I wrote about how to connect Operations Manager to Service Manager. The default settings after this has been done and following my guide to s...
Connecting Operations Manager to Service Manager
Some time ago, I wrote a post about why you should connect Operations Manager to Service Manager. The reason why you would want to do this is to make life ea...
Veeam Management Pack for VMware 6 update available
In my last post that you´ll find here, you could read about Veeams updated Management Pack for VMware. What´s happened since they released the updated integ...
Veeam Management Pack for VMware 6
Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about how to monitor your VMware environment. The solution that Veeam has come up with consists of three components; t...
Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1 is out
Yesterday, Microsoft released Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1. This is an update covering Operations Manager, App Controller, Service Manager, Orc...
Monitor your environment using Operations Manager and Service Manager
Sometimes, System Center Operations Manager can look like a very complex and difficult system to learn. There are a lot of rules and monitors to watch out an...
Set up SMS notifications in SCOM
When you have implemented Operations Manager and imported the Management Packs that gives you the monitoring you want, the next step should be setting up not...
Monitor your VMware environment using Veeam MP
As you already know, Operations Manager is a great product that resides on Management Packs to provide monitoring for our servers and applications. Among the...
Rename your custom Management Packs
When importing a new Management Pack, a custom Management pack should always be created for containing overrides for det imported Management Pack. This is no...
Create a certificate template for monitoring Non-Domain members
To monitor servers that aren´t in your domain but in a DMZ, a server certificate is required. In order for this to work properly, a Certificate Template need...
Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 SP1 is released
Today, Microsoft released Update Rollup 1 for the System Center 2012 SP1 suite. Since this is an Operations Manager blog, I´m only listing whats new for SCOM...
microsoft
System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 Preview is out
This morning during the TechEd Europe 2013 keynote with Brad Anderson, Microsoft released several preview versions as promised. Windows Server 2012 R2 is one...
Create a custom view for SCOM alerts in SCSM
In my last post I wrote about how to connect Operations Manager to Service Manager. The default settings after this has been done and following my guide to s...
Connecting Operations Manager to Service Manager
Some time ago, I wrote a post about why you should connect Operations Manager to Service Manager. The reason why you would want to do this is to make life ea...
Veeam Management Pack for VMware 6 update available
In my last post that you´ll find here, you could read about Veeams updated Management Pack for VMware. What´s happened since they released the updated integ...
Veeam Management Pack for VMware 6
Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about how to monitor your VMware environment. The solution that Veeam has come up with consists of three components; t...
Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1 is out
Yesterday, Microsoft released Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1. This is an update covering Operations Manager, App Controller, Service Manager, Orc...
Monitor your environment using Operations Manager and Service Manager
Sometimes, System Center Operations Manager can look like a very complex and difficult system to learn. There are a lot of rules and monitors to watch out an...
Set up SMS notifications in SCOM
When you have implemented Operations Manager and imported the Management Packs that gives you the monitoring you want, the next step should be setting up not...
Monitor your VMware environment using Veeam MP
As you already know, Operations Manager is a great product that resides on Management Packs to provide monitoring for our servers and applications. Among the...
Rename your custom Management Packs
When importing a new Management Pack, a custom Management pack should always be created for containing overrides for det imported Management Pack. This is no...
Create a certificate template for monitoring Non-Domain members
To monitor servers that aren´t in your domain but in a DMZ, a server certificate is required. In order for this to work properly, a Certificate Template need...
Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 SP1 is released
Today, Microsoft released Update Rollup 1 for the System Center 2012 SP1 suite. Since this is an Operations Manager blog, I´m only listing whats new for SCOM...
operations-manager
System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 Preview is out
This morning during the TechEd Europe 2013 keynote with Brad Anderson, Microsoft released several preview versions as promised. Windows Server 2012 R2 is one...
Create a custom view for SCOM alerts in SCSM
In my last post I wrote about how to connect Operations Manager to Service Manager. The default settings after this has been done and following my guide to s...
Connecting Operations Manager to Service Manager
Some time ago, I wrote a post about why you should connect Operations Manager to Service Manager. The reason why you would want to do this is to make life ea...
Veeam Management Pack for VMware 6 update available
In my last post that you´ll find here, you could read about Veeams updated Management Pack for VMware. What´s happened since they released the updated integ...
Veeam Management Pack for VMware 6
Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about how to monitor your VMware environment. The solution that Veeam has come up with consists of three components; t...
Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1 is out
Yesterday, Microsoft released Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1. This is an update covering Operations Manager, App Controller, Service Manager, Orc...
Monitor your environment using Operations Manager and Service Manager
Sometimes, System Center Operations Manager can look like a very complex and difficult system to learn. There are a lot of rules and monitors to watch out an...
Set up SMS notifications in SCOM
When you have implemented Operations Manager and imported the Management Packs that gives you the monitoring you want, the next step should be setting up not...
Monitor your VMware environment using Veeam MP
As you already know, Operations Manager is a great product that resides on Management Packs to provide monitoring for our servers and applications. Among the...
Rename your custom Management Packs
When importing a new Management Pack, a custom Management pack should always be created for containing overrides for det imported Management Pack. This is no...
Create a certificate template for monitoring Non-Domain members
To monitor servers that aren´t in your domain but in a DMZ, a server certificate is required. In order for this to work properly, a Certificate Template need...
Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 SP1 is released
Today, Microsoft released Update Rollup 1 for the System Center 2012 SP1 suite. Since this is an Operations Manager blog, I´m only listing whats new for SCOM...
azure
ARM Templates: Deploying Azure Monitor Alerts
In my series of blog posts about working with ARM templates I have gone through a lot of different use cases. In the last post I covered how to deploy a nest...
ARM Templates: Working with nested templates in Azure
Working with nested templates in Azure ARM templates is something that not all are using, and I don´t think everyone knows about it either. Nested templates ...
ARM Templates: Working with parameters in Azure
Working with parameters in Azure is something I want to discuss a bit more than what I´ve done earlier. Azure tags have recently been covered on this blog, m...
ARM Templates: Working with tags in Azure
Working with tags in Azure is a really important thing. It´s something that everyone should do as soon as they start to move workloads to Azure. In my last t...
ARM Templates: Working with naming conventions
In my last post which you can find here, I wrote about how to get started writing ARM templates for you Azure deployments. In the end I provided an ARM templ...
Getting started with Azure ARM templates
The first time I heard about JSON and ARM templates together with Azure in the same sentence, was in Chicago at Microsoft Ignite back in 2015. My first thoug...
New challenges on the horizon
A lot has happened since my last blog post, and my motivation to write new blog posts has not really been on top. Due to the fact that my personal focus has ...
Get notified on Azure service health issues
More and more services are moving to the cloud, Azure is one of the larges players but AWS and Google Cloud are also two large players. But just because reso...
Looking at the available Azure Monitor data sources
The available Azure Monitor data sources is an interesting topic. Azure Monitor is a really powerful monitoring solution solely based in Azure, with a lot of...
Azure Monitor - Getting started with alerting
Azure Monitor is a quite new addition to the monitoring sphere when talking about monitoring Microsoft technologies. Traditionally it has been System Center ...
Migrating lots of agents to Azure Log Analytics
A while ago we were involved in a project with one of our customers where our goal was to connect a large amount of servers to Azure Log Analytics. They had ...
The OMS portal is retired
Last week on January 15th was the last day of the OMS portal before its retirement. It has now completely moved to the Azure portal instead. Since Operation...
azure-monitor
ARM Templates: Deploying Azure Monitor Alerts
In my series of blog posts about working with ARM templates I have gone through a lot of different use cases. In the last post I covered how to deploy a nest...
New challenges on the horizon
A lot has happened since my last blog post, and my motivation to write new blog posts has not really been on top. Due to the fact that my personal focus has ...
Get notified on Azure service health issues
More and more services are moving to the cloud, Azure is one of the larges players but AWS and Google Cloud are also two large players. But just because reso...
Looking at the available Azure Monitor data sources
The available Azure Monitor data sources is an interesting topic. Azure Monitor is a really powerful monitoring solution solely based in Azure, with a lot of...
Azure Monitor - Getting started with alerting
Azure Monitor is a quite new addition to the monitoring sphere when talking about monitoring Microsoft technologies. Traditionally it has been System Center ...
Migrating lots of agents to Azure Log Analytics
A while ago we were involved in a project with one of our customers where our goal was to connect a large amount of servers to Azure Log Analytics. They had ...
The OMS portal is retired
Last week on January 15th was the last day of the OMS portal before its retirement. It has now completely moved to the Azure portal instead. Since Operation...
armtemplates
ARM Templates: Deploying Azure Monitor Alerts
In my series of blog posts about working with ARM templates I have gone through a lot of different use cases. In the last post I covered how to deploy a nest...
ARM Templates: Working with nested templates in Azure
Working with nested templates in Azure ARM templates is something that not all are using, and I don´t think everyone knows about it either. Nested templates ...
ARM Templates: Working with parameters in Azure
Working with parameters in Azure is something I want to discuss a bit more than what I´ve done earlier. Azure tags have recently been covered on this blog, m...
ARM Templates: Working with tags in Azure
Working with tags in Azure is a really important thing. It´s something that everyone should do as soon as they start to move workloads to Azure. In my last t...
ARM Templates: Working with naming conventions
In my last post which you can find here, I wrote about how to get started writing ARM templates for you Azure deployments. In the end I provided an ARM templ...
Getting started with Azure ARM templates
The first time I heard about JSON and ARM templates together with Azure in the same sentence, was in Chicago at Microsoft Ignite back in 2015. My first thoug...
scom
New challenges on the horizon
A lot has happened since my last blog post, and my motivation to write new blog posts has not really been on top. Due to the fact that my personal focus has ...
Test the perfomance of a SQL query using SCOM
When it comes to replacing an old monitoring solution with SCOM, quite often there are some custom built monitors used in the old system. Since the monitors ...
Setting up the brand new Office 365 Management Pack for SCOM
During TechEd North America which took place in Houston in May, the OpsMgr product team gave us a sneak peek of the upcoming Office 365 Management Pack. This...
Group your virtual machines in SCOM
For a while, I´ve been struggling with a problem when configuring Operations Manager. As a consultant, I run into a lot of different issues to solve and one ...
Backup unsealed Management Packs in SCOM
When Operations Manager has been up and running for a while, a couple of overrides MP’s are created that we don´t want to lose. A while back, I wrote a blog ...
log-analytics
ARM Templates: Working with naming conventions
In my last post which you can find here, I wrote about how to get started writing ARM templates for you Azure deployments. In the end I provided an ARM templ...
Get notified on Azure service health issues
More and more services are moving to the cloud, Azure is one of the larges players but AWS and Google Cloud are also two large players. But just because reso...
Looking at the available Azure Monitor data sources
The available Azure Monitor data sources is an interesting topic. Azure Monitor is a really powerful monitoring solution solely based in Azure, with a lot of...
Azure Monitor - Getting started with alerting
Azure Monitor is a quite new addition to the monitoring sphere when talking about monitoring Microsoft technologies. Traditionally it has been System Center ...
Migrating lots of agents to Azure Log Analytics
A while ago we were involved in a project with one of our customers where our goal was to connect a large amount of servers to Azure Log Analytics. They had ...
azuremonitor
ARM Templates: Working with nested templates in Azure
Working with nested templates in Azure ARM templates is something that not all are using, and I don´t think everyone knows about it either. Nested templates ...
ARM Templates: Working with parameters in Azure
Working with parameters in Azure is something I want to discuss a bit more than what I´ve done earlier. Azure tags have recently been covered on this blog, m...
ARM Templates: Working with tags in Azure
Working with tags in Azure is a really important thing. It´s something that everyone should do as soon as they start to move workloads to Azure. In my last t...
ARM Templates: Working with naming conventions
In my last post which you can find here, I wrote about how to get started writing ARM templates for you Azure deployments. In the end I provided an ARM templ...
vmware
Veeam Management Pack for VMware 6 update available
In my last post that you´ll find here, you could read about Veeams updated Management Pack for VMware. What´s happened since they released the updated integ...
Monitor your VMware environment using Veeam MP
As you already know, Operations Manager is a great product that resides on Management Packs to provide monitoring for our servers and applications. Among the...
json
ARM Templates: Working with naming conventions
In my last post which you can find here, I wrote about how to get started writing ARM templates for you Azure deployments. In the end I provided an ARM templ...
Getting started with Azure ARM templates
The first time I heard about JSON and ARM templates together with Azure in the same sentence, was in Chicago at Microsoft Ignite back in 2015. My first thoug...
resourcemanager
ARM Templates: Deploying Azure Monitor Alerts
In my series of blog posts about working with ARM templates I have gone through a lot of different use cases. In the last post I covered how to deploy a nest...
ARM Templates: Working with naming conventions
In my last post which you can find here, I wrote about how to get started writing ARM templates for you Azure deployments. In the end I provided an ARM templ...
service-manager
Connecting Operations Manager to Service Manager
Some time ago, I wrote a post about why you should connect Operations Manager to Service Manager. The reason why you would want to do this is to make life ea...
teched
TechEd North America 2014, day 1 has come to an end
So, finally TechEd North America 2014 has begun. This time, we´re in Houston, Texas (The lone star state) and the event goes on from today until this thursda...
hyper-v
Setup Veeams coming Management Pack for Hyper-V
For those of you that have read my blog for a while, it may not come as a shock that I´ve earlier looked into Veeams Management Pack for VMware. I´ve written...
office-365
Setting up the brand new Office 365 Management Pack for SCOM
During TechEd North America which took place in Houston in May, the OpsMgr product team gave us a sneak peek of the upcoming Office 365 Management Pack. This...
oms
The OMS portal is retired
Last week on January 15th was the last day of the OMS portal before its retirement. It has now completely moved to the Azure portal instead. Since Operation...
operations-management-suite
The OMS portal is retired
Last week on January 15th was the last day of the OMS portal before its retirement. It has now completely moved to the Azure portal instead. Since Operation...
cloud
Get notified on Azure service health issues
More and more services are moving to the cloud, Azure is one of the larges players but AWS and Google Cloud are also two large players. But just because reso...
new-challenges
New challenges on the horizon
A lot has happened since my last blog post, and my motivation to write new blog posts has not really been on top. Due to the fact that my personal focus has ...
new-job
New challenges on the horizon
A lot has happened since my last blog post, and my motivation to write new blog posts has not really been on top. Due to the fact that my personal focus has ...
powershell
ARM Templates: Working with parameters in Azure
Working with parameters in Azure is something I want to discuss a bit more than what I´ve done earlier. Azure tags have recently been covered on this blog, m...
arm
ARM Templates: Working with nested templates in Azure
Working with nested templates in Azure ARM templates is something that not all are using, and I don´t think everyone knows about it either. Nested templates ...