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SystemCenter
Power BI for SCSM
As part of delivering our managed services at cubesys we are using System Center Service Manager for incident logging and request management. We wanted to en...
New step in my career…. down under!
I’m so excited that I can finally speak about the next big step in my career…and it’s going to be down under!
System Center Universe Asia Pacific is coming!
The biggest Cloud and Datacenter event in Asia is back!
7th MVP renewal!
Today, January 1st like every year is a very big day for all January MVP’s as we get to know if we are renewed for another year or not!
OMS Calculator
Microsoft released an OMS calculator to budget OMS licenses and commitment needed to use OMS. It also compares the two purchasing options of add-on to System...
System Center Orchestrator Migration Toolkit’- Beta is released
What is System Center Orchestrator Migration Toolkit
Bulk migrate virtual machines after Hyper-V replication
As discussed in one of my previous blog posts I’m now working on a migration project to move virtual machines from one datacenter to another datacenter. I’m ...
Create VMM Clouds in bulk with PowerShell
As you might remember from my previous blog post I’m working now on a Hyper-V migration project where I couldn’t reuse the old VMM server. So besides re-crea...
Enable Hyper-V Replica for all virtual machines in a specific Cloud
As discussed in my previous blog post I’m now working on a migration project to move virtual machines from one datacenter to another datacenter. I’m using Hy...
Create Virtual networks in VMM with Powershell
I’m now working on a HyperV migration project to move all servers from one datacenter to a new datacenter. This implies that I need to move all virtual machi...
Part 1: Bulk import server locations with PowerShell
For a recent project I had to specify the longitude and latitude for all my servers (about a 1000) to be able to show them on a map.
Part 1: How to manage your clouds with Facebook
At SystemCenter Universe Asia I showcased how you can manage your cloud from Facebook:
Install OpsMgr Agent-less remotely with Powershell
In our previous post we installed the OpsMgr agent remotely with Poweshell and enabled agent proxying. Now we are going to monitor a server agentless via Pow...
Install OpsMgr Agent remotely with Powershell
As you are aware by now I’m creating a series of Powershell automation activities to automate some System Center installation tasks. Below you can find a Pow...
Configure users and Roles in App Controller with Powershell
I had to configure remotely some users and Roles in App controller with Powershell. You can find a lot of all App Controller CMDLets here http://technet.mic...
Powershell Deployment Toolkit and WAP
The latest publicly available PDT version 2.5.270 now includes besides System Center 2012 R2 also Windows Azure Pack.
How to change SCOM reporting to use Kerberos instead of NTLM
One of the Domain admins at one of my customers was complaining about all the NTLM request generated by the scom server to the reporting server. One of the i...
Cloud Service pack failed: Current user is not a valid Orchestrator user
Microsoft released beginning of March the updated Cloud Service Process pack that is now fully compatible with System Center 2012 SP1. You can download the n...
Extended network device monitoring list updated
Microsoft just released and updated list of devices that can be monitored by Operations Manager 2012. OpsMgrr 2012 can monitor network devices that support S...
AEM ADMX File for OpsMgr 2007 R2
Last week I was at a customer to implement AEM.
The System Center Management service terminated with service-specific error %%-2147467259
I had the following issue on one of my servers
Best of MMS is coming: 15 june 2011
For our best of MMS on June 15 we will have a special guest! Chris Childers is coming to Belgium!
Hp bladesystem enclosure monitoring manager requested registry access is not allowed
You need to open the HP bladesystem enclosure monitoring manager as an Administrator. Otherwise you will have the following error:
HP Blade System MP installer does not install the mp file
If you want to use the latest HP blade management pack 1.40 you need to install or upgrade your HP proliant MP first to the same version 1.40.
System Center Advisor Changing the upload frequency
Most of the configuration like changing upload frequency is done in the registry.
System Center Advisor configuring data upload
By default, Advisor will enable the gateway to automatically upload collected data from your server to Advisor.
Using System Center Advisor Management Packs in OpsMgr
System Center Advisor has some extra management packs that are not available for OpsMgr.
System Center Advisor Part 2 Installation
In the previous blogpost I gave you a short overview of System Center Advisor. Let’s have a look at the installation of System Center Advisor.
System Center Roadmap 2011
I’m so excited about the direction that Microsoft is taking with the new System Center products!
4 more speakers from the System Center Product Team at Techdays Belgium
We’ve secured 4 more speakers from the System Center Product Team for Techdays Belgium
The OpsMgr Unleashed authors on Operations Manager 2012
Talk TechNet is about discussing topics and trends in the world of IT Professionals. In our May 6th show we’ll have guests Kerrie Meyler , Cameron Fuller, a...
Save the date! Teched Europe June 25-29 2012 in Amsterdam
Just got an email from Microsoft that Teched Europe will be in Amsterdam this time!
Avicode now in the SMSE and SMDE suite!
It was announced a few weeks ago that Microsoft had acquired AVIcode and now they finaly released a trial version and give an update regarding the new licens...
update Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack
Mircrosoft has released an update of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack version 6.1.7695.0
TechEd BOF Session Proposal Voting
My BOF session has been selected for TechEd. Now it’s tome to vote!
Belgium System Center Day
Scug.be is very excited to annouce our next event. For this occasion we have some top international speakers like Wally Mead, Travis Wright, Jason Buffington...
Fix duplicate relationships for agents to server in Ops DB
Sometimes it can happen that agents are ending up with multiple primary management server relationships. Of course you can only have one primary server relat...
Tech Ed Europe: Vote For The Sessions You Want To See
You have the ability to influence what sessions will be shown at Tech Ed Europe.
Cumulative Update 2 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 Connectors
Microsoft just released Cumulative update 2 for the Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors.
Service Manager Management Pack
Microsoft released the Service Manager 2010 Management Pack. The Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 Management Pack helps you manage your Service M...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack 3rd quarterly update
Microsoft released a week ago the 3rd quarterly update for the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack. You can download it from here http:/...
Belgian Best of MMS: The top 20 “Must Have“ customizations in Operations Manager
This session will look at the 20 most common configuration changes or customizations that we implement in our consulting engagements. At the end of this sess...
Registration for TechEd Europe is open!
Tech∙Ed Europe returns to Berlin this November 8 – 12, for a full week of deep technical education, hands-on-learning and opportunities to connect with Micro...
Community Day 2010
Community Day is back with the Fourth Edition of this annual community event on Microsoft technologies!
Microsoft on What’s Next for Managing Datacenters and the Cloud!
Microsoft is going to invest heavily in Dynamic IT / cloud capabilities that Virtual Machine Manager vNext and Operations Manager vNext will deliver.
Cumulative Update 2 for OpsMgr installation
High Level overview steps:
Cumulative Update 2 Released for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 opsmgr
Microsoft has just released a second cumulative update for opsmgr! More information can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979257
MMS 2010 Keynotes
The MMS 2010 keynotes are available online!
Best of MMS 2010
Hi all,
OpsMgr Management Pack Catalog Certificate not Valid or Expired!
I installed a new OpsMgr environment today and when I wanted to import management packs it seems that the certificate is not valid or trusted.
Operations Manager 2007 Superflows
After the config mgr SuperFlows we now have the OpsMgr 2007 Superflows!
Infront TrendMicro Management Pack
The Infront TrendMicro Management Pack allows customers to proactively monitor their TrendMicro environment. This Management Pack allows for the monitoring o...
The Quest QMX VMware extension is now free via vCenter and vSphere
Quest has announced that the QMX VMware extension is now free via vCenter and vSphere.
MOF 4.0 Foundation Course
Microsoft just announced the beta release of the MOF 4.0 Foundation Course.
MMS 2010
MMS 2010 will be in Las Vegas April 19-23, and registration is now open. The list of planned sessions is available at http://www.mms-2010.com/public/sessions...
OpsMgr 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 1
Our first cumulative update has released for OpsMgr 2007 R2! Cumulative Update 1 contains a number of fixes for the Operations Manager 2007 R2 release. More ...
OpsMgr survey about Management Pack Authoring
Microsoft is conducting a survey about Management Pack Authoring. If you ever wanted to give feedback about the management pack authoring process now is the ...
Server Management Suite Licenses getting more expensive!
Today the System Center Team announced the new capabilities and price changes of the Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) and Server Management Suite Da...
MVP RENEWAL and Happy New year
First of all I wish you all a happy new year!
OpsMgr Management pack APC ISX Central Integration Management Pack
This week I had to implement an APC management pack at a customer site and I will explain how to get it working. This customer is using APC to monitor and co...
OpsMgr : Certificate for this system is not valid when installing Linux agent
Today I ran into some Linux agent deployment issues. I needed to monitor about 20 Redhat Machines . In such an environment environment, Kerberos authenticati...
OpsMgr bug : console crashing when creating an override on cluster resource group monitor
Be aware that there is a bug when you want to create an override on the resource group rollup monitor to change the maintenance mode behavior!
OpsMgr Webconsole Runtime error “Server Error in ‘/’ Application”
Just a little reminder that if you install the OpsMgr web console after the UI console has already been installed you will need to Copy the following files f...
New management packs for OpsMgr in October
Microsoft is working very hard these days and is has released a whole bunch of updated and new management packs this month.
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit
Microsoft just released the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Resource kit. You can download it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9104af8b-ff87-45a1...
OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP version 6.1.7553.0 is Released
Just got an email from Microsoft saying that they just released their first out of band update to the Operations Manager Management Pack! Notice that this up...
Video Interview: Implementing SCOM in a large Belgium Hospital by Alexandre Verkinderen
Alexandre Verkinderen, System Center Operations Manager MVP, talks about the monitoring solution he implemented at AZ Sint Maarten, a large Belgium Hospital....
New Connect site for the OM Community
Hello OM Community,
Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just released an update for the windows server mp. They now support Windows 2008 R2 ! Another nice thing is that finaly you can also display the lo...
Windows Key Management Service MP for Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just released a new KMS mp for opmsgr 2007. Be carefull when importing it via the catalog with the OpsMgr 2007 R2 console. Before importing the mp ...
Proliant Management pack RealtimeMonitors_SNMP.FailedComponent Auto Server Recovery 0
Just imported the HP Proliant management pack for SCOM 2007 and hade a lot of servers in warning state even if nothing was wrong in the Insight homepage.
Live maps V4 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available
Savision has just released a major now version of Live Maps designed specifically for System Center Operations Manager R2!
Cleaning the Localizedtext Table after SCOM upgrade to SCOM 2007 R2
After upgrading your OpsMgr 2007 components and upgrading your SQL environment to SQL Server 2008, you will need to run some post installation steps. These p...
Export SQL reports in PDF landscape
I had to create some reports for a customer this week and the layout of the report didn’t satisfied my client. The reports are exported in portrait format an...
Dell 4.0 hardware MP is released for Opsmgr 2007 SP1 and R2
Early this week Dell released a major update to their OpsMgr management pack with their 4.0 version. I strongly encourage you to check out this MP as there ...
Technet Events
In the comming weeks Microsoft Belgium is hosting some very interesting Technet events.
TrendMicro Management pack for Opsmgr 2007 R2
I’m develloping a native TrendMicro management pack for Opsmgr 2007 R2 at the moment. I wanted to make this a community MP so any feedback is welcome! Or if ...
SCUG.BE session on Service Manager
Service Manager: From Re-active to Pro-active**
System Center User Group Netherlands Summer Night
Our friends and colleagues from the Nederlands are organizing a System Center Summer Night! The Belgium System Center User Group will also be there to visit ...
Community Day Session: Setting up & Configuring SQL Server to support your SCCM & SCOM environment
Kim Oppalfens and I did a session at community day together:
System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Transition to System Management Suite Datacenter
As mentioned in here the System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Licensing has changed since today. Microsoft has developed a transition path from ...
Third MVP awarded in the User group
I’m very proud to announce that one of the co-founders of the user-group and friend Kenny Buntinx has been awarded with the prestigious MVP award System Cent...
HP EVA performance management pack V2 for Opsmgr
In a previous blogpost I already mentioned that Alain Cote has developped a HP EVA performance management pack.
Known issues with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just published a known issue with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007.
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 SCW Roles and Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2008
Microsoft released a Operations Manager 2007 R2 SCW Roles and Hardening guide help protect and harden your Operations Manager 2007 R2 environment.
HP EVA management pack
Alain Côté has written his own HP EVA management pack! This Management pack will monitor the performance of an HP EVA, the official HP Storage MP only does ...
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
The new Exchange Server 2007 management pack for Opsmgr 2007 R2 is now RTM and available from the mp catalog!
Opsmgr Performance problems with healthservice on agents
On some occasions the scom agent can cause a lot of performance issues on the servers. Here I will describe some steps I take when I have performance problem...
Collect Processor time % of the HealthService.exe of your agents
If you have performance problems on your agents it’s probably the healthservice.exe that’s taking a lot of processor time %. At the moment only the processor...
Session Recording Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment.
SESSION RECORDING Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment
Interview with Nigel Cain at Techdays 2009 in Antwerp on SCSM
At Techdays 2009 in Antwerp we interviewed Nigel Cain ( Program Manager – Operations and Service Management group) and asked him some questions on System Cen...
Opsmgr DB Create wizard System.InvalidOperationException
Today I wanted to install my OperationsmanagerDB on my SQL cluster 2005 SP2 actif-passive.
Optimizing the performance of your Opsmgr Console and reducing DB size
I had troubles with the Opmsgr Console performance at serveral clients.
savision Live maps for Opsmgr 2007
I’ve just done some big implementations of Savision Live maps and I’ve to addmit…I just love it!
Upgrading Opsmgr 2007 R2 RC consoles to Opsmgr 2007 R2 RTM
When you want to start upgrading your consoles from the opmsgr 2007 R2 RC version to the Opsmgr 2007 R2 RTM version be carefull with:
Upgrade Opsmgr 2007 R2 RC to Opsmgr 2007 R2 RTM
I’ve several production environmnets running the Opmsgr 2007 R2 Release Candidate version. Now that the Opsmgr 2007 R2 Rtm is available I wanted to test the ...
Opsmgr on Social Forum!
We just moved from the old news servers to the new social forum platform!
SCOM 2007 R2 is RTM!
SCOM 2007 R2 is RTM!
Opsmgr Data Warehouse failed to enumerate database components to be deployed
Today I ran into this issue:
Third Edition of Microsoft Community Day !!
Community Day is back again, are you ready for our Third Edition of Microsoft Community Day?
Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center
Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center (ICE-SC) is the first extensive solution that provides s...
Visio add-in for System Center Operations Manager
Microsoft just released a new Visio add-in for System Center Operations Manager! Go get it on the Connect Site!
IIS 7 management pack hotfix
As mentioned on the MOM team blog there was a problem with the IIS 7 Managemenent pack. After importing the Windows Server 2008 Internet Information Services...
Biwug session changed
Last minute change!
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Release Candidate available !
Yesterday, Microsoft released the OpsMgr R2 RC on their connect website. It’s version 6.1.7043.0 and is 1.277,26 MB in size !
Biwug & Scug Session: Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment
Title: Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment.
RMS grayed out and server discovery failed
After I installed my RMS and OpsmgrDB on two different servers my root management server went gray and every 10 minutes or so I receive an alert stating the ...
TechDays 2009 Highlights
Join us for the TechDays 2009 </p> Join us on March 10-12, 09 for the most important ...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Management Pack for Opsmgr 2007
Finally the SCVMM MP for Opsmgr 2007 with REPORTS is released!!
Alert : Check out the MSCommunity.be landing page
MSCommunity.be is the landing page for the Belgian Microsoft community. The purpose of this site is giving you an overview of all the events being organized ...
Opsmgr Service Level Dashboard for Exchange 2007
It is possible to create custom reports for Exchange 2007 using the Service Level Dashboard Solution Accelerator and the Exchange 2007 Management Pack. The O...
Native DPM 2007 managment pack for opsmgr
Microsoft released today the new native DPM 2007 management pack for Opmsgr.
TechDays 2009 in March
Whether you’re a developer, IT pro or designer: It is your thoughts, knowledge and ideas that shape the digital world. Microsoft supports you with platforms ...
MVP Award: System Center Operations Manager
I’m very proud to announce that Microsoft has awarded me with the MVP title “System Center Operations Manager” !! We now have 2 MVP’s in the user group!
The SQL Server Service Broker for the current Opsmgr database is not enabled
Yesterday I came accros this error:
Opsmgr 2007 R2 Beta1 Released!
Just got an email from Microsoft to announce that the Opsmgr 2007 R2 Beta available is on the connect site. Will post testing results soon!
Network aware service management with EMC Smart and Opsmgr
Stefan Stranger found an interesting video on network aware service management with the integration solution of emc smart and opsmgr.
Day 2 of teched 2008 Barcelona
At day 2 one of the sessions I followed covered the future of opsmgr. They announced that at the end of this month the beta of Opsmgr R2 will be available, R...
day 5
reporting 2008 no iis sharepoint integration sql 2005 and 208 side by side</ul>
day 4
cross platform Half 2009 rtm architecture building en later extra’s mp linux not comptaible with ...
Day 3 of teched Barcelona
acs powershell script to enable for groups enableforwarding.ps1 windows 2008 end of the year in v...
First day at teched Barcelona
I’m now at teched Barcelona and my first impressions? WOOOOW! Everything is very well organized, free wifi, everything is taken care off you even get free me...
Define a Health Criteria for your web application Monitor Part III
W’re almost at the end! 🙂 Only 3 steps left. First we have to define a healt criteria for our web appliction and after that we can create our distributed app...
Configuring the Service Level Dashboard Part V
After you create your monitors and distributed applications, you must take some additional steps to configure the Service Level Dashboard group and service l...
Creating the Distributed Application Models to Drive the Service Level Dashboard Part IV
The distributed application model interface provides a flexible way to customize the Service Level Dashboard display to your needs. The Service Level Dashboa...
Service Level Dashboard Part VI
Ok, so we finally have our service level dashboard. Let’s see some reports
Add a recording to an existing Web Application object Part II
First you will have to create a web application monitor. See my previous post on how to
Create a Web Application Monitor in opsmgr Part I
At the moment I’m testing web application monitoring, service level dashboard, etc. So the upcoming posts will handle on how to set up a web application moni...
Security Auditing & ACS Optimization Session recording
On September 16th we got a session on Security Auditing & ACS Optimization by Jeremiah Beckett from Securevantage.
Changing the ACS DataRetention Period for Opsmgr
Changing the Audit Collection Service DataRetention Period (based on the info found on the technet site)
Operations Manager/SSAS and PerformancePoint Scorecards
Daniel Savage posted on the team blog that the performancePoint team released a sample solution that shows how to build cubes from the Operations Manager DW...
Configuration of Opsmgr Exchange 2007 management pack
Here are some guidelines if you want to import the Exchange 2007 management pack in your scom environment:
ACS noise filter
When you install ACS you will get a ton of events! Not all events are relevant for your environment. Securevantage has written a nice noisefilter guide. This...
enable audit collection on opsmgr agents
Depending on your auditing needs, you might have several hundred to thousands of computers from which you want to collect audit events. By default, the servi...
How to Deploy Operations Manager 2007 ACS Reporting
Audit Collection Services (ACS) reporting can be installed in two configurations.
Installing Audit Collection Services ( ACS )
I’m going to make some procedures for ACS. First I’m going to install the audit collection services, after that I’m going to deploy the ACS reporting and las...
Microsoft.interop.security.azroles.dll error when installing opsmgr
Yesterday I wanted to install my second management server on a windows 2003 R2 SP2 machine. I installed all the requirements and ran the prerequisite checker.
Opsmgr agent grayed out on domain controller
Last week I deployed my scom agents on my domain controllers. The installation was succesful and of course I checked the agent proxing checkbox in the admini...
ACS training by SecureVantage
SecureVantage is organizing some free online training arround ACS.
Windows 2008 Opsmgr Management Packs released
The Management Packs for Windows 2008 has finally been released!
File System Management Pack for Opsmgr
Another winner of the System Center Contest is Jaime Correia who submitted the file system Management Pack.
Opsmgr Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler v1.7
Tim McFadden has written a great GUI based tool so you can easily schedule maintenance mode for a server or group of servers!
TempDB Free Space % Opsmgr Issue
I just installed Opsmgr @ one of my clients. Using a default setup. One opsmgr server and one SQL 2005 server.
Opsmgr Exchange Server 2007 Management PackUpdate!
A while ago I posted about the management pack Roadmap and the fact that we where stille waiting for an update of the Exchange 2007 Mp.
Upgrading SCCM 2007 RTM to SCCM 2007 SP1 : Lessons Learned
Today at a customer I ran into some serious problems after applying SP1 for SCCM 2007 .
Dell Management Pack Opsmgr Issue Solved!
I had a client with only Dell servers and moitored by Opsmgr 2007 SP1.
Session downloads from System Center Virtual User Group Meeting
A few days ago the System Center Virtual User Group had their first session.
Collecting Syslogs with Opsmgr
I’ve written a little manual{.} for configuring your opsmgr or Essentials so you can collect and generate alerts based on syslogs.
Opsmgr Management Packs Roadmap
You can find the latest MP road map here.
Data Warehouse Data Retention Policy (dwdatarp.exe) in Opsmgr
A friend of me asked me a couple of days ago how he had to view and configure the datawarehouse data retention policies in Opsmgr. I know it for MOM 2005 but...
Scom Goes cross-platform
Last week Microsoft announced that scom is going cross platform!
Installation of eXc for Opsmgr
I’ve written a little manual for the installation of eXc.
MP Studio 2007 Lite for Opsmgr
Silect has just released another edition of MP studio: MP Studio 2007 Lite.
4 days Opsmgr Training by Rory McCaw
Rory McCaw is coming back in Belgium from June 24 until June 27. He will give two courses:
Techdays Opsmgr Sessions
Rory McCaw has given two session on techdays in Belgium about scom.
List of issues that are fixed in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1
Microsoft has release a list of issues that are fixed in opsmgr SP!
Management Pack Authoring Guide for Opmsgr
The authoring guide has just been released. It’s also an excellent way to look at models, relations, entity’s, objects, etc! greetz, Alkin…(read more)
What’s New in Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1
Service pack 1 has major changes in functionality! Improvements in setup and recovery improvements in user interface and experience improvements in the core ...
Operations Manager Service pack 1
Yesterday Operations Manager Service Pack 1 was released to manufacturing, and will become generally available on Monday Feb 25, 2008! Hopefully this will re...
SCOM 2007 Management Pack Update Update
SCOM 2007 Management Pack Update Update The Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Pack update is an update to the previously released System ...
How tho make an override for the SWAP Disks
How to make an override for the monitor “Logical Disk Free Space” for all the SWAP Disks? Out of the box the swap disks aren’t discovered. Opsmgr knows the a...
System Center Dataprotector Management Pack
Microsoft released this week the DPM management pack for OpsMgr. Feature Bullet Summary: Centrally monitor the health and state of data protection for multip...
How to override Min. Global catalog required in Opsmgr
You can find the procedur to change the min. global catalog required here. Greetz, Alkin…(read more)
Congrats for SCUG.NL
Congratulations for SCUG.NL !! Their first SCUG.NL meeting was great! Well organized, good presentations etc! It was almost a 3 hour drive to zoetermeer from...
Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability
The Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability guide has been updated to include ACS. They have included a nice script that counts the local securit...
Operations Manager 2007 Key Concepts
This guide describes the key concepts required to understand Operations Manager. It describes modeling, how modeling is implemented in Operations Manager, an...
Remote Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide and RelNotes
Brief Description Remote Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide Best practices for deploying Remote Operations Manager 2007 Overview The deployment guide d...
OpsMgr 2007 SP1 Release Candidate Upgrade
The RC for opsmgr 2007sp1 has been released yesterday! You can download it from the connect site . The release notes for the SP1: OpsMgr2007ReleaseNotes.zip ...
Which Opsmgr groups is a server member of ?
Boris Yanushpolsky has written a nice PS script to know what groups a server is member of. Nice work. Grtz, Alkin…(read more)
Best practices to configure overrides in OpsMgr 2007
Microsoft has just release a best practices to use when you configure overrides. Here is a quick summary: Store overrides in a separate MP Do not use the dis...
Network Bandwidth Utilization for the various OpsMgr 2007 Roles
The opsmgr product team just wrote a very nice post about network bandwidth utilization specified per opsmgr 2007 role. They have also post a script that hel...
Uncategorized
MVP renewal!
A few days ago I received the confirmation I got renewed for the 7th time! Really proud to be part of this unique group!
Part 1: Bulk import server locations with PowerShell
For a recent project I had to specify the longitude and latitude for all my servers (about a 1000) to be able to show them on a map.
Powershell Deployment Toolkit failed missing port for sql server
During the validation of PDT I received the following errory saying that the port was missing for my new SQL instances:
Best of MMS 2013
Don’t miss the best System Center event in Belgium of the year! http://scug.be/events/
How to change SCOM reporting to use Kerberos instead of NTLM
One of the Domain admins at one of my customers was complaining about all the NTLM request generated by the scom server to the reporting server. One of the i...
SPF examples
Microsoft just released samples to extend the service managemetn portal and service management API; http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=...
Extended network device monitoring list updated
Microsoft just released and updated list of devices that can be monitored by Operations Manager 2012. OpsMgrr 2012 can monitor network devices that support S...
AEM ADMX File for OpsMgr 2007 R2
Last week I was at a customer to implement AEM.
The System Center Management service terminated with service-specific error %%-2147467259
I had the following issue on one of my servers
Best of MMS is coming: 15 june 2011
For our best of MMS on June 15 we will have a special guest! Chris Childers is coming to Belgium!
Hp bladesystem enclosure monitoring manager requested registry access is not allowed
You need to open the HP bladesystem enclosure monitoring manager as an Administrator. Otherwise you will have the following error:
HP Blade System MP installer does not install the mp file
If you want to use the latest HP blade management pack 1.40 you need to install or upgrade your HP proliant MP first to the same version 1.40.
System Center Advisor Changing the upload frequency
Most of the configuration like changing upload frequency is done in the registry.
System Center Advisor configuring data upload
By default, Advisor will enable the gateway to automatically upload collected data from your server to Advisor.
Using System Center Advisor Management Packs in OpsMgr
System Center Advisor has some extra management packs that are not available for OpsMgr.
System Center Advisor Part 2 Installation
In the previous blogpost I gave you a short overview of System Center Advisor. Let’s have a look at the installation of System Center Advisor.
System Center Roadmap 2011
I’m so excited about the direction that Microsoft is taking with the new System Center products!
4 more speakers from the System Center Product Team at Techdays Belgium
We’ve secured 4 more speakers from the System Center Product Team for Techdays Belgium
The OpsMgr Unleashed authors on Operations Manager 2012
Talk TechNet is about discussing topics and trends in the world of IT Professionals. In our May 6th show we’ll have guests Kerrie Meyler , Cameron Fuller, a...
Save the date! Teched Europe June 25-29 2012 in Amsterdam
Just got an email from Microsoft that Teched Europe will be in Amsterdam this time!
Avicode now in the SMSE and SMDE suite!
It was announced a few weeks ago that Microsoft had acquired AVIcode and now they finaly released a trial version and give an update regarding the new licens...
update Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack
Mircrosoft has released an update of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack version 6.1.7695.0
TechEd BOF Session Proposal Voting
My BOF session has been selected for TechEd. Now it’s tome to vote!
Belgium System Center Day
Scug.be is very excited to annouce our next event. For this occasion we have some top international speakers like Wally Mead, Travis Wright, Jason Buffington...
Fix duplicate relationships for agents to server in Ops DB
Sometimes it can happen that agents are ending up with multiple primary management server relationships. Of course you can only have one primary server relat...
Tech Ed Europe: Vote For The Sessions You Want To See
You have the ability to influence what sessions will be shown at Tech Ed Europe.
Cumulative Update 2 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 Connectors
Microsoft just released Cumulative update 2 for the Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors.
Service Manager Management Pack
Microsoft released the Service Manager 2010 Management Pack. The Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 Management Pack helps you manage your Service M...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack 3rd quarterly update
Microsoft released a week ago the 3rd quarterly update for the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack. You can download it from here http:/...
Belgian Best of MMS: The top 20 “Must Have“ customizations in Operations Manager
This session will look at the 20 most common configuration changes or customizations that we implement in our consulting engagements. At the end of this sess...
Registration for TechEd Europe is open!
Tech∙Ed Europe returns to Berlin this November 8 – 12, for a full week of deep technical education, hands-on-learning and opportunities to connect with Micro...
Community Day 2010
Community Day is back with the Fourth Edition of this annual community event on Microsoft technologies!
Microsoft on What’s Next for Managing Datacenters and the Cloud!
Microsoft is going to invest heavily in Dynamic IT / cloud capabilities that Virtual Machine Manager vNext and Operations Manager vNext will deliver.
Cumulative Update 2 for OpsMgr installation
High Level overview steps:
Cumulative Update 2 Released for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 opsmgr
Microsoft has just released a second cumulative update for opsmgr! More information can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979257
MMS 2010 Keynotes
The MMS 2010 keynotes are available online!
Best of MMS 2010
Hi all,
OpsMgr Management Pack Catalog Certificate not Valid or Expired!
I installed a new OpsMgr environment today and when I wanted to import management packs it seems that the certificate is not valid or trusted.
Operations Manager 2007 Superflows
After the config mgr SuperFlows we now have the OpsMgr 2007 Superflows!
Infront TrendMicro Management Pack
The Infront TrendMicro Management Pack allows customers to proactively monitor their TrendMicro environment. This Management Pack allows for the monitoring o...
The Quest QMX VMware extension is now free via vCenter and vSphere
Quest has announced that the QMX VMware extension is now free via vCenter and vSphere.
MOF 4.0 Foundation Course
Microsoft just announced the beta release of the MOF 4.0 Foundation Course.
MMS 2010
MMS 2010 will be in Las Vegas April 19-23, and registration is now open. The list of planned sessions is available at http://www.mms-2010.com/public/sessions...
OpsMgr 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 1
Our first cumulative update has released for OpsMgr 2007 R2! Cumulative Update 1 contains a number of fixes for the Operations Manager 2007 R2 release. More ...
OpsMgr survey about Management Pack Authoring
Microsoft is conducting a survey about Management Pack Authoring. If you ever wanted to give feedback about the management pack authoring process now is the ...
Server Management Suite Licenses getting more expensive!
Today the System Center Team announced the new capabilities and price changes of the Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) and Server Management Suite Da...
MVP RENEWAL and Happy New year
First of all I wish you all a happy new year!
OpsMgr Management pack APC ISX Central Integration Management Pack
This week I had to implement an APC management pack at a customer site and I will explain how to get it working. This customer is using APC to monitor and co...
OpsMgr : Certificate for this system is not valid when installing Linux agent
Today I ran into some Linux agent deployment issues. I needed to monitor about 20 Redhat Machines . In such an environment environment, Kerberos authenticati...
OpsMgr bug : console crashing when creating an override on cluster resource group monitor
Be aware that there is a bug when you want to create an override on the resource group rollup monitor to change the maintenance mode behavior!
OpsMgr Webconsole Runtime error “Server Error in ‘/’ Application”
Just a little reminder that if you install the OpsMgr web console after the UI console has already been installed you will need to Copy the following files f...
New management packs for OpsMgr in October
Microsoft is working very hard these days and is has released a whole bunch of updated and new management packs this month.
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit
Microsoft just released the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Resource kit. You can download it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9104af8b-ff87-45a1...
OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP version 6.1.7553.0 is Released
Just got an email from Microsoft saying that they just released their first out of band update to the Operations Manager Management Pack! Notice that this up...
Video Interview: Implementing SCOM in a large Belgium Hospital by Alexandre Verkinderen
Alexandre Verkinderen, System Center Operations Manager MVP, talks about the monitoring solution he implemented at AZ Sint Maarten, a large Belgium Hospital....
New Connect site for the OM Community
Hello OM Community,
Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just released an update for the windows server mp. They now support Windows 2008 R2 ! Another nice thing is that finaly you can also display the lo...
Windows Key Management Service MP for Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just released a new KMS mp for opmsgr 2007. Be carefull when importing it via the catalog with the OpsMgr 2007 R2 console. Before importing the mp ...
Proliant Management pack RealtimeMonitors_SNMP.FailedComponent Auto Server Recovery 0
Just imported the HP Proliant management pack for SCOM 2007 and hade a lot of servers in warning state even if nothing was wrong in the Insight homepage.
Live maps V4 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available
Savision has just released a major now version of Live Maps designed specifically for System Center Operations Manager R2!
Cleaning the Localizedtext Table after SCOM upgrade to SCOM 2007 R2
After upgrading your OpsMgr 2007 components and upgrading your SQL environment to SQL Server 2008, you will need to run some post installation steps. These p...
Export SQL reports in PDF landscape
I had to create some reports for a customer this week and the layout of the report didn’t satisfied my client. The reports are exported in portrait format an...
Dell 4.0 hardware MP is released for Opsmgr 2007 SP1 and R2
Early this week Dell released a major update to their OpsMgr management pack with their 4.0 version. I strongly encourage you to check out this MP as there ...
Technet Events
In the comming weeks Microsoft Belgium is hosting some very interesting Technet events.
TrendMicro Management pack for Opsmgr 2007 R2
I’m develloping a native TrendMicro management pack for Opsmgr 2007 R2 at the moment. I wanted to make this a community MP so any feedback is welcome! Or if ...
SCUG.BE session on Service Manager
Service Manager: From Re-active to Pro-active**
System Center User Group Netherlands Summer Night
Our friends and colleagues from the Nederlands are organizing a System Center Summer Night! The Belgium System Center User Group will also be there to visit ...
Community Day Session: Setting up & Configuring SQL Server to support your SCCM & SCOM environment
Kim Oppalfens and I did a session at community day together:
System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Transition to System Management Suite Datacenter
As mentioned in here the System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Licensing has changed since today. Microsoft has developed a transition path from ...
Third MVP awarded in the User group
I’m very proud to announce that one of the co-founders of the user-group and friend Kenny Buntinx has been awarded with the prestigious MVP award System Cent...
HP EVA performance management pack V2 for Opsmgr
In a previous blogpost I already mentioned that Alain Cote has developped a HP EVA performance management pack.
Known issues with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just published a known issue with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007.
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 SCW Roles and Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2008
Microsoft released a Operations Manager 2007 R2 SCW Roles and Hardening guide help protect and harden your Operations Manager 2007 R2 environment.
HP EVA management pack
Alain Côté has written his own HP EVA management pack! This Management pack will monitor the performance of an HP EVA, the official HP Storage MP only does ...
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
The new Exchange Server 2007 management pack for Opsmgr 2007 R2 is now RTM and available from the mp catalog!
Opsmgr Performance problems with healthservice on agents
On some occasions the scom agent can cause a lot of performance issues on the servers. Here I will describe some steps I take when I have performance problem...
Collect Processor time % of the HealthService.exe of your agents
If you have performance problems on your agents it’s probably the healthservice.exe that’s taking a lot of processor time %. At the moment only the processor...
Session Recording Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment.
SESSION RECORDING Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment
Interview with Nigel Cain at Techdays 2009 in Antwerp on SCSM
At Techdays 2009 in Antwerp we interviewed Nigel Cain ( Program Manager – Operations and Service Management group) and asked him some questions on System Cen...
Opsmgr DB Create wizard System.InvalidOperationException
Today I wanted to install my OperationsmanagerDB on my SQL cluster 2005 SP2 actif-passive.
Optimizing the performance of your Opsmgr Console and reducing DB size
I had troubles with the Opmsgr Console performance at serveral clients.
savision Live maps for Opsmgr 2007
I’ve just done some big implementations of Savision Live maps and I’ve to addmit…I just love it!
Upgrading Opsmgr 2007 R2 RC consoles to Opsmgr 2007 R2 RTM
When you want to start upgrading your consoles from the opmsgr 2007 R2 RC version to the Opsmgr 2007 R2 RTM version be carefull with:
Upgrade Opsmgr 2007 R2 RC to Opsmgr 2007 R2 RTM
I’ve several production environmnets running the Opmsgr 2007 R2 Release Candidate version. Now that the Opsmgr 2007 R2 Rtm is available I wanted to test the ...
Opsmgr on Social Forum!
We just moved from the old news servers to the new social forum platform!
SCOM 2007 R2 is RTM!
SCOM 2007 R2 is RTM!
Opsmgr Data Warehouse failed to enumerate database components to be deployed
Today I ran into this issue:
Third Edition of Microsoft Community Day !!
Community Day is back again, are you ready for our Third Edition of Microsoft Community Day?
Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center
Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center (ICE-SC) is the first extensive solution that provides s...
Visio add-in for System Center Operations Manager
Microsoft just released a new Visio add-in for System Center Operations Manager! Go get it on the Connect Site!
IIS 7 management pack hotfix
As mentioned on the MOM team blog there was a problem with the IIS 7 Managemenent pack. After importing the Windows Server 2008 Internet Information Services...
Biwug session changed
Last minute change!
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Release Candidate available !
Yesterday, Microsoft released the OpsMgr R2 RC on their connect website. It’s version 6.1.7043.0 and is 1.277,26 MB in size !
Biwug & Scug Session: Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment
Title: Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment.
RMS grayed out and server discovery failed
After I installed my RMS and OpsmgrDB on two different servers my root management server went gray and every 10 minutes or so I receive an alert stating the ...
TechDays 2009 Highlights
Join us for the TechDays 2009 </p> Join us on March 10-12, 09 for the most important ...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Management Pack for Opsmgr 2007
Finally the SCVMM MP for Opsmgr 2007 with REPORTS is released!!
Alert : Check out the MSCommunity.be landing page
MSCommunity.be is the landing page for the Belgian Microsoft community. The purpose of this site is giving you an overview of all the events being organized ...
Opsmgr Service Level Dashboard for Exchange 2007
It is possible to create custom reports for Exchange 2007 using the Service Level Dashboard Solution Accelerator and the Exchange 2007 Management Pack. The O...
Native DPM 2007 managment pack for opsmgr
Microsoft released today the new native DPM 2007 management pack for Opmsgr.
TechDays 2009 in March
Whether you’re a developer, IT pro or designer: It is your thoughts, knowledge and ideas that shape the digital world. Microsoft supports you with platforms ...
MVP Award: System Center Operations Manager
I’m very proud to announce that Microsoft has awarded me with the MVP title “System Center Operations Manager” !! We now have 2 MVP’s in the user group!
The SQL Server Service Broker for the current Opsmgr database is not enabled
Yesterday I came accros this error:
Opsmgr 2007 R2 Beta1 Released!
Just got an email from Microsoft to announce that the Opsmgr 2007 R2 Beta available is on the connect site. Will post testing results soon!
Network aware service management with EMC Smart and Opsmgr
Stefan Stranger found an interesting video on network aware service management with the integration solution of emc smart and opsmgr.
Day 2 of teched 2008 Barcelona
At day 2 one of the sessions I followed covered the future of opsmgr. They announced that at the end of this month the beta of Opsmgr R2 will be available, R...
day 5
reporting 2008 no iis sharepoint integration sql 2005 and 208 side by side</ul>
day 4
cross platform Half 2009 rtm architecture building en later extra’s mp linux not comptaible with ...
Day 3 of teched Barcelona
acs powershell script to enable for groups enableforwarding.ps1 windows 2008 end of the year in v...
First day at teched Barcelona
I’m now at teched Barcelona and my first impressions? WOOOOW! Everything is very well organized, free wifi, everything is taken care off you even get free me...
Define a Health Criteria for your web application Monitor Part III
W’re almost at the end! 🙂 Only 3 steps left. First we have to define a healt criteria for our web appliction and after that we can create our distributed app...
Configuring the Service Level Dashboard Part V
After you create your monitors and distributed applications, you must take some additional steps to configure the Service Level Dashboard group and service l...
Creating the Distributed Application Models to Drive the Service Level Dashboard Part IV
The distributed application model interface provides a flexible way to customize the Service Level Dashboard display to your needs. The Service Level Dashboa...
Service Level Dashboard Part VI
Ok, so we finally have our service level dashboard. Let’s see some reports
Add a recording to an existing Web Application object Part II
First you will have to create a web application monitor. See my previous post on how to
Create a Web Application Monitor in opsmgr Part I
At the moment I’m testing web application monitoring, service level dashboard, etc. So the upcoming posts will handle on how to set up a web application moni...
Security Auditing & ACS Optimization Session recording
On September 16th we got a session on Security Auditing & ACS Optimization by Jeremiah Beckett from Securevantage.
Changing the ACS DataRetention Period for Opsmgr
Changing the Audit Collection Service DataRetention Period (based on the info found on the technet site)
Operations Manager/SSAS and PerformancePoint Scorecards
Daniel Savage posted on the team blog that the performancePoint team released a sample solution that shows how to build cubes from the Operations Manager DW...
Configuration of Opsmgr Exchange 2007 management pack
Here are some guidelines if you want to import the Exchange 2007 management pack in your scom environment:
ACS noise filter
When you install ACS you will get a ton of events! Not all events are relevant for your environment. Securevantage has written a nice noisefilter guide. This...
enable audit collection on opsmgr agents
Depending on your auditing needs, you might have several hundred to thousands of computers from which you want to collect audit events. By default, the servi...
How to Deploy Operations Manager 2007 ACS Reporting
Audit Collection Services (ACS) reporting can be installed in two configurations.
Installing Audit Collection Services ( ACS )
I’m going to make some procedures for ACS. First I’m going to install the audit collection services, after that I’m going to deploy the ACS reporting and las...
Microsoft.interop.security.azroles.dll error when installing opsmgr
Yesterday I wanted to install my second management server on a windows 2003 R2 SP2 machine. I installed all the requirements and ran the prerequisite checker.
Opsmgr agent grayed out on domain controller
Last week I deployed my scom agents on my domain controllers. The installation was succesful and of course I checked the agent proxing checkbox in the admini...
ACS training by SecureVantage
SecureVantage is organizing some free online training arround ACS.
Windows 2008 Opsmgr Management Packs released
The Management Packs for Windows 2008 has finally been released!
File System Management Pack for Opsmgr
Another winner of the System Center Contest is Jaime Correia who submitted the file system Management Pack.
Opsmgr Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler v1.7
Tim McFadden has written a great GUI based tool so you can easily schedule maintenance mode for a server or group of servers!
TempDB Free Space % Opsmgr Issue
I just installed Opsmgr @ one of my clients. Using a default setup. One opsmgr server and one SQL 2005 server.
Opsmgr Exchange Server 2007 Management PackUpdate!
A while ago I posted about the management pack Roadmap and the fact that we where stille waiting for an update of the Exchange 2007 Mp.
Upgrading SCCM 2007 RTM to SCCM 2007 SP1 : Lessons Learned
Today at a customer I ran into some serious problems after applying SP1 for SCCM 2007 .
Dell Management Pack Opsmgr Issue Solved!
I had a client with only Dell servers and moitored by Opsmgr 2007 SP1.
Session downloads from System Center Virtual User Group Meeting
A few days ago the System Center Virtual User Group had their first session.
Collecting Syslogs with Opsmgr
I’ve written a little manual{.} for configuring your opsmgr or Essentials so you can collect and generate alerts based on syslogs.
Opsmgr Management Packs Roadmap
You can find the latest MP road map here.
Data Warehouse Data Retention Policy (dwdatarp.exe) in Opsmgr
A friend of me asked me a couple of days ago how he had to view and configure the datawarehouse data retention policies in Opsmgr. I know it for MOM 2005 but...
Scom Goes cross-platform
Last week Microsoft announced that scom is going cross platform!
Installation of eXc for Opsmgr
I’ve written a little manual for the installation of eXc.
MP Studio 2007 Lite for Opsmgr
Silect has just released another edition of MP studio: MP Studio 2007 Lite.
4 days Opsmgr Training by Rory McCaw
Rory McCaw is coming back in Belgium from June 24 until June 27. He will give two courses:
Techdays Opsmgr Sessions
Rory McCaw has given two session on techdays in Belgium about scom.
List of issues that are fixed in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1
Microsoft has release a list of issues that are fixed in opsmgr SP!
Management Pack Authoring Guide for Opmsgr
The authoring guide has just been released. It’s also an excellent way to look at models, relations, entity’s, objects, etc! greetz, Alkin…(read more)
What’s New in Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1
Service pack 1 has major changes in functionality! Improvements in setup and recovery improvements in user interface and experience improvements in the core ...
Operations Manager Service pack 1
Yesterday Operations Manager Service Pack 1 was released to manufacturing, and will become generally available on Monday Feb 25, 2008! Hopefully this will re...
SCOM 2007 Management Pack Update Update
SCOM 2007 Management Pack Update Update The Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Pack update is an update to the previously released System ...
How tho make an override for the SWAP Disks
How to make an override for the monitor “Logical Disk Free Space” for all the SWAP Disks? Out of the box the swap disks aren’t discovered. Opsmgr knows the a...
System Center Dataprotector Management Pack
Microsoft released this week the DPM management pack for OpsMgr. Feature Bullet Summary: Centrally monitor the health and state of data protection for multip...
How to override Min. Global catalog required in Opsmgr
You can find the procedur to change the min. global catalog required here. Greetz, Alkin…(read more)
Congrats for SCUG.NL
Congratulations for SCUG.NL !! Their first SCUG.NL meeting was great! Well organized, good presentations etc! It was almost a 3 hour drive to zoetermeer from...
Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability
The Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability guide has been updated to include ACS. They have included a nice script that counts the local securit...
Operations Manager 2007 Key Concepts
This guide describes the key concepts required to understand Operations Manager. It describes modeling, how modeling is implemented in Operations Manager, an...
Remote Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide and RelNotes
Brief Description Remote Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide Best practices for deploying Remote Operations Manager 2007 Overview The deployment guide d...
OpsMgr 2007 SP1 Release Candidate Upgrade
The RC for opsmgr 2007sp1 has been released yesterday! You can download it from the connect site . The release notes for the SP1: OpsMgr2007ReleaseNotes.zip ...
Which Opsmgr groups is a server member of ?
Boris Yanushpolsky has written a nice PS script to know what groups a server is member of. Nice work. Grtz, Alkin…(read more)
Best practices to configure overrides in OpsMgr 2007
Microsoft has just release a best practices to use when you configure overrides. Here is a quick summary: Store overrides in a separate MP Do not use the dis...
Network Bandwidth Utilization for the various OpsMgr 2007 Roles
The opsmgr product team just wrote a very nice post about network bandwidth utilization specified per opsmgr 2007 role. They have also post a script that hel...
Azure
Create an Automatic Service Principal Azure RM Service Connection in Azure DevOps via Azure CLI
With more and more of our development and infrastructure projects being built and released via Azure DevOps, I find myself creating a few DevOps projects whi...
The curious case of an Azure Application Gateway showing no metrics and logs
This is the curious case of an Azure Application Gateway showing no metrics and logs at all. Even thought this was one of the main customer’s production Appl...
Publish the new Azure API Management Service Developer Portal behind an Application Gateway
There are currently 2 developer portals for the Azure API Management service: a legacy portal and the new portal experience. We deployed our Azure APIM insta...
Setting an Azure AD group to Azure SQL Database with ARM templates
I was recently looking at a way to automatically set an Azure AD group as the SQL admin for our Azure SQL databases with ARM tempplates. We use SQL authentic...
New Book: Inside Azure Management V4
Super proud to announce that our new book Inside Azure Management V4 has been released! This book is the 4th edition and covers a broad range of Azure Manage...
Define a hierarchical structure for your Azure DevOps branches
I like my Azure DevOps branches to be well structured and well named.
Use Azure DevOps Self Hosted agents with Azure App Service access restrictions
By default, when you deploy a new Azure WebApp, Function app or API app it will be publicly available to the internet. For the current customer I’m working o...
Use Azure DevOps pipelines for continuous delivery of APIs to Azure API Management Service
One of my customers is on a journey to re-architect old on-premises web applications to more modern webApps using APIs. All APIs should use Azure DevOps CI/C...
Enable Azure AD authentication for API Management Service Developer Portal
We use Azure Api Management Service (APIM) quite a lot and recently I have been looking at the new APIM Developer portal and how to enable Azure Active Direc...
Dynamically create README Files from Azure DevOps Pipeline and Commit to Repository
Bernie White has a Powershell Module (PSDocs) that can generate mark down files (*.md) and Stefan Stranger’s blog post shows us how to upload these to Azure ...
Saving runtime variables to Azure DevOps Variable Groups
We use ARM outputs quite extensively in our Azure DevOps pipelines. At times you may need to get outputs from previous steps and store them as variables to b...
Securing your Azure Functions App with API Management
This article will show you how to use an Azure Managed Identity to authenticate against an Azure Functions app that is exposed through Azure API Management.
Debugging Windows Virtual Desktop Deployment Issues
This blog post is a part of a Windows Virtual Desktop series. In our last blog post we succesfully deployed WVD but what I didn’t cover was the few issues I ...
Installing Windows Virtual Desktop
Windows Virtual Desktop (or WVD) was finally released a few weeks back. This blog post will be part of a series of Windows Virtual Desktop related posts.
Move Azure File share backups to other Recovery Vault
Azure Backup let’s you backup Azure File shares which is currently in preview. This article will describe how to move your Azure File share to another Recove...
Configure Azure Storage Archive Tier
Lately I had to setup Azure Archive storage for one of my customers. Azure Archive Storage was launched in 2017 and recently Microsoft announced a 50% price ...
Enable Azure NSG Flow and Traffic Analytics
A while back I wrote a blog post on how to enable NSG flow and traffic analytics in bulk for all your NSGs.
Configure regional settings on Azure Virtual Machines
By default every Windows virtual machine that you deploy in Azure from the marketplace will be deployed using US regional settings. So the timezone, time for...
Cross subscription VNET peering deployment with Azure Blueprints
A common design pattern in Azure is the Hub and Spoke topology as described here. In this blog post I will describe how you can deploy a spoke environment in...
Azure API Management Consumption Tier
Microsoft has announced a new Azure API Management Consumption tier. This new tier aligns with serverless architecture principles that includes automated sca...
Real Time Twitter sentiment analysis with Azure Cognitive Services
I was recently playing with Azure Cognitive Services and wanted to test Sentiment Analysis of Twitter. In this blog post I will go through how to setup the d...
Move Managed Disks to another subscription
It is strongly recommended to use managed disks when deploying virtual machines in Azure. But one of the downsides of managed disks is that you are unable to...
Azure Files Updates from Ignite
Microsoft announced significant improvements to Azure Files at Ignite 2018 – higher scale, more IOPS, more throughput, lower latency, better security, and...
Azure Disks Ignite Updates
Microsoft announced a series of exciting new offerings on Azure Disks at Ignite Conference today. Here is a quick summary of the Ignite releases:
How to use Azure CDN for WordPress
In this blogpost I will show you how you can use Azure CDN to improve the performance of your WordPress site. I’m running WordPress for my blog and have a lo...
Getting started with the Azure Iot DevKit
I finally got my hands on some Azure IoT Developer kits! In this blogpost I will cover how to get started with the Devkit, make sure it’s connected to the in...
Enabling Azure Network Security Group (NSG) flow logging in bulk
As we speak one of my customers is looking into using Azure Network Watcher for its network auditing and packet logging capabilities. Network Security Group ...
Deploying Azure Resource Policies 2: Limit Azure Regions
This blogpost is the second blogpost of applying governance in Azure.
Microsoft PowerApps and inner join 2 sql tables
Since I was testing and discovering Microsoft PowerApps I wanted to create a new app that would be able to create new invoices and expenses from my mobile p...
MVP award renewed
Hi everyone,
Step by Step guide on installing the Azure Usage and Billing Insights (AUBI) Portal
A lot of my customers are struggling with the billing part of Azure. They need a convenient way to review and visualize what they have consumed in Azure. I d...
New OMS Calculator
Last year I wrote about the OMS calculator that was just released. Now that the OMS licenses has changed, Microsoft updated the calculator and released a new...
Use Power BI to make stunning Twitter campaign dashboards
As you all probably know by now, I’m a big fan of Power BI as it’s really a powerfull solution to analyze and visualize your data. I’m also a Twitter fan, so...
Retrieve Azure AAD user information with Azure Functions and publish it into PowerBI
Few days ago I had a requirement to retrieve user information from Azure Active Directory and publish the data into a Power BI dashboard.
What’s new in Azure Stack Technical Preview 2
Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 has just been released at Ignite!! This release provides new features for both tenants and administrators.
Add a custom image to Azure Stack
In this blog post I will explain how you can add multiple custom images to Azure Stack.
Power BI for SCSM
As part of delivering our managed services at cubesys we are using System Center Service Manager for incident logging and request management. We wanted to en...
Configuring Azure SQL DB Active-Geo replication
One of my customers is looking into migrating his SQL environment to Azure SQL DB. When migrating to a new platform, business continuity is key. When looking...
New step in my career…. down under!
I’m so excited that I can finally speak about the next big step in my career…and it’s going to be down under!
Azure Subscriptions best practices
To be able to use all the stuff that Azure offers you will need a Subscription. If you are on your own or are just testing the different Azure capabilities i...
System Center Universe Asia Pacific is coming!
The biggest Cloud and Datacenter event in Asia is back!
7th MVP renewal!
Today, January 1st like every year is a very big day for all January MVP’s as we get to know if we are renewed for another year or not!
Azure locations, regions, datacenters, fault domains, update domains, clusters, availability sets??
I was at a conference couple of weeks and we were discussing the latest improvements in Azure geo-redundancy across different locations…or was it regions or ...
What is Microsoft Azure Stack?
A lot is happening those days on the Microsoft public and private cloud front. Microsoft announced Azure stack at Ignite in Chigaco but I still see a lot of ...
SQL Server 2014 AlwaysOn on Massive G-series Azure VMs
In this blog post I’m going to test the recent availability of the massive G-Series VMs and ability to automate High Availability for SQL 2014. The fact tha...
Optimize Azure website performance
A couple of weeks ago I moved my blog to a new wordpress site hosted in Azure. The deployment of the WordPress website was very smooth but I was not happy ab...
MVP renewal!
A few days ago I received the confirmation I got renewed for the 7th time! Really proud to be part of this unique group!
Part 1: How to manage your clouds with Facebook
At SystemCenter Universe Asia I showcased how you can manage your cloud from Facebook:
Powershell Deployment Toolkit and WAP
The latest publicly available PDT version 2.5.270 now includes besides System Center 2012 R2 also Windows Azure Pack.
Powershell
Enable Azure NSG Flow and Traffic Analytics
A while back I wrote a blog post on how to enable NSG flow and traffic analytics in bulk for all your NSGs.
Configure regional settings on Azure Virtual Machines
By default every Windows virtual machine that you deploy in Azure from the marketplace will be deployed using US regional settings. So the timezone, time for...
Cross subscription VNET peering deployment with Azure Blueprints
A common design pattern in Azure is the Hub and Spoke topology as described here. In this blog post I will describe how you can deploy a spoke environment in...
Step by Step guide on installing the Azure Usage and Billing Insights (AUBI) Portal
A lot of my customers are struggling with the billing part of Azure. They need a convenient way to review and visualize what they have consumed in Azure. I d...
Retrieve Azure AAD user information with Azure Functions and publish it into PowerBI
Few days ago I had a requirement to retrieve user information from Azure Active Directory and publish the data into a Power BI dashboard.
Bulk migrate virtual machines after Hyper-V replication
As discussed in one of my previous blog posts I’m now working on a migration project to move virtual machines from one datacenter to another datacenter. I’m ...
Create VMM Clouds in bulk with PowerShell
As you might remember from my previous blog post I’m working now on a Hyper-V migration project where I couldn’t reuse the old VMM server. So besides re-crea...
Part 1: Bulk import server locations with PowerShell
For a recent project I had to specify the longitude and latitude for all my servers (about a 1000) to be able to show them on a map.
Part 1: How to manage your clouds with Facebook
At SystemCenter Universe Asia I showcased how you can manage your cloud from Facebook:
Install OpsMgr Agent-less remotely with Powershell
In our previous post we installed the OpsMgr agent remotely with Poweshell and enabled agent proxying. Now we are going to monitor a server agentless via Pow...
Install OpsMgr Agent remotely with Powershell
As you are aware by now I’m creating a series of Powershell automation activities to automate some System Center installation tasks. Below you can find a Pow...
Configure users and Roles in App Controller with Powershell
I had to configure remotely some users and Roles in App controller with Powershell. You can find a lot of all App Controller CMDLets here http://technet.mic...
WAP
New step in my career…. down under!
I’m so excited that I can finally speak about the next big step in my career…and it’s going to be down under!
What is Microsoft Azure Stack?
A lot is happening those days on the Microsoft public and private cloud front. Microsoft announced Azure stack at Ignite in Chigaco but I still see a lot of ...
Bulk migrate virtual machines after Hyper-V replication
As discussed in one of my previous blog posts I’m now working on a migration project to move virtual machines from one datacenter to another datacenter. I’m ...
Create VMM Clouds in bulk with PowerShell
As you might remember from my previous blog post I’m working now on a Hyper-V migration project where I couldn’t reuse the old VMM server. So besides re-crea...
Windows Azure Pack UR6
Microsoft just send out their Windows Azure pack Newsletter to announce that UR6 will be available as of April 28! If you didn’t received the latest newslett...
Enable Hyper-V Replica for all virtual machines in a specific Cloud
As discussed in my previous blog post I’m now working on a migration project to move virtual machines from one datacenter to another datacenter. I’m using Hy...
Configurable Quotas for Windows Azure Pack Web Site Plans
After setting up Windows Azure Pack Web Sites, you can create sets of offerings (or “plans”) for the tenant customers who will use your web site hosting serv...
Configure IP filtering for Windows Azure Pack Websites
Setting an IP filter is very important because one of the easiest ways to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack is to launch the attack from inside the ser...
Technological Underpinnings of a Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service infrastructure
If you are looking at Microsoft Infrastructure as a service from a Service provider perspective or Enterprise the following is a must read!
OMS
New OMS Calculator
Last year I wrote about the OMS calculator that was just released. Now that the OMS licenses has changed, Microsoft updated the calculator and released a new...
System Center Universe Asia Pacific is coming!
The biggest Cloud and Datacenter event in Asia is back!
OMS Calculator
Microsoft released an OMS calculator to budget OMS licenses and commitment needed to use OMS. It also compares the two purchasing options of add-on to System...
MAS
Add a custom image to Azure Stack
In this blog post I will explain how you can add multiple custom images to Azure Stack.
What is Microsoft Azure Stack?
A lot is happening those days on the Microsoft public and private cloud front. Microsoft announced Azure stack at Ignite in Chigaco but I still see a lot of ...
Windows Virtual Desktop
Debugging Windows Virtual Desktop Deployment Issues
This blog post is a part of a Windows Virtual Desktop series. In our last blog post we succesfully deployed WVD but what I didn’t cover was the few issues I ...
Installing Windows Virtual Desktop
Windows Virtual Desktop (or WVD) was finally released a few weeks back. This blog post will be part of a series of Windows Virtual Desktop related posts.
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Getting started with the Azure Iot DevKit
I finally got my hands on some Azure IoT Developer kits! In this blogpost I will cover how to get started with the Devkit, make sure it’s connected to the in...