Category Archives: Community

We now have TechNet Forums!

Be sure to add them to your list of places to check for all things Operations manager related http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager
As usual, Anders is the first post over there!
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Connect suggestion: Lets make custom reporting easier

I’ve added a suggestion on Connect, #436472, that I think would really assist with the creation of custom reports. In HP’s System Insight Manager, when you generate a report for something, like number of CPUs per server, at the very bottom of the report is a link that says “Show SQL query used to generate [...]

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System Center VUG today & The new Google

Scott Moss shot me an IM a little bit ago to remind me about the System Center Virtual User Group that’s happening today (November 21st, 2008) at 1:00 PM Central time. Here’s the ClickToAttend.Com Link to the event - feel free to add this to your Google Calendar.
Speaking of Google!
Google is slowly rolling out new [...]

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Coming Soon: New Pavleck.NET Here Now: OpsMgr Wiki

As I add more and more things to this site, Wordpress ceases to be able to properly handle it all - it’s time to move up to a more suitable CMS. So upon the advice of fellow #powershell member Sepeck, I’m moving it all over to a nice and shiny Drupal install.
With a proper CMS, [...]

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Operations Manager: From Start to Finish

I’ve never had a ‘proper’ test/development environment for System Center products. I’ve used both client systems and VMs I’d spin up through VirtualBox. That will be changing.
I placed an order a few days ago for a new server - featuring a 2.8Ghz Quad core Xeon and 12GB of ram, it will begin a brand new [...]

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Reminder: System Center Virtual User Group Meeting 2, PowerScripting LIVE tonight

Two awesome events are happening tonight. I’ll be at both, come join me!
The first is the second meeting of the System Center Virtual User Group - Register to attend.
It begins 7pm CST (1am GMT) and the agenda is:
7:00PM-7:10PM: Introduction - Pete Zerger (Of SystemCenterForum.org)
7:10PM-7:40PM: Steve Rachui - Targeting in Operations Mananger 2007.
7:40PM-8:10PM: Cameron Fuller - [...]

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Not sitting on my laurels.

It’s been awhile. I’ve actually been terribly busy at my current client, implementing and fine-tuning my Alert Resolution State notification workflow. I’m currently expanding it to hold a few dozen different teams, as well as creating PropertyBags to send performance data (Number of alerts changed per category, total time script ran, total alerts, etc) as [...]

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Let’s get the community going

Granted, as SCOM people we already have a lot of places available to us. There’s the newsgroups, SystemCenterForum.Org, MOMCommunity.Com, the MS community, MyITForum, FAQShop, and the whole army of bloggers - but I can’t find somewhere I can’t get live help, bounce ideas off of people, etc. Sure, I have friends on various IM programs [...]

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Great list of SCOM & MOM Bloggers

Ian Blyth of the System Center Technologies blog has put together a quite extensive list of MOM & SCOM bloggers. I encourage you to check em out and add their feeds to your feed reader - and to make it even easier on you, I’ve created 4 OPML feeds for you to choose from. They’ve [...]

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