By request, here’s a rundown on the process in both products…
In the days of MOM 2005, there was a daily process to discover computers and deployment the MOM agent. This was configurable, but allowed MOM administrators to put discovery on auto-pilot, so to speak. How this works in current versions today depends on whether you [...]
Ever wished you had a desktop shortcut you could use to put groups in and out of maintenance mode whenever you needed to? I think simple prompts for input make a script more convenient than having to type out parameters names and values.
This is something I wanted for my lab, so I set out to [...]
While the steps for how to enable Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) integration between Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr) and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) are well-documented at this point, I’d yet to find anyone who had attempted to enable PRO between System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE) and SCVMM. It seemed to me that since the SCE [...]
I’ve been working with Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) quite a bit, and wanted to share some tips around optimization and automation, as well as some SCVMM / VMware VI3 comparisons, especially where Powershell is concerned. Today, I wanted to start off with some interesting background and an SCVMM Powershell tip I [...]
SecureVantage is a company I am fond of because of their many contributions of time and resources to the OpsMgr community. I recently took a look at version 1.1 of the SecureVantage ACS Resource Kit, and noticed a couple of tools that just about everyone could use…in some cases even if you do not have Audit [...]
