Stefan Stranger's Weblog - Manage your IT Infrastructure
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Savision ready for Microsoft Teched Orlando
Today I got an email from Douwe and Dennis from Savision with their first impression on TechEd...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 06/10/2008
New System Center Branding
The System Center products have a new logo. Check out the Microsoft System Center Home Page
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 06/04/2008
New version of System Center Content Search Gadget
Chris Scoville has created a new version of the System Center Content Gadget. This is one of the...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 06/04/2008
Microsoft Product Support Lifecycle for MOM 2005
Now OpsMgr 2007 is released for almost a year you may want to know what the Product Support...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 06/04/2008
Sysinternals tools are now available via a Live service
Source: Doug Finke and Marc van Orsouw The Sysinternals tools are now accessible using a direct UNC...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 06/01/2008
Management Packs Guides Online
Source Jeanie Decker and Raymond Chou "The Management Pack Guide library is now live on...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/30/2008
Passed OpsMgr Configuring Exam (070-400)
Today I did my Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Configuring Exam and passed with a score...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/29/2008
Management Pack for SAP Monitoring
Source: RealTech REALTECH's newly developed Management Pack for SAP Monitoring is one of the first...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/28/2008
New Updates for Management Packs
WSS 2.0 (2003) Management Pack. Release date: /27/2008. https://tinyurl.com/6ftfmy Terminal Services...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/27/2008
Evaluation of SCCP 2007 by Ian Blyth
Source: Ian Blyth Ian gives a clear evaluation of System Center Capacity Planner for OpsMgr 2007....
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/27/2008
Update: OpsMgr 2007 Toolbox
I’ve updated my OpsMgr 2007 Toolbox with the Windows PowerShell Scriptomatic from Ed Wilson,...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/26/2008
What is Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)?
Did you hear about Pro Packs or Pro Tips lately? And do you know what they are? I saw this question...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/25/2008
PowerShell Scriptomatic
Ed Wilson has created a Scriptomatic PowerShell Version, which you can download here. This...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/20/2008
Viewing OpsMgr Eventlogs on remote computer
Source: The Manageability Team Blog Jeevan Bisht has written a “utility” that lets you...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/19/2008
OLE DB Data Source MP Template connection strings
Operations Manager 2007 comes with several standard management pack templates. You can use these...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/19/2008
Removing the Operations Manager 2007 Data Warehouse
During some commandline installation testing I accidentally installed the OpsMgr Data Warehouse in a...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/15/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Parameters Explained
Some time ago I showed you can use PowerShell to create Events for OpsMgr 2007. And according to the...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/13/2008
RSS2Twitter Part 2
Thanks to Jeremy Pavleck I found out that Twitterfeed is much more efficient than using a PowerShell...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/13/2008
RSS2Twitter PowerShell script
As you might have noticed I’ve been using Twitter quite often lately. On my previous weblog I...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/13/2008
Identifying source cause of excess resource consumption
Source: System Center Forum “When CPU and memory resource consumption are running at or near...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/13/2008
Started MPNotifier on Twitter
I already posted an article on using Twitter and now I’ve create a MPNotifier Twitter account....
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
My Windows Live Search Page
Description Windows Live Search Macro Searches all OpsMgr RSSfeed I'm subscribed to. Limited to 30...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Moved my weblog to Technet Blogs
People, Today I started to move my weblog (https://weblog.stranger.nl) to a Microsoft hosted weblog...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Blogroll
OPML exported from Outlook Abhishek's PowerShell Blog Advisec Blog All Backed Up Andrzej's "IT...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
New version of PowerShell Event Creator for Operations Manager 2007
Some month ago I created a PowerShell Event Creator and quite some people liked what I did ;-) Now...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
New PowerShell Event Creator for Operations Manager 2007
Did you remember the Event Creator for MOM 2005 which was available in the Resource Kit? You could...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Documentation
Source: Microsoft Download Center Overview This download contains the following documentation for...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Service Level Dashboard for Operations Manager
Source: Operations Manager Product Team Blog The Service Level Dashboard for Operations Manager 2007...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Operations Manager 2007 Capacity Planning Model released for System Center Capacity Planner 2007
Source: Clive Eastwood The capacity planning model for OpsMgr07 has now been released for SCCP 2007....
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
OpsMgr 2007 Design Tips from the Field
Source: Raymond Chou Raymond has posted an article about some Design Tips for OpsMgr 2007. I totally...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Silect MP Studio Lite vs MPViewer
Feature MP Studio Lite MPViewer Register Management Groups 1 Group n.a. Multiple views of Management...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Extending the System Center Content Search Windows Gadget
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the System Center Content Search Windows Gadget. This gadget...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Microsoft Cross-Platform Extentions
BARRY SHILMOVER: “So as you look over on the left, the box on the top is your Operations...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Free download of Silects MP Studio Lite
Source: System Center Forum “Silect Studio has delivered for the Operations Manager community...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
New OpsMgr Beta Downloads from Microsoft Connect
On MMS they announced System Center Operations Manager 2007 Platform Extensions and Connectors and...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Not at MMS what now?
So if you are not at MMS in Las Vegas like me what to do if you want follow what is going on in the...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
OpsMgr Authoring Console available for download
Source: Operations Manager Product Team Blog The System Center Management Pack Authoring Console...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Secure Vantage Security Management Pack Templates
Source: Secure Vantage Team Blog I was lucky enough to get a preview of Secure Vantage Security...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
OpsMgr 2007 DB sizes. Which calculator should I use?
Source: Ian Blyth – System Center Technologies Ian has published an article about calculating...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
System Center Content Search Windows Gadget
Source: Techlog This gadget makes it easier to find help for Microsoft System Center products...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Input asked about OpsMgr Cluster MP
Source: OpsMgr++ Boris Yanushpolsky is asking about your experiences with the new released Windows...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Mother of all OpsMgr lists
Source: Ian Blyth Ian was kind enough to put a list together with all kinds of info on OpsMgr 2007....
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
New version Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability Whitepaper
Source: Microsoft Download Center There is a new updated version of the Operations Manager 2007...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
First impression of Security Top Alerts MP (STAMP) from Secure Vantage
Secure Vantage is offering a free download of their Security Top Alerts Management Pack (STAMP)....
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Keep your VHD files as defragmented as possible
I’ve build a new virtual OpsMgr 2007 SP1 test environment and wanted to optimize the...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Introduction to the Microsoft.com Engineering Operations Team
Source: Microsoft Operations "The Microsoft.com Operations Team is pleased to announce the...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
Why not use Twitter as MP Notifier?
I’m trying to use Twitter more and more and why should not we use it for notifying about new...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed errata
Last I finally got my System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed book delivered at home and...
Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/08/2008