May07

Advantages of Using SolarWinds System Center Extension Pack

Customized monitoring of wide range of 3rd applications in SCOM/OpsMgr 2012 is now possible via Solarwinds System Center Extension pack. Solarwinds System Center Extension Pack includes “Server & Application Monitor (SolarWinds-SAM-v5.5.0-Eval-p857 )” and “System Center Management Pack ( System-Center-Management-Pack-v2.1.0) . It also provides native support for more than 150 applications including IBM® DB2, Apache™, Oracle® & more. You can download the free train version of  Solarwinds System Center Extension Pack from here

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Apr08

MMS 2013 ConfigMgr SCCM 2012 Training Videos

Are you NOT attending MMS 2013? You can view the sessions in MMS 2013 via Channel 9. In this post, I’ve listed down all the configuration Manager related session details along with Video links. Videos will be available only 24/48 hours after the sessions.

Also, if you want to download these videos try the following link.  blog.scomfaq.ch

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Configuration Manager 2012: MVP Experts Panel - UD-B320 - Johan Arwidmark, Jason Sandys, Kent Agerlund, Steve Thompson, Kim Oppalfens, Greg Ramsey, Brian Mason, Sherry Kissinger ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Apr08

How to Get complete visibility of physical and virtual infrastructures and applications from one Console

Veeam has released a new Management Pack (MP version 6).  Veeam MP version 6 extends System Center visibility beyond your critical applications and operating systems to include virtual machines, VMware vSphere, and the hardware, storage and network resources they run on.

In this blog, I’ll try to highlight the new features in Management Pack V6. More details about Veeam Management pack here in my previous post How to Monitor ESX VMware vSphere vCenter with OpsMgr 2012?.

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Apr03

ConfigMgr SCCM Boundaries Which is better IP Ranges or Subnet

MMS 2013 videos will also help you clear your boundary concepts in CM 2012. Steven had a full session on boundary topic. Jason Sandys had mentioned about boundaries in almost all of his sessions. Jason Adams also had couple of discussions about boundaries in MMS 2013. Find our more about “Overlapping Site Boundaries in ConfigMgr 2007 or 2012” .

Since last few months Configmgr Boundaries has became hot topic in Configmgr community forum/s.  The latest post on this topic is from Saud Al-Mishari Microsoft PFE.  He talks about “how subnets and ranges are used internally by ConfigMgr”. Read the full post here.

There are several other blog posts available about the same topic.I thought of putting all posts related to SCCM Boundary selection topic for easy access. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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