sbuchanan Packt has published 1,000 titles and they are giving away free stuff. This is the last day to sign up. If you haven’t already go claim your 1 free e-book and get 7 day access to Packt Publishing online library. This gives you access to all the books Packt has published including mine Microsoft Data … Read more
Here is another tool that can be used to help you tune or demo SCOM. This tool is called Philip and is a disk space filler. This tool can be used to fill up space on a hard drive so an alert can be triggered on SCOM. The speed at which this tool generates the … Read more
There has been discussion lately around running SCOM 2012 and other SC products in the cloud for DEMO and POC purposes. One problem with running SCOM in a cloud solution is not having access to network device/s. There is a solution to this. You can run a network device emulator. This is available as software … Read more
We are in the final rounds of writing the DPM 2012 book. We also have had another Microsoft MVP join the team of authors! Flemming Riis has joined us and we are excited to have him on the team. His blog can be found here: http://flemmingriis.com He will bring great content to the book. … Read more
Are you learning System Center Orchestrator 2012? If yes, you can download some example runbooks to help you practice on Orchestrator. These can be downloaded from codeplex here: http://orchestrator.codeplex.com/releases/view/86195 There are 43 total runbooks most are for each of the products in the System Center 2012 stack but there are a few for general administrative … Read more
System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta was announced today. There are some exciting updates to System Center 2012. Here are some of the enhancements I have been waiting for: Data Protection Manager Improved backup performance of Hyper-V over CSV 2.0 Protection for Hyper-V over remote SMB share Protection for Windows Server 2012 de-duplicated … Read more
Packt reached out to me to be a technical reviewer for the Service Manager 2012 Cookbook I recently blogged about. I finished the technical review and I have to say the authors have done a great job. I am really looking forward to this book being released. It is scheduled to be released in December … Read more
DPM 2012 training by Robert Hedblom,Microsoft MVP is now available. The next one will be held in the US. From this class you will learn: Module 1: Introduction of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Module 2: Concept walkthrough of Backup, Restore and Disaster Recovery scenarios Module 3: Installation of DPM 2012 Module 4: … Read more
I ran across a gentleman in one of the DPM forums that needed a way to turn on throttling across hundreds and hundreds of DPM agents. It is not feasible to turn this on via the DPM admin console agent by agent as this would require a lot of time to do. I am going … Read more
Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 was released today. This rollup has fixes for App Controller, SCOM, SCORH, SCSM, SCVMM, and DPM. SCORH, SCSM, SCVMM, and DPM. This rollup is packed with updates for DPM. Here is the list: Data Protection Manager (KB2706783) Issue 1 After you upgrade from System Center Data Protection Manager … Read more