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OpsVault – Moving to TechNet and MSDN 30 Oct 2012 | 07:51 pm
We’re excited to announce that OpsVault has moved to the newly launched Microsoft Premier Field Engineering sites on both TechNet and MSDN (for IT Pros and Developers, respectively). This is great fo...
How to Implement OpsMgr Delegation Models (Part 2) 6 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
Tweet System Center Operations Manager (a.k.a. OpsMgr) provides a facility to share out either the rich or web console to your different support groups within your operational organization. In my tr...
Service Catalogues and The Service Description (Part 1) 5 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
Tweet A service catalog (or catalogue), as defined in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Service Design, is a list of services that an organization provides, often to its employees ...
Best Practices for Patching Windows 2003/2008 Clusters 2 Jul 2012 | 08:00 pm
Tweet Lately there is a question that I always seem to receive and it always starts with “What is the Microsoft Best Practice when it comes to ___________”. That blank represents a wide range of ques...
How to Monitor Deadlocks in SQL Server 28 Jun 2012 | 08:00 pm
Tweet Every now and then we have deadlocks taking place in SQL Server. Most go unnoticed, either because the frontend application handles it gracefully. Or no error is not reported out to the user....
A Microsoft SQL Server DMV/DMF Cheat-Sheet (Part 2) 27 Jun 2012 | 08:00 pm
Tweet In my last post I talked about how to get the list connections (e.g. who is connected and requests are they running on SQL Server). I talked about how to use dm_exec_connections, dm_exec_sessi...
Solving “The Delegates settings were not saved correctly” Error on Exchange 2010 26 Jun 2012 | 08:00 pm
Tweet One of my customers came to me with the following issue and asked if there were “better” solutions available than they found using their own Internet research. They use a mix of Outlook 2007 an...
Project Barcelona: A Revolution in Enterprise Metadata Management – Part 2 11 May 2012 | 12:00 am
Tweet In my last article, we discussed the nature of metadata, the need for metadata management in the modern enterprise, and some fundamental information about Project Barcelona. In this article, we...
A Microsoft SQL Server DMV/DMF Cheat-Sheet 2 May 2012 | 12:00 am
Tweet I am asked this question by Microsoft SQL Server customers again and again: “What dynamic management views (DMV) or dynamic management functions (DMF) should I use?” The short answer is, as man...
How To Monitor Disk Usage with System Center Operations Manager 27 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
Tweet Monitoring how much data is stored on a particular drive and displaying it in a graph and/or report format is often requested by customers running Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Wr...