How-To: Put a Complete Map into Maintenance Mode
One of the many advantages of using Live Maps for System Center Operations Manager is that all objects on a map are stored in a SCOM group. This is done automatically by the Live Maps authoring…
Microsoft uses Live Maps to manage the hands-on labs MMS
During the Microsoft Management Summit 2010 in Las Vegas Microsoft took a new approach with their hands-on lab infrastructure. Microsoft replaced the fat desktops running the lab VMs locally with…
The Next Level of BlackBerry Monitoring
Last week our partner OpsLogix released their Intelligent Management Pack for BlackBerry. The Intelligent Management Pack for BlackBerry checks the status of your BlackBerry Enterprise Server…
Mapping the 21st Century School
The Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) Strategic Information Technologies serves the quintessential distributed work force, consisting of some 1.300 individual schools, more than…
How-to: Play a Custom Alarm Sound in OpsMgr
Audible alarms are a good way of getting attention in your NOC when a critical SCOM alert is detected. In this article I will explain how to configure audible alarms in System Center Operations…
How-to: Create Advanced Network Topologies with OpsMgr
System Center Operations Manager 2007 is a great platform to extend into the network monitoring space. Switching to a single monitoring platform allows you to save money and create a single pane of…
How-to: Create Dynamic Views by IP Subnet in OpsMgr
One of the great features of Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 is to create health models for your IT services. In some cases however you might be looking for a way to create a geographical…
How-To: Rotate multiple Live Map views on a single screen
One of the more common questions we get from our customers is if they can rotate a number of views on a single screen. The answer is, yes they can and so can you if you follow these simple…
How-to: Override the state rollup behavior of a Live Maps view
With Savision Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 you are able to create health state aware nested views in System Center Operations Manager 2007. The default state rollup algorithm for a Live…