How much more impressed will your management be when you deliver reports in your corporate template? Very? Lots? Will they think you’ve spent tons of time massaging your reports yourself?
Do you feel lucky?
David Allen provides detailed information on exactly how to do this:
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2008/07/07/personalize-your-opsmgr-2007-reports.aspx
Sphere: Related ContentThe Ottawa Business Journal from Ontario, Canada reports that N-Able has joined the System Center Alliance. The System Center Alliance is made up of Microsoft Partners, and specifically ISV’s who have technologies which are for and integrate with the System Center Suite of Products. N-Able are different in that they have signed an agreement with MS to integrate their software with the future versions of MS’s System Center Products.
The integration of third parties into System Center has had a checkered history. Some examples which spring to mind are ABC Software and their abortive Software Metering Solution for SMS 2.0, Crystal Reports and their horrific reporting for SMS 2.0 and of course the long running feud with Wise software in regards to SMS Installer.
Read the full article here
Sphere: Related ContentIt’s been kind of quiet here lately. Since leaving Dimension Data, I’ve been working on a new product called Community Engine. We’re producing a leading edge, semantic web application, with all the bells and whistles of Silverlight, Active Directory and a slew of other technologies which will produce probably the coolest web platform since apache….
We hit beta 1 last week and are currently deep in issue management driving to beta 2.
We’re running a significant web farm at a co-location facility, performing management with System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Configuration Manager and a ton of powershell and other features.
It’s a tough job; I’m managing a team of devs as lead architect, a bunch of UI designers and a full featured operations team.
I’ve got a little more time now and will post updates as I get them…
| In scanning my Google Alerts this week, I came across this really useful PDF on tuning and optimising System Center Operations Manager. You can download it from here. Thanks to infront consulting for this one! Well done boys! |
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Sphere: Related Content| Chris Wolf has been writing about two acquisitions that Microsoft has made recently in the desktop virtualisation space. This is becoming more and more exciting. We’ve never really been able to get application developers to use practices which eliminate software compatibility problems and I don’t think we ever will… Therefore, instead of fixing the coding problem, we’re going to virtualise applications and the desktop (and probably servers as well), which kind of hides the issue and encourages more sloppy coding… Nevertheless, I think the days are numbered for all the first movers as the Microsoft machine is getting ready to own this space (and they probably should…). Whilst I look forward to the end of application compatibility issues, I don’t really feel the solution is as elegant as it could be. Click on the image to read Chris’s take on the whole thing… |
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| Take a look at the document linked on the right. It’s long been the case that the big framework management products have held sway over every machine under outsourced management. Articles such as these are really the tip of the iceberg. Many pundits are telling me that we are moving to a world where managed service providers (called MSP’s) are seriously looking at the Microsoft Management tools in earnest. Unicenter and Tivoli have never been fantastic at desktop management so this is an interesting and some would say well overdue movement. |
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| For just 48 Euros, you can understand System Center Data Protection Manager. As Backup is soooo important to most businesses, I really think if you have any responsibility for system backups, you should understand as much as possible about the options available to you. System Center Data Protection Manager has been architected from the ground up as a leading edge world class data backup and recovery solution so even a cursory look is probably worthwhile. Enjoy! |
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| It’s here! Download the Release Candidate of the OpsMgr 2007 Management Pack Authoring Console and start authoring your own management packs through a graphical user interface (unless you still want to do it in raw XML). |
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| Interested in System Center Mobile Device Manager? Take a look at Jason Langridge’s presentation content by clicking on the linked image to the right… |
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| Need I say more? No… OpsMgr reports in Sharepoint, pure unbridled intranet goodness. Read this post for how to do it! |
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