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| 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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| 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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| The Report Authoring Guide for System Center Operations Manager and System Center Essentials is now available. This makes it far easier to add and edit reports that your manager has been screaming for over the last few months! |
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| Jalasoft have begun contributing to http://www.systemcenterforum.org and are starting with a series of eight articles about their core product, Xian IO for System Center Operations Manager 2007. I’m particularly excited to see these postings. Jalasoft and Xian has been around for a good while, but it’s been pretty hard to find out specifics; this despite the obvious interest in managing network devices through SCOM. Xian offers support for a vast range of devices, so go check out the article and check out their website! |
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I set up email notification in OpsMan 2007 and could not get it working, even though I could use telnet to send email from the management server with the same configuration I set in OpsMan. After much research, I finally found that the issue is in OpsMan 2007 and there is a fix for it. If you do not have all the Alert options checked, then email notification will not work.See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937470/en-usFor an explanation of the issue and where to get the hotfix from. UPDATE: Thanks to Chad Rogers on this one! Chad Says “If I am correct, this hotfix has been included in the new SCOM SP1 RC, which was released in November last year. This should be going RTM in mid Feb this year.”Thanks for the update Chad, We’ll look out for Service Pack 1 and see if it does indeed fix the problem!
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