Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – SQL Assessment (Part 7)

During the last couple of months System Center Advisor or as probably will be known as Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview after TechEd Europe 2014 has received a lot of improvements and feature so we are now to Part 7. With this blog post I am also renaming all other blog posts. Here is the full list:

In this post we will have a quick look at a new intelligence pack called SQL Assessment: Continue reading “Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – SQL Assessment (Part 7)”

System Center Universe (aka Community MMS) Europe 2014 Now Available on Channel9

Just want to tip you that SCU Europe 2014 (aka Community MMS) sessions are now available on Channel9. All 60 sessions are available: Continue reading “System Center Universe (aka Community MMS) Europe 2014 Now Available on Channel9”

Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Time Matters in Dashboard (Part 6)

So far I’ve covered almost every Intelligence Pack. Last week a new feature “My Dashboard” was released. This is one of the features I’ve voted on. With this short post I want to share a tip how to make your tiles in My Dashboard more useful. Continue reading “Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Time Matters in Dashboard (Part 6)”

Adding Windows Server Gateway Cluster as Network Service in VMM 2012 R2 UR2 for Monitoring with SCOM

Not so long ago I’ve reported an issue where Multi-Tenant RRAS (Windows Server Gateway) is not discovered by by the Multi-Tenant RRAS Management Pack. This problem has been fixed in Update Rollup 2 for System Center  2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. If you add Windows Server Gateways as Network Service in VMM as usual you will not notice a difference in the wizard and after the gateway is added successful you will probably had to create that Client Access Point resource manually. That is because the fix is not exposed directly in the wizard, it is actually a parameter that you have provide in the connection string. And actually the parameters are two: Continue reading “Adding Windows Server Gateway Cluster as Network Service in VMM 2012 R2 UR2 for Monitoring with SCOM”

Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Change Tracking (Part 5)

As System Center Advisor is in Preview there are a lot of changes. One such change is new Intelligence Pack – Change Tracking. Continue reading “Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Change Tracking (Part 5)”