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One of the most useful health-related services offered by ASP.NET is the Web Events feature. By modifying the Web.config file, you can use the health monitoring system to log unhandled exceptions, expired forms, authentication tickets, and any other data you want logged in your application. If you want...

With the latest update rollup we resolved 2 major user experience issues customers have given us feedback on. 1. Hostname\Display Name in “Object by Performance” widget is empty I am happy to announce that we addressed the issue where the display name in Object By Performance widget...

Most of you have seen the out-of-the-box dashboards we provided in OpsMgr 2012. We now want to share with you our extensibility story for dashboards and show you how you can build custom dashboards within minutes. Eugene our UI Dev Lead and I (UI Program Manager) will present this brand new session(IM...

BELOW IS A LIST OF SESSIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE OPSMGR (SCOM) PRODUCT ENGINEERING TEAM AT MMS 2013 ( http://www.2013mms.com/ ) BELOW IS A LIST OF SESSIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE OPSMGR (SCOM) MVPs AND PARTNERS AT MMS 2013 Hope to see everyone at MMS.

If you have tried editing knowledge in OpsMgr 2012 with Office 2010 you are likely to have run into this error “Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word” or as shown in the image below. Working with our support team (Mitch L, Stephen R) we have a temporary work...

Dear Users, With the Beta release of Global Service Monitor (GSM) we added one of the most requested features: ability to execute multistep web tests with authentication. This is a big step forward compared with single URL tests we had in CTP, because it allows monitoring health of end-to-end user...

So... I was talking to my friend/colleague Eric in MSIT (Microsoft IT), who is one of our internal System Center power users, as you can imagine. MSIT manages thousands of line of business applications. As APM gets rolled out to web farms, or new servers are added to the monitoring system, how do you...

I have been talking to a number of people, both online as well as in person (at MMS, TechED and in other occasions) and one of the recurring questions I get, as people plan for their deployment of System Center 2012 – Operations Manager and want to use the APM feature, is “how much more space will I...

Across the IT industry, the term “transaction” is used in many different ways and with a variety of subtly-different meanings. In System Center 2012 – Operations Manager, the APM (“.NET application performance monitoring”) feature also uses the term “transaction” – and it does it in a very specific way...

The OpsMgr 2012 Sizing Helper is an interactive document designed to assist you with planning & sizing deployments of System Center 2012 Operations Manager. It helps you plan the correct amount of infrastructure needed for a new OpsMgr 2012 deployment, removing the uncertainties in making IT hardware...

In case you have missed those, Kristopher Bash, who works in the cross-platform team, has published a set of blog posts about the new cross-platforms templates and functionality in System Center 2012 – Operations Manager: http://operatingquadrant.com/2012/01/27/opsmgr-2012-unixlinux-authoring-templates...

Michael wrote a post in August, about working with Alerts . One of the key takeaways from that post, is that – for each application and for each application component – we have FOUR Alerting rules, that can be turned on or off from the APM Template. Quoting that post: Alerting Rules...

It has been a while since we posted some new information about APM in OpsMgr 2012. Michael wrote a post in August, about working with Alerts , which was following up on a couple of previous ones about how to get things running , how APM works , and how to simulate errors for testing . Also Sergey has...