The Service Level Dashboard is an application built on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It is designed to work with an existing Operations Manager 2007 R2 infrastructure configured to monitor business-critical applications. The dashboard evaluates an application or group over a time period that the administrator...

YAASAFTSAT (AKA Yet Another Awesome Solution Accelerator From the Solution Accelerator Team) :) Check out the new Service Level Dashboard 2.0 Beta for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RC1 This free Solution Accelerator collects and monitors operational measurements for your line of business ...

Many of Microsoft's enterprise-level applications use SQL Server on the back end to host data, content, etc. CRM, Operations Manager, Sharepoint... You get the idea. While many companies have Database Administrators (DBA's) to manage their business-critical databases (perhaps the ones holding customer...

Some useful videos to accompany the release of Service Pack 1 for Operations Manager 2007 ... (or you can pick up the Eval version here ) Learn from the experts how to use the many features of Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) as well as address frequently asked questions. Note : Windows Media...

Photographers get to call their lenses "glass", so server engineers can get away with calling their servers "iron" :). Quite often on the internal discussion lists, I see questions along the lines of "my customer is going to implement Exchange 2007 in their environment. How many servers do they need...

No... not Harry Potter. Judging by my trip to Costco today, every living human being on the planet has already bought a copy ;) If you run (or plan to run) Microsoft Operations Manager , there are two books you must have in your library: Essential Microsoft Operations Manager by Chris Fox (if you are...

All right… I'm going to go all market-y on you here. I know there is not a ton of information out there on the new System Center Remote Operations Manager offering for Managed Services Providers (MSP's), but the marketing team is hard at work on that. The best place to keep your eye on is Dustin's blog...