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Hi people, I’m sorry but I had to remove my last two blogposts about OpsMgr vNext because there is no public beta available yet. I got a little too excited when opening the PowerShell command Shell. If you are still interested in what is coming in the next version of OpsMgr you can watch this video where...

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. Have fun learning OpsMgr & PowerShell next year again! Tweet

It has been some time ago I posted my last blogpost, because the last couple of week have been quite emotional. My mother has been diagnosed with Lymphoma and had her first chemo last week. I tried to support my mum as much as possible and we got some great help from friends and relatives in these difficult...

Source: Bink.nu Last month we released our Remote Desktop Connection Manager on MS Download. I’v been using this great tool for quite some time now and I would recommend taking a look. This is really a great Remote Desktop Connection tool.  

Source: Microsoft Technet “Memory is often the source of performance problems, and you should always rule out memory problems before examining other areas of the system. Systems use both physical and virtual memory. To rule out memory problems with a system, you should configure application performance...

Source: The Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog Visio MVP David Parker recently developed visViewer as a shareware program to encourage the use of the Visio document format with non-Visio users. Key Benefits Stand alone application for viewing Visio files without Visio Advanced search of shape data (custom...

MMS 2009 is very close now and I’m getting ready to leave on Sunday for Las Vegas. More and more people are getting exited including me for this great event to learn about the latest IT Management Solutions from Microsoft. As you may know there is something new that’s called Twitter . If you still not...

The last couple of weeks I’m trying to be the fastest on @twitbrain . Twitbrain is a challenge to answer calculation questions like How much is? 713 – 63 * 3 Example: But the more people following @twitbrain on Twitter the more difficult it becomes to be the first who answers the question correct...

Source: TechNet Flash Newsletter In case you missed it in your TechNet Flash Newsletter. Create Visio Network Diagrams in a Snap – Download the Free LANsurveyor Express Plug-in As an IT professional, you need an up-to-date network map to help you diagnose connectivity issues and maintain workplace productivity...

Are you listening to Podcasts? Then you could take a look at some System Center Podcasts on our Podcast Home website . Here is a list but there are many more to be found. Successfully Monitor UNIX and Linux Alongside Your Windows Infrastructure with Operations Manager 2007 R2 Duration: 00:51...

Pete Zerger wrote an article about creating a Console Task to launch a Remote Interactive CmdPrompt for MOM 2005 using PSExec. A customer asked if this also could be done for OpsMgr 2007, this was not as easy as I thought. It turned out that an extra space is added before the servername where psexec...

Source: System Center Operations Manager Microsoft and the Operations Manager 2007 product team would like to know what you think about the quality of Microsoft management packs for Operations Manager 2007. This community survey is your chance to rate the quality and features of several management packs...

Did you know there is a Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog ? I didn’t knew that when I used to be a MVP for MOM before starting at Microsoft a little more than a year ago. Being awarded as MVP was one of the best things that happened in my professional career. I got access to information which before was...

Source: System Center Forum Today I was watching the latest recording of the January 2009 SCUG Meeting and to my surprise I was seeing some info about Debugging Scripts which I blogged about some time ago.    So if you didn’t had time to join the livemeeting go download the recording. Below...

Yesterday I got my new Twitter Background created by Dan Kregor . I follow Dan and when I visited his Twitter page I loved his background. So I asked him how he created his beautiful background and before I new he suggested to create one for me! How awesome is this?   Dan thanks for creating this...

Source: Mindre.net Tore has listened to my request :-) Thanks Tore!     Go and download this great Sidebar Gadget!

Today I took my MOFv4 exam and passed with a score of 90%. I made 4 mistakes from the 40 questions. Not bad I believe ;-) If I’ve some time in the future I want to blog some stuff on how to use MOF with OpsMgr 2007. But I don’t think that’s soon because I’m quite busy at the moment. Looking for more...

Source: gvenkdaily Among the technologies Microsoft is highlighting in its booth at CES this year is a hardware and software platform for the next generation of more useful and flexible household objects, appliances and accessories. The Windows-based platform is the result of a collaboration between...

I got a question about Windows Live Writer from Rod Trent and when investigating this question I found that you can easily create blog posts when you are in Internet Explorer. How? Just go to Tools and click on Blog This in Windows Live Writer. This should also work in IE7.

Source: System Center Forum System Center Forum had upgraded their website yesterday and it looks great. They are running on Wordpress . Not sure if they were already running on Wordpress but you can see on here what’s new. One of the new features they are offering is MPNotifier RSS feed. Curious...

Source: internal A colleague of mine (André) likes to have simple clean Desktop Wallpapers and he just found a System Center Desktop Wallpaper. And I like it. Maybe you like it too. You can download it from my SkyDrive.

Yesterday I reinstalled my personal website and deleted my old weblog ( http://weblog.stranger.nl ).  I used to run my old weblog on Drupal but after starting a new weblog on Technet I didn’t update my personal weblog anymore. Now I created a Lifestream , a real-time flow of my activity across...

I’m currently building a new demo/test environment on my Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V server. And I wanted to have a Virtual Router running on Hyper-V which should handle the routing between the virtual networks on Hyper-V. First some background info on my network at home. So I looked for a software...

It has been a busy weekend for me which ended not so good for me. On Friday my sister got married and that same evening I got an Achilles Tendon Rupture during my soccer practice. I heard a bang an felt a sudden sharp pain as if someone has whacked me in the back of the leg. After taking some painkillers...

I already blogged about the new OpsManJam website where you can find unofficial management packs, management pack authoring tutorials and guidance, featured articles on everything OpsManager 2007, command shell scripts, and more.  Kevin Holman also blogged about this website and told that the site...