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Visual Basic 2008 Express: Build a Program Now! sample files

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:04 PM by Jeanie Decker
I decided to try to learn Visual Basic, so I picked up a book that looked promising: Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! I've been working through the chapters. In chapter 6, (adding a splash screen) it instructs you to replace Read More...
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R2: check for MP updates

Posted Friday, June 19, 2009 9:35 AM by Jeanie Decker
There hasn't been an easy way to check for management pack updates in Operations Manager 2007 until the R2 release. Once you're running R2, you can use the Import Management Packs wizard to determine if any of the MPs you are running have had an update Read More...
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Submit questions for the Operator's Manual

Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:14 AM by Jeanie Decker
There are two ways to approach content on using the Operations console and Web console for Operations Manager: Explain what information is available in each section of the consoles. Take examples of information that an operator would want to locate, and Read More...
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Is your IE8 slow to open a new tab?

Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:44 PM by Jeanie Decker
Whenever I would open a new tab in IE8, whether by control-clicking a link or simply clicking the New Tab tab, everything would go dead for a good 10-20 seconds until IE8would finally show a new tab and then begin trying to open something in it. (Yeah, Read More...
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Where did "Key Concepts" go?

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:23 AM by Jeanie Decker
Back when Operations Manager 2007 was released, the content team posted an online version of a Key Concepts Guide and a download version . When you look at our documentation download page for Ops Mgr 2007 R2 , Key Concepts isn't listed. Where did it go? Read More...
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Product knowledge in management packs

Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 1:37 PM by Jeanie Decker
Some components of management packs include product knowledge , which is just information provided by the MP author (as compared to company knowledge which is information provided by the user in their own copy of the MP). We're working on internal guidelines Read More...
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ReadMe vs. Guide

Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:38 PM by Jeanie Decker
You might notice in the management pack guide library that some guides are quite extensive (like Active Directory ) and some are a single webpage with "ReadMe" in the name (like FRS ). You might also notice in the installation folder for some management Read More...
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An operating system, a horse, and transparency

Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 9:43 AM by Jeanie Decker
Catching up on my Microsoft-related blog feeds this morning, I counted at least a dozen blogs announcing the new Windows 7 blog -- some rah-rah posts, some just passing it on, some speculating as to how much information the blog will actually provide, Read More...
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Support for Windows Server 2008

Posted Saturday, July 26, 2008 1:30 PM by Jeanie Decker
I know many of you have been waiting anxiously eagerly for management packs for Windows Server 2008. The support statement has been released and now we can start publishing them to the Catalog . Be sure to read Clive's post carefully, he calls out some Read More...
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Adding change logs to management pack guides

Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 10:16 PM by Jeanie Decker
If you've downloaded a recently updated management pack for Ops Mgr 2007, such as the SQL 2000/2005 MP , you might have noticed something new in the accompanying guide. We've begun adding lists of the specific changes made to the updated MP. And as a Read More...
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Tuning tips

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:44 PM by Jeanie Decker
I was looking for more specific guidance on tuning Ops Manager for a customer and found a great set of posts on this Operations Manager blog , so I thought I'd share: OpsMgr by Example: Tuning Management Packs Configuring Baselines Pt. 1 Configuring Baselines Read More...
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System Center Content Search

Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:35 PM by Jeanie Decker
I'm not a gadget-y sort of person. I mean, I like gadgets, but I've grown wary of them (both offline and on) because so often they're a disappointment -- either they don't deliver or I don't really have a use for them. But recently I saw a presentation Read More...
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SP1 management packs: where are the guides?

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:43 PM by Jeanie Decker
Most of our management packs are released to the download center (via the Ops Manager Catalog ) with a guide included. When we released Ops Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 , it included a number of management packs with it, but no guides, leading a number Read More...
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Subtle improvement to management pack installation

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:28 PM by Jeanie Decker
I'm thrilled with this change, even though it's just a few words. Previously, the .msi files for management packs used just the product/technology name, which resulted in a nice default folder organization like this: System Center Management Packs Exchange Read More...
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My new Zune

Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:12 PM by Jeanie Decker
It's red. A really deep, rich red. Small and slender, but it feels nicely solid. And here was my setup experience: I had an existing instance of Zune (from the first release), not paired with a device, that I had already upgraded to the new software. Read More...
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