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Vyatta Virtual Router on Hyper-V

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

Dutch System Center Event “Meer dan Beheer 2008”

On September 12th 2008, the Dutch System Center User Group , INOVATIV (the System Center specialists) and Secure Vantage , will organize the System Center event of the year: " Meer dan beheer 2008 " in The Netherlands. Dutch speaking professionals

PowerShell CMDLets for WebSphere MQ - administer queues on Windows or Linux

Source: All About Interop Dino Chiesa is writing about PowerShell CMDLets for WebSphere. “It seems IBM have been busy doing CmdLets for MQ, and somehow this escaped my attention . Starting back in December 2007, Dale Lane at IBM published a series

Savision ready for Microsoft Teched Orlando

Today I got an email from Douwe and Dennis from Savision with their first impression on TechEd Orlando. There are ready to show their product so if you have some time visit their booth. I really like their Dutch orange jackets ;-) Did you know the Dutch

Management Pack for SAP Monitoring

Source: RealTech REALTECH's newly developed Management Pack for SAP Monitoring is one of the first integration modules to use the .NET interface of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to display real-time information on the availability, performance,

Update: OpsMgr 2007 Toolbox

I’ve updated my OpsMgr 2007 Toolbox with the Windows PowerShell Scriptomatic from Ed Wilson, My Log File Viewer Util from Jeevan Bisht and the Data Warehouse Data Retention Policy tool from Daniel Savage. Here is the link to the updated version.

RSS2Twitter Part 2

Thanks to Jeremy Pavleck I found out that Twitterfeed is much more efficient than using a PowerShell rss2twitter script. And he is right! But I learned some PowerShell creating the rss2twitter script ;-)

Identifying source cause of excess resource consumption

Source: System Center Forum “When CPU and memory resource consumption are running at or near 100%, the first thing an administrator wants to check is what processes are running at the time the excess resource consumption took place. The problem

Started MPNotifier on Twitter

I already posted an article on using Twitter and now I’ve create a MPNotifier Twitter account . So if you want to know about the latest MPs just follow the MPNotifier Twitter .

Xandros leader in offering suite of MP applications?

Source: Edge Martin Buckly of Microsoft talks with Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros about working with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions and the new opportunities Xandros is seeing. Andreas Typaldos: “Xandros

Silect MP Studio Lite vs MPViewer

Feature MP Studio Lite MPViewer Register Management Groups 1 Group n.a. Multiple views of Management Pack files or installed Management Packs X you need to select a MP to view Graphical view of MP references X   View Content – rules, monitors,

Exclusive: Savision Live Maps 2.0

Savision showed their new version Live Maps 2.0 on MMS, and because I’ve been a beta tester I can already tell you it has some great new features. NEW FEATURES Live Maps Web Console The Live Maps web console displays Live Maps maps in Microsoft

Free download of Silects MP Studio Lite

Source: System Center Forum “Silect Studio has delivered for the Operations Manager community in a big way with MP Studio 2007 Lite, a scaled down version of MP Studio designed primarily for MP reporting (in HTML format).” Go for download

Secure Vantage Security Management Pack Templates

Source: Secure Vantage Team Blog I was lucky enough to get a preview of Secure Vantage Security Management Pack Templates and more this week and there are very cool! I wanted to write about them but it was NDA, but now the Secure Vantage Team has blogged

First impression of Security Top Alerts MP (STAMP) from Secure Vantage

Secure Vantage is offering a free download of their Security Top Alerts Management Pack (STAMP). STAMP is designed to provide key alerting for Windows Server Security events leveraging System Center Operations Manager 2007. STAMP is intended to provide