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Blog Post: Have a say on the future of System Center

SatyaVel {MSFT}

The System Center leadership team is looking to hear from you on the challenges you face with your Management tools and where you would like to see us invest going forward. We put together a short survey to gather your feedback and an option to join a discussion panel around this topic. We are...

on 7 Jan 2015
Blog Post: Available now: The Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0

Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team

Today we are releasing the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) 3.0, a supported, freely available solution for converting VMware-based virtual machines and virtual disks to Hyper-V-based virtual machines and virtual hard disks (VHDs). With the latest release, MVMC 3.0 adds the ability to convert...

on 13 Oct 2014
Blog Post: Microsoft Azure, 가상 컴퓨터(VM)의 가용성 집합(Availability Set), 그리고 부하 분산(Load Balancing)

Seung Joo Baek

Microsoft Azure를 사용하시다보면, 정기적인 유지 보수 작업을 위해서 시스템이 리부팅될 수 있다는 메일을 받을 수 있습니다. 해당 메일 내에는 다운 타임에 대응하기 위해, 가용성 집합(Availability Set)을 사용하라는 내용이 포함되어 있죠. 이를 활용해야, Microsoft Azure에서 보장하는 SLA(Service Level Agreement) 를 보장한다는 것입니다. 금일 포스팅은 Microsoft Azure내 가상 머신에 대한 가용성을 높이는 방법을 살펴보려고 합니다. 가용성에 대한 이야기를 살펴보려면,...

on 6 Aug 2014
Blog Post: Managed Availability RCA

Mohamed Tawfik AMHIL

With the new concept “Managed Availability” in Exchange 2013 which runs on all Exchange servers for monitoring servers health, this process analyze hundreds of health metrics when something wrong happened an action will be invoked to correct this problem . In some cases when Managed Availability...

on 24 Oct 2013
Blog Post: Move Mailbox Database

Mohamed Tawfik AMHIL

1. Remove the Mailbox database copy: 1.2 In the EAC, go to Servers > Databases. 1.2 Select the mailbox database whose copy you want to remove. 1.3 In the Details pane, locate the passive copy you want to remove and click Remove. 1.4 Confirm the removal on the warning dialog box by clicking yes...

on 7 Dec 2013
Blog Post: Recommendations for Exchange 2007 Single copy cluster resources model

Mohamed Tawfik AMHIL

Exchange 2007 provides high availability through four models; Local continuous replication, Single copy cluster, cluster Continuous replication and Standby continuous replication. Exchange 2007 single copy cluster provides high availability for the node failure scenarios and can be implemented with...

on 18 Nov 2013
Blog Post: “Down and Out” for Google Apps Users

Tony Tai - MSFT

Outages will happen, whether we use applications managed by a supplier in the cloud, or use applications managed by in-house, IT staff. Some of the news lately has been about Google Apps' service outages. Yet, if we have tools to be productive in our workday, cloud service outages aren’t as painful...

on 12 Jun 2012
Blog Post: SCOMfaq.ch: SCOM 2012 – JEE Application Availability Monitor Template

Christopher Crammond

Over on SCOMfaq.ch there is a great posting on SCOM 2012 – JEE Application Availability Monitor Template . As I wrote the template wizard, it's pretty cool to see a post about something (professional) I did on the world-wide-web. I was going to do a similar post, but this is such a great job I...

on 31 May 2012
Blog Post: BeanSpy: JBoss Application Server JMXQuery to list deployed applications

Christopher Crammond

IF you are running JBoss, here are a few quick steps to validating the BeanSpy installation. Once you havedeployed BeanSpy to a web application server, the next step is to see that it works. While look at the /Stats or /Stats/Info is a nice cross-platform solution, sometimes you want to know what...

on 22 Jan 2013
Blog Post: Using multistep web tests for monitoring with Global Service Monitor Beta release

J.C. Hornbeck

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 ...read more

on 18 Sep 2012
Blog Post: System Center Global Service Monitor: Getting Started

J.C. Hornbeck

Dear Users! We have just announced the first public release of System Center Global Service Monitor (GSM). GSM provides capability to monitor externally facing web sites and web services from geo-distributed locations. System Center customers can configure ...read more

on 15 Jan 2013
Blog Post: KB: Unable to see any performance or availability details using System Center 2012 Operations Manager widgets

J.C. Hornbeck

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where you may be unable to see any performance or availability details using System Center 2012 Operations Manager widgets ===== Symptoms When using performance widgets in ...read more

on 23 May 2012
Blog Post: Using multistep web tests for monitoring with Global Service Monitor Beta release

Anna Timasheva

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...

on 18 Sep 2012
Blog Post: KB: Unable to see any performance or availability details using System Center 2012 Operations Manager widgets

J.C. Hornbeck

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where you may be unable to see any performance or availability details using System Center 2012 Operations Manager widgets ===== Symptoms When using performance widgets in System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr), you...

on 23 May 2012
Blog Post: System Center Global Service Monitor: Getting Started

Anna Timasheva

Dear Users! We have just announced the first public release of System Center Global Service Monitor (GSM). GSM provides capability to monitor externally facing web sites and web services from geo-distributed locations. System Center customers can configure monitoring scenarios, such as multistep web...

on 15 Jan 2013
Blog Post: Map Dashboard in SC 2012 Operations Manager

Marcin Jastrzębski

Today, I will show you how you can create a map dashboard that displays availability and monitoring data for configured Web Application Availability tests. I will walk you through the bare minimum steps needed to display a map dashboard with some useful data. Prerequisites To complete this tutorial,...

on 21 May 2012
Blog Post: Cross Forest Availability fails with Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6

Jim Martin - MSFT

I recently came across an issue with cross forest availabilityafter applying Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6. One of the updates included in this RU is KB2545080 (Users in a source forest cannot view the free/busy information of mailboxes in a target forest when the cross-forest Availability service is configured...

on 1 Apr 2012
Blog Post: FAQ : What is the Service Availability of Office365?

Anthony Murphy - MSFT

A common question I get is around what our service availability is and about how we handle any planned or unplanned outages. We have a strong commitment to fulfilling our uptime guaranteer and constantly improving both the service and our communications channels about service availability, and this is...

on 8 Nov 2011
Blog Post: What You Should Know About Geographically Dispersed Exchange High Availability and the File Share Witness (FSW)

Frank Battiston

Here's an article that discusses the recommendations around the placement of the Microsoft Exchange Server File Share Witness (FSW) in Database Availability Groups (DAG) where the DAG member is placed in two or more physical locations. Microsoft’s recommendation is to place the FSW in the primary...

on 27 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Storage and Continuous Availability Enhancements in Windows Server 8

Microsoft Windows Server Team

Check out Thomas Pfenning's blog post, General Manager Server and Tools, where he discusses the storage and availability enhancements in the next release of Windows Server codenamed "Windows Server 8". Read Thomas' post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

on 20 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Windows Server 2012 R2 Available October 18th

Microsoft Windows Server Team

Today we are pleased to make several important announcements. We are extremely excited that on October 18 th , eligible customers will able to download Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and use the latest update to Windows Intune. Also on October 18 th , Windows 8.1 will be available to...

on 14 Aug 2013
Blog Post: Storage and Continuous Availability Enhancements in Windows Server 8

Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team

Check out Thomas Pfenning's blog post, General Manager Server and Tools, where he discusses the storage and availability enhancements in the next release of Windows Server codenamed "Windows Server 8". Read Thomas' post on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog .

on 20 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Storage and Continuous Availability Enhancements in Windows Server 8

Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team

Greetings from the Storage Developer Conference, where I had the opportunity to introduce attendees to some of the new storage capabilities in “ Windows Server 8 .” Following Bill Laing’s post introducing the product, I would like to share more about our investments to give customers...

on 20 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Announcing the Public Availability of Workflow Manager 1.0

Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team

Today is a great day in my organization as we’re able to publically announce the release of Workflow Manager 1.0, which is now available for download . Workflow Manager 1.0 allows you to host and manage long-running Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) applications. Workflow Manager was designed to...

on 24 Oct 2012
Blog Post: Windows Azure Service Bus Comes to Windows Server

Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team

As you have likely seen by now, every group at Microsoft that touches aspects of our datacenter solutions has been asked to optimize for our new Cloud OS strategy. Specifically, this means delivering a common set of technologies across a variety of deployment platform. This can be a customer’s...

on 24 Oct 2012