I’ve only had my hands on the OpsMgr MP Authoring Resource Kit for about 24 hours now, but already the tools are proving to be invaluable. This post describes a problem that I was able to investigate with the Workflow Analyzer tool to determine the exact cause of the issue. Background In a management pack I’m [...]
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On a number of occasions in the past few weeks, I’ve found myself wishing there was an easy way to search a machine’s event log for events that matched a string in the description. I’ve primarily wanted such a utility while troubleshooting SCOM management packs, where I wanted to be able to filter for events [...]
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Over the past few years, I’ve bounced between virtualization products in my home test lab, including MS Virtual PC and Virtual Server, as well as VMWare Server and Desktop. Given the option, I’d love to have a Windows 2008 Hyper-V server to run my home development environment, but given the hardware requirements, I don’t see [...]
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This utility has so changed the way I work, it’s hard to imagine life before it. Terminals is a remote desktop utility that implements tabbed windows for RDP, VNC, SSH, ICA (and more) remote connections. Get it here: http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals
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