If you are judging this post by the title, you are probably going to be surprised it is about Operations Manager 2007, and not about personal hygiene. But I came across something very useful in the OpsMgr GUI the other day and I thought I should share with those that may care. Often times I … Read more
I got excited the other day. Very excited. “Big Idea” excited. That’s right, I had a Big Idea, and in that moment of Kramer-esque Zen I could clearly see what I was destined to build with Operations Manager. Alas, in order to build it, I would need to make customizations that I was not sure … Read more
About a month ago I came across a wonderful idea. I thought about how I could use Operations Manager to monitor my databases to ensure they have had a backup done within a predefined amount of time. I know lots of DBAs out there that have similar checks in place, most of which involve reports … Read more
Sorry I have been so quiet lately, but it was hard finding time to write about everything that is happening to me this week. I took some notes and plan on writing individual blog entries. Most of them should be done before the end of next week, so expect a handful (or more) of entries … Read more
I just put the finishing touches on a new custom monitor in Operations Manager. This monitor rolls up into the ‘Availability’ monitor for the SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 DB targets. The monitor will run a script that reads from the msdb database, joined to the master database. The idea is that we only want … Read more
Yep, my stickers and moo cards have arrived. I look forward to handing these out at PASS in two weeks. Drop me a tweet if you want to meet up to get one. Or, better yet, stop by … Read more
