Last weekend I was at PubForum (now E2E Virtualization Conference) in Dublin Ireland. During the sessions I used my iPhone once in a while to check twitter, nothing more then usual. My battery however, was draining really fast. I had to charge my iPhone three times a day and still found myself with an empty […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Object, like computers, in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) can be placed in a maintenance mode. While the object is in maintenance mode no alerts will be generated, as expected. I wanted to see which objects have been placed in maintenance mode, unfortunately there is no default report supplied by Microsoft. Fortunately Alain Côte wrote […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
In a few days PubForum starts in Dublin, Ireland. Starting on Friday May 13 2011 and ending on Sunday May 15 2011. With at least 25 presenters,including Ingmar Verheij and Remko Weijnen, 36 sessions and 15 successful events since 2003, the conference is here to stay. Since I’m attending (and presenting) PubForum I’ve created an […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
HP provides management packs for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) for monitoring a HP Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). These management packs can be found here. The management packs supplied by HP use the WEBES component to forward events about the EVA (warnings or errors) to SCOM, but it won’t collect performance data or capacity […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that contains one or more worksheets. Each worksheet contains a bunch of cells which are located by a row (1,2,3,etc) and a column (A,B,C,etc). Each cell can contain data or a formula. With a formula your able to transform the data from other cells to whatever you may need. […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
During an implementation of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) a customer asked me how he can retrieve information about Exchange mailbox stores for trend analysis. Unfortunately the managemeng pack supplied by Microsoft does not collect the size of Mailbox Stores in the datawarehouse. So I’ve created an add-on for the Microsoft Exchange 2003 Management Pack […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
When creating a management pack in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) you might want to create a performance view that only shows data of a specific rule. Although this is very easy in the Operations Console there is a catch when you redistribute the management pack. The rule is saved as a GUID (which is […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
Begin this year a customer asked me to solve his problems with smartcards (UZI-pas) on Windows CE6-based thin clients. The problem was, in short, that after removing the smartcard it was unrecognized. As a bonus, when a user was authenticated using a certificate on the smartcard, an eject and reinsert was simulated causing the […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
As Tim Mangan recently blogged, the system timer in a multiprocessor Windows machine operates at 15ms. The effect of this 15ms is that a measurement / calculation in your program can vary with 15ms. This is fine for most operations in your program, but not when you want accuracy to the millisecond. Although the best […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.
In System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (SCOM) alerts and warnings are generated and collected in the ‘Active Alerts’ view. A useful function is the ability to assign an alert to a user, this enables the IT department to delegate the alerts to specific administrators. This way a storage administrator can solve the storage problems, […]
Was once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we hope to you too.