Introduction Site-to-site Virtual Private Network (VPN) is used to establish connections between different locations of companies, amongst others. This way the different locations can exchange data with each other through a secure connection. In Azure, Site-to-Site VPN is used to establish connections between the Azure tenant and the on-premises environment. Making use of the Site-to-Site VPN connection … Continue reading Create a Site-to-Site VPN with Azure Resource Manager
Installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 CU11 – Part 1
On December 15th 2015 Microsoft released the Cumulative Update 11 (CU11) for Exchange Server 2013. In the upcoming blog post series I will describe the steps for a Greenfield installation of Exchange 2013 CU11 on Microsoft Windows Server 2012R2. In total this blog post series will consist of four parts. Regarding to this subject several … Continue reading Installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 CU11 – Part 1
New Blog Title
This post is intended to inform my readers about the title change of my blog. Until now my blog posts were only related to products of the Microsoft System Center Suite and were mainly focused on Operations Manager. However, since I want to expand my horizons, future blog posts will be related to products other … Continue reading New Blog Title
Unable to Proceed error during upgrade Operations Manager 2012R2
During the upgrade of Operations Manager 2012R2 it is possible that you encounter some problems. For example, starting the upgrade process for Operations Manager 2012 R2 the following error is shown in some cases: "Setup is unable to proceed with installation for the following reason: “Setup could not detect the current Data Warehouse scenario. Please … Continue reading Unable to Proceed error during upgrade Operations Manager 2012R2
Operations Manager Dashboards in Microsoft Visio
In this post I describe what cool items can be built with the Visio based dashboard solutions for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). I am aware of the awesome products that are made by Squared Up and Savision which both can be used to make excellent dashboards. However, in this post I will focus on … Continue reading Operations Manager Dashboards in Microsoft Visio
SCOM License: Requested registry access is not allowed
After installing System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 R2 it is necessary to enter the product key. This can be done by the Operations Manager Shell, but if the command Set-SCOMLicense -ProductId <Product Key> was entered the message: set-scomlicense: Requested registry access is not allowed may appear (Figure 1). Figure 1. SCOM PowerShell License key … Continue reading SCOM License: Requested registry access is not allowed
Creating Rules in Operations Manager 2012 R2
In this post I will describe the necessary steps that must be followed in order to create a rule targeted against a group in Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2012 R2. In this particular case I will create a rule that keeps an eye on the Windows Special Logon events. The procedure is as follows: Open the Operations … Continue reading Creating Rules in Operations Manager 2012 R2
Installing OpsMgr 2012 R2 Reporting Services
Last week I was working for one of our clients. Although they have been using Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2012 R2 for some time, they have not made use of OpsMgr SQL Reporting Services (SRS) yet. My job was to install and configure both SRS and OpsMgr Reporting. In this post I will describe the installation … Continue reading Installing OpsMgr 2012 R2 Reporting Services
Application Performance Monitoring – Client-Side Monitoring
Introduction In my previous post I described the configuration of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) for SharePoint 2010, including Client-Side Monitoring (CSM) for SharePoint. Unfortunately, CSM is not supported for SharePoint 2010 and the configuration of CSM as described in my previous post was found to give disappointing results. Therefore, I will describe the setup of CSM … Continue reading Application Performance Monitoring – Client-Side Monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring – SharePoint 2010
Introduction The last couple of weeks I was working for a customer to configure .NET Application Performance Monitoring (APM). One of the applications that they want to monitor is SharePoint 2010. In this blog post I will guide you through the configuration steps. Although this post is focused on SharePoint 2010, the Server Side configuration steps can … Continue reading Application Performance Monitoring – SharePoint 2010
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