Author Archives: Marcel Zehner

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Microsoft Azure MVP

SCSM 2012 SP1 (Beta) – Monitoring Management Servers with SCOM 2012

Monitoring SCSM 2012 Management Servers with SCOM 2012 was not possible by using SCOM 2012 agents. During an upgrade process from SCSM 2010 to SCSM 2012 you even need to remove the SCOM agent before the upgrade. After a successful … Continue reading

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Creating Custom Service Manager Reports with Parameters

A while ago I published an article on how to create custom Service Manager reports –> see here. This post is a follow up article that explains how to use report parameters to filter the displayed results. This can be … Continue reading

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Creating Custom Service Manager Reports

When you are working with Service Manager, you have some report definitions that are delivered with Management Packs for basic reporting. With SM12, the concept of OLAP Cubes is another method that you can use for getting information out of … Continue reading

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Data Cubes in Service Manager 2012 – Part 3/3 (Creating your own Data Cubes)

Finally … this is the third part of a series that explains data cubes in Service Manager 2012. The first and the second part have been published in January and February 2012. Sorry for the delay of this last part. … Continue reading

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Marcel@SC12 SP1 TAP Airlift

From September 17th to 19th I will be in Redmond on the Microsoft Campus for the System Center 2012 SP1 TAP Airlift together with SCOM-Master Stefan Roth (http://blog.scomfaq.ch) and Hyper-V-Guru Thomas Maurer (http://www.thomasmaurer.ch). This is my third Airlift and I’m … Continue reading

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Dealing with multiple Management Servers 3/3: Decommission old Management Servers

Sometimes Management Servers have to be removed from a Service Manager Management Group. This last blog post of the series will explain all the needed steps.

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Service Manager 2012 Workshop – get your seat now!

Hey all. As part of our Private Cloud workshop series, we have a new workshop for Service Manager 2012 ready for you. Next date will be October 29th until November 2nd 2012, the workshop is held in Bern/Switzerland in German … Continue reading

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Speaker@geekmania 2012

For the 7th year in a row we are proud to present a complete track at geekmania 2012 – the conference for real geeks Together with other architects and engineers of itnetx we are presenting lots of cool stuff around … Continue reading

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Dealing with multiple Management Servers 2/3: Load Balance Management Servers

In the first post of the “Dealing with multiple Management Server” series I demonstrated how to install additional Management Server. This post takes the next steps and will guide you through the process of load balancing your Management Servers.

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Private Cloud Exam 70-247 – my Experience

Some weeks ago I took the first Cloud exam an posted my experience here. Today I took the second Cloud exam 70-247. This may be (depending on your actual certifications) one of the exams you need to pass to get … Continue reading

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