Live Blog – Sri Lanka IT Pro User Group Meeting
This is the inaugural Meetup of this forum and is scheduled to start at 6 Pm from Microsoft Sri Lanka Office.
More information: here including the agenda.
SCOM and its implementations are going on in UK, but it is new to SL. – Susantha
Susantha now monitors 2 web services which he have created with Windows Azure service.
Susantha now shows us a demo where he creates a Self signed certificate for his site which will act as a encrypt to transfer data.
Without doing any modification to the app, APM agent cam monitor .Net Apps. It gives you a trace of the exact area of the bug. – Susantha
Infrastructure/network monitoring is now something we monitor. Now we have the capability of enhanced intelli-trace integration where you can find out the bug, quickly. – Susantha
SCOM is now in r2 stage. integrated with ’360′, a function monitoring system. – Susantha
Server side and end side monitoring is so important. It matters because in the end of the day, if the business is down, you have to answer. – Susantha
If you have outdated firewalls, you might not even be able to connect to the internet. Susantha
Agenda: monitoring requirements and goals
SCOM 2012 overview
Azure management pack
GSM monitoring of web applications availability
We are back. Susantha is a MVP and will be talking on ‘monitoring your azure cloud services from SCOM 2012′.
Before we start the next session by Susantha Silva, we will be having a small break.
Be right back.
You have to be very careful with the task creator since it could mess up the whole thing. – Hasitha
He concludes.
Hasitha shows us how to check inventory data with the SCCM console.
Using these kind of tools for managing your enterprise desktop is a win. – Hasitha
Using SCCM, with a central location HDD, you can manage all your PCs in one place. – Hasitha
Hasitha shows us the video he screen recorded earlier today with this whole proceeding.
using SCCM after you have assigned a task of migration from XP to Windows 7, you can mention your requirements, like if you want to install app updates or not. – Hasitha
From the total pool of drivers, if allowed, SCCM will find the best latest build of the driver software and install. – Hasitha
You can categorize HW drivers for each hardware box according to the brand of the each enterprise desktop. – Hasitha
SCCM is a product you keep to manage you enterprise desktop. – Hasitha
Hasitha shows a quick demo to us on how to set up the SCCM server to start a migration on his VM.
A migration depends on each PC. Average is about 1 – 1.5 hours. – Hasitha
with SCCM you can approval request part. Likewise, you can manage apps as well. – Hasitha
All the domain details including the static IPs will be mapped.
To implement one of these migrations you need to scan user states from a computer on your network. – Hasitha
Inventory readiness. Microsoft Mapping tool helps you to map HW and SW inventory and this tool is provided by MS for free. – Hasitha
1st session is conducted by Hasitha Methmal, about ‘how to handle the Windows XP dilemma when it expires’
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