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jmacconsult

  1. Currently soaking up all the System Center 2012 grooviness at MMS 2012 -- never has the Microsoft customer been expected to learn so much o…
  2. is this taxi line at Las Vegas airport the longest in history? are we all here for MMS 2012?
  3. excellent site for learning French -- frenchmorning.com/ny/
  4. I'm going to a Meetup with New York City Cloud Computing Group http://meetu.ps/NdcB
  5. I'm on a multi-month SCOM engineering position with a financial trading firm -- linking KB articles to a Sharepoint list works great for Ops
  6. Starting Monday on a 3-month SCOM/Opalis assignment for a major Wall St firm. The love is back!
  7. Recently won approval for my video for the TIA Train the Trainer class --- should have the MCT completed shortly.
  8. Just passed exam for "Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuration" -- who said you couldn't have fun in ITSM?
  9. While always wary to some extent of broad plugs for vendor solutions, this interview, with 15 accompanying video clips…http://lnkd.in/AkqQXQ
  10. Just accepted to System Center Influencers Program for expertise sharing around SCOM, Opalis and Service Manager, http://tinyurl.com/ld253n
  11. Just discovered some valuable guidance on applying MOF to SCOM 2007 here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/y4bz49x
  12. Will IT security ever by really usable? My thoughts on an article in Communications of the ACM. http://tinyurl.com/yd9tnjf
  13. How frustrating for Windows admins that Zenoss 2.5.1 still lacks a good WMI zenpack. Lesson learned--be very thorough testing upgrades!
  14. Discovered the "dependency" feature in ManageEngine's OpManager allows mapping any rule to any component's status -- very powerful!
  15. Had a great demo of ManageEngine Service Desk Plus today -- opens the door to a lot of ITIL capacities.
  16. about to see a demo of Nimsoft presented by Doris Cohen