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  • Introduction In my previous blogpost I described how to configure a Site-to-site Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection in Microsoft Azure. In this blogpost I will explain how to create an Active Directory (AD) trust. This particular trust will create the… Continue reading →

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  • 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… Continue reading →

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  • 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… Continue reading →

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  • 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… Continue reading →

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  • 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… Continue reading →

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  • 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… Continue reading →

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  • 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… Continue reading →

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  • 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… Continue reading →

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  • 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… Continue reading →

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  • 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… Continue reading →

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