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Quick Post – Visio 2013 Stencils Bluish Single-Colored

Today I had some conceptual work to do and as this always involves some fancy Visio diagrams, I ran into a problem which might also could happen to you. Microsoft has released  great Windows Server 2012 / Office 365 stencils for Visio 2013. You can find them here. As soon you start Visio and import […]

SCOM – Exchange 2010 MP “extest_” User (?)

Have you ever installed the Exchange 2010 management pack? If you follow the management pack guide there will be a section where you can enable the synthetic transaction tests for the Exchange. Those synthetic transactions will perform several tests on your Exchange infrastructure and warn you if there is a problem with your mail flow. […]

SCOM 2012 SharePoint Dashboard – Part 1

For my setup I used the Share Point Foundation 2010 on my System Center Service Manager 2012 management server  where I also installed the self-service portal. The following pre-requisites are needed: The Operations Manager Web Console must be installed on a management server. The SharePoint farm must be running SharePoint Server 2010 Standard, SharePoint Server […]