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Error running Remove-DisabledMonitoringObject in System Center Operations Manager
I’ve been experimenting with SCOM for a project I’m doing. One of the things that people frequently complain about in SCOM is that when you enable a management pack those monitors are enabled for EVERY SINGLE MACHINE it discovers. Annoying right? Well turns out you can work around this. Here’s what you have to do: Create a group under Authoring and assign it to a new...
Read MoreDefault Environment Variable Values in Microsoft Windows
Today I needed to know what the environment variable for C:\Program Files (x86)\ would be for a project I was working. I found a great table of these on Wikipedia.org at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable#Default_Values_on_Microsoft_Windows Here’s that table though for quick...
Read MoreWPC Talk 4/4: Deploying the infrastructure for 5000 shared hosting accounts in just 3 business days
On the evening of June 9th I received an invitation for Applied Innovations to join a beta program that would be initially limited to just 3-4 hosters. The program would give us an 8 month jump start on our competition with a new program Microsoft was going to promote, later to be known as WebMatrix. In order to join the program we had to build out the infrastructure for 5000 trial/beta hosting...
Read MoreWPC Talk 3/4: WebsiteSpark and it’s impact on Applied Innovations
We were among the first hosts invited to be a part of WebsiteSpark and quickly made WebsiteSpark a core focus for our company because it fit very well with both our business philosophy and model. As a result, Applied Innovations has been leading the hosting industry in sponsored WebsiteSpark enrollments. WebsiteSpark explained in 60 seconds If you’re not familiar the WebsiteSpark program it’s...
Read MoreWPC Talk 2/4 : The Dynamic Datacenter and the impact it’s had on Applied Innovations.
In February of last year we were approached by Microsoft to try out this new managed hosting platform that was still in development. You see, prior to approaching us Microsoft had been working with another hoster (MaximumASP) and wanted to make sure this was a product that would have traction in the hosting industry. We were uniquely positioned for this task as we had successfully built a new...
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