Together with my buddy Stefan Roth I will be organizing a new user group called _Experts Live Café - Microsoft IT Pro Switzerland. _The user group will be part of the Experts Live network which is known for its famous Experts Live events. So what is the idea behind the Experts Live Café? Basically it is all about community members getting together and sharing know-how, socializing, networking and of course having a good time.…

This is the fourth part of a blog post series called “Installing Service Manager 2016 Data Warehouse” and will cover how to install a Service Manger 2016 Data Warehouse server on Windows Server 2016 with Desktop Experience. Installing Service Manager 2016 Part 1: What’s new Installing Service Manager 2016 Part 2: Primary Management Server Installing Service Manager 2016 Part 3: Self Service Web Portal Installing Service Manager 2016 Part 4: Data Warehouse Management Server (this post) Installing Service Manager 2016 Part 5: Scripting the installation In this blog post series I will describe the installation of Service Manager 2016 based on a pretty simple 3 computer scenario.…

You are probably aware that since System Center 2012 R2, Service Manager comes with a pre-installed Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) which is perfectly compatible to System Center 2012 Operations Manager. After completing Service Manger setup, you just have to manually configure the agent to communicate with your Operations Manager management server. However in Service Manager, the Microsoft Monitoring Agent does not just calculate the health state of the monitored computer and reports back to the Operations Manager management server.…