CRM Outlook Plug-in with Office 365

Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently I ran across an issue getting my outlook 2013 CRM plug-in connecting to our Office 365 CRM instance. I ran through the typical solutions: Repairing the CRM installation Reinstalling the Windows Foundation 3.5 Windows...

Change the Beginning IR Number in Service Manager

Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou would never want to change the auto-incrementing value range in SCSM 2012…would you? Well, I came across an instance where I needed to (which I will explain in detail in future blog posts). Essentially, I was migrating from a...

Patching SQL AlwaysOn with Orchestrator

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesPatching SQL AlwaysOn with Orchestrator is a bit different than the patching Hyper-V clusters with Orchestrator. If you’ve looked up the community runbook for cluster patching from Neil Peterson found here you’ll notice he...

SCOM: Syntax Error during CentOS 7 Discovery

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutesUnexpected Error during CentOS 7 Server Discovery   As most readers are aware, Microsoft added support for cross-platform monitoring of Unix and Linux systems to Operations Manager (SCOM) back in 2009 and has been improving the...