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A few years ago I was working on a project as a project manager and architect when a developer came up to me and said, "You need to denormalize these tables…" and he handed me a list of about 10 tables that he wanted collapsed into one big table. When I asked him why, he explained that his query was taking four minutes to…
Application performance monitoring (APM) is a broad subject which tends to look at how businesses are using enterprise level applications. These applications can help solve end-user requirements and continuously maintain high availability to ensure optimal performance. Furthermore, organizations that depend on APM…
System Center is a great platform to perform application monitoring and management, but it contains a few gaps where native functionality isn’t provided. Fortunately, System Center is an extensible platform and SysAdmins can leverage 3rd party tools that quickly fill technology gaps and often plug into the System Center…
Mailbox server role in Exchange 2013 is quite simple actually. All you have is mailbox and public folder databases, and email storage. The mailbox server role consists of mail database, replication, storage, information store, RPC requests, and calendaring and resource bookings. Although it’s crucial to monitor the mailbox…
It’s normal for IT admins to utilize several operating systems to support different applications and user groups. Particularly because certain operating systems are best suited to take on the user load, ease of troubleshooting, faster to implement updates, easy to detect issues, cost effectiveness, and so on. At the same…
The need for a well-rounded reporting tool is not often spoken about. If you’re thinking how much of a difference your report is going to make to your organization, well think again. Having a great reporting system makes a huge difference to senior IT staff, since a lot of critical decisions they make, whether it’s related…
What makes Server & Application Monitor (SAM) awesome is its ability to monitor out-of-the-box applications using templates. A template is a set of different component monitors that monitor the performance and current status of your applications. There are over 150 templates and SAM provides clearly defined settings on…
When you decide to take time off of work to go on vacation or even plan to be out of office for a day, you must be thinking of a way to not get those dreaded phone calls and messages about server downtime and application issues. False Alerts: Reasons Why You Get Them and How to Avoid Them There are many reasons why you…
Was looking to upgrade a client to SAM 6.1 and ran into a pop up stating we had to be on NPM 10.7. Why suddenly are modular upgrades becoming dependent on the version of NPM. In past upgrades, as long as you were within 1 or two versions, a new module could be upgraded without issue. Now suddenly if you want to upgrade…
Hi All, Here is another challenge - how to configure a report to let us know of all component settings which have been overridden across all templates which were assigned to nodes? Some overrides might have a temporary nature and we need a way to ensure compliance across all network. Thank you for your help, Alex
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