Did you know you can use Bing Visual Search for PowerShell Cmdlets? How cool is this? Want to know more check this interview with Jeffrey Snover by Tony Soper at MMS.

Because of the Iceland volcanic ash quite some people from the Netherlands were not able to go to MMS 2010 in Las Vegas this year, including me. That’s why Robert Bakker from Microsoft suggested to view the Keynote in the Dutch Microsoft HQ. Here is an impression of viewing the keynote at our office. Hope you all enjoyed the keynote :-)

Source: Internal As you might know I was not able to fly to MMS 2010 in Las Vegas due to the recent eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland :-( So I’ve time for other things and today I stumbled on the next screencast, which might be handy for implementing OpsMgr Crossplatform monitoring. Check out this screencast on Screencast.com.  

Source: internal email Microsoft has acquired Opalis Software, a Toronto-based private company that is a leader in IT process automation software. Opalis will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft. This acquisition will deliver great new functionality to the System Center family and will help win more datacenter deals by offering a more complete solution to our customers. Learn more about Opalis, visit http://www.opalis.com. Read the official blog post on the acquisition. Check out these 4 demo videos of Opalis : http://edge.technet.com/Media/Opalis-Solution-and-Component-Overview/ http://edge.technet.com/Media/Installing-and-Configuring-Opalis-Components/ http://edge.technet.com/Media/Writing-Opalis-Workflows-and-Utilizing-the-Databus/ http://edge.technet.com/Media/System-Center-Operations-Manager-to-BMC-Remedy-Integration-Pack-Demo/

Source: System Center Forum Today I was watching the latest recording of the January 2009 SCUG Meeting and to my surprise I was seeing some info about Debugging Scripts which I blogged about some time ago.    So if you didn’t had time to join the livemeeting go download the recording. Below are the starting times in the video for each speaker so you can fast forward to whatever you like. 1:05 - Savision Live Maps v3 Demo (Dennis Rietvink) 51:46 - Custom Scripting and Script Debugging in OpsMgr 2007 (Pete Zerger) 1:19:45 - Top MS Support Issues for Operations Manager 2007 (Steve Rachui) 

Source: Pavleck.Net Jeremy started an OpsMgr Video Experiment called Ask About OpsMgr and I really like the idea. “I’ve been reading and hearing all over the place how complicated and difficult Operations Manager is. You’re half-right. It’s immensely complicated when compared to previous editions, and when it’s your first exposure to it. I’m aiming to change all that, and I’m trying it in a new medium - video! So watch the video below (Or if your firewall rules don’t prohibit it, go directly to the YouTube link) and post a video response asking me your question. Any question. I’ll do my best to answer it with the help of the OpsMgr Army and screencast it all!” So because I quite new to creating videos I installed my webcam software did some tests and create my first Ask About OpsMgr Video question! Sorry for not being a great actor yet:-) I’ve already some thoughts about how I would solve my question but maybe there are some other ways to do it. Happy Xmass and Happy New Year!