SCOM Test Accounts

Looking to create some test accounts to run synthetic transactions on a Lync watcher node? Good! Heads up: keep your SAM Account Names under 15 characters. I usually follow this practice, but - as usual - the time I made an exception, it really mattered as Doug Dietterick was telling us a few years back: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dodeitte/archive/2011/07/18/issue-when-running-new-set-cshealthmonitoringconfiguration.aspx

~ponboquod~

SysAdmin Cheat Sheets

In most of our jobs, we touch a lot of different technologies. If you are like me, I have notes everywhere; in text files, OneNote, EverNote, bookmarks and who knows where else. A colleague found this site which has compiled a lot of cheat sheets, one-pagers, whatever you want to call them.

~ brad

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”  ~ Steve Jobs