So my current contract has ended and while I have some spare time I’m going to be focusing fiercely (Well, fiercely for me anyway) on “Project KONOP”, the OpsMgr Web Service. I’ve even been so bold as to take the liberty in registering SCOMWS.com to host it.
And a new project, still unfinished – SystemCenterSearch.com. Hoping to make it a very basic ‘portal’ for all things system center – but mainly centered on the most recent issues, most common problems and solutions, and a simple search that looks through all of the system center websites for your query.
And for you Redditors out there I’ve made two new sub-reddits. /r/SystemCenter – dedicated to all things System Center related and /r/SCOM – dedicated to just OpsMgr stuff (Of which we know I’m kind of partial to).
So just a quick note to let you know what I’m working on. Now, I’m back to working on website front-ends and building a web service using a 5 year old book from MS Press heh.
Is anyone else in the OpsMgr community using Google Wave yet? If you’re not yet ‘in the know’, Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration.
I recently received my invite to it, and have setup a System Center Operations Manager wave to test it out. If you’re a member too, please add jpavleck@gmail.com to your contact list, and I’ll add you to it.
If you’re not a member yet, but would like to be, they’re still handing out invites – just go to the Wave Signup form and fill in your information. If you’re still not sure what it actually is, check out Google’s own “About Google Wave”, read about it on its Wikipedia page, or have a look at the preview video released in May.
Granted, as SCOM people we already have a lot of places available to us. There’s the newsgroups, SystemCenterForum.Org, MOMCommunity.Com, the MS community, MyITForum, FAQShop, and the whole army of bloggers – but I can’t find somewhere I can’t get live help, bounce ideas off of people, etc. Sure, I have friends on various IM programs that do the same thing, but they aren’t always around and I’d hate to bother them if I don’t have to.
I want one. From hanging out in a PowerShell chat room I’ve learned so much more, and so much faster, then I would have reading books and going through tutorials.
So I’ve setup an IRC chat room on the FreeNode network. Why FreeNode? Well, the PowerShell guys hang out there, so we might as well hang out there too. So if you’re familiar with IRC, connect to chat.freenode.net and /join channel #scom. Not familiar with it? Then use the web based chat I’ve setup (And will eventually register) or read the ’short’ IRC primer.
Hope to see you there, as I’m fairly lonely in the channel all by myself!
Ian Blyth of the System Center Technologies blog has put together a quite extensive list of MOM & SCOM bloggers. I encourage you to check em out and add their feeds to your feed reader – and to make it even easier on you, I’ve created 4 OPML feeds for you to choose from. They’ve been lumped into 3 groups; MS Blogs, Community Blogs, and Useful Feeds. Most newsreaders allow you to choose which links you want to import from a feed, and they are in folders, so choose the grand list first and if that doesn’t work, try one of the other ones.
SCOM & MOM – All Feeds.opml
SCOM & MOM – MS “Official” Feeds.opml
SCOM & MOM – Community Feeds.opml
SCOM & MOM – Useful Feeds.opml
