Operations Manager 2007: Keeping the finger on the pulse with RSS feeds
Many of you are probably having a hard time, just like me, to try to keep up with all the new things that are coming out about Operations Manager.
There are so many blogs, and System Center Download Catalogue that you should check to keep yourself up to date.
In this blog post I will try to explain how I keep up with the information flow without browsing the Internet all night long.
The most simple way of keeping you self up to date is via RSS feeds. With RSS feeds you can collect all information in one place from many different sources. I like to keep myself up to date “real time”, so I use an RSS Ticker.
This is mostly known from banks where they are used to give the latest stock quotes.
I will recommend one RSS tickers that I used myself.
RSS Crawler: https://www.mirabyte.com/en/products/rsscrawler.html
With the RSS Crawler you can have two tickers at the same time and put different RSS into each one of them.
In my case I have Operations Manager related info in the upper ticker bar and News in the bottom ticker bar.
So which RSS feeds am I watching for?
OpsMgr Team Blog
This is the Operations Manager Team Blog. This is where you should look for communications from the Product Group.
xmlUrl=https://blogs.technet.com/momteam/rss.xml
OpsMgr++
Boris Yanushpolsky is a product manager at Microsoft and works with Operations Manager SDK and integration to Operations Manager.
Boris have created many nice tools which helps you do nice little things that you can’t normally do out of the box. Tools like MP Viewer and Override Explorer are some of the nice tools that really helps me on a daily basis.
xmlUrl=https://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/rss.xml
OpsMgr, SCE And MOM Blog
This blog is run by Clive Eastwood who is as a Supportability Program Manager for MOM. Cleve postes many interisting articles about tweaks and “issues” with Operations Manager. If you are having an issue with Operations Manager, a good place to start could be Clives blog.
xmlUrl=https://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/rss.xml
Stefan Stranger's Weblog - Manage your IT Infrastructure
Stefan Stranger is a Premier Field Engineer working for Microsoft. Stefan has great thoughts and views on Operations Manager and have posted many interesting artichles on how to make better use Operations Manager. A good blog if you need inspirations for your Operations Manager infrastructure.
"Stefan Stranger's Weblog - Manage your IT Infrastructure" xmlUrl=https://feeds.feedburner.com/myiti
System Center Forum
This is probably the biggest forum for Operations Manager. This is a good blog if you need help or if you just started with Operations Manager.
There are self-made MPs and articles that discusses different topics about Operations Manager.
"System Center Forum » News" xmlUrl=https://feeds.feedburner.com/systemcenterforum#
Kevin Holman’s OpsMgr Blog
Kevin Holman is a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft and like Stefan he also blogs about bleeding edge topics on Operations Manager. If you need guidance on how to configure something in Operations Manager this is a good blog to visit.
"Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog" xmlUrl=https://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/rss.xml
Operations Manager 2007 Download List
This is an RSS feed I have created so you can track if any new Management Packs have been released for Operations Manager 2007.
I will create a separate blog where I will describe a list of RSS feeds I have created to keep track on Operations Manager Management Pack Releases.
"Operations Manager 2007 Download List" xmlUrl=https://www.feed43.com/opsmgr2007list.xml
If you have an RSS feeder that supports OMPL you can download the complete list below:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<opml version="1.0">
<head>
<title>RSScrawler 2.0 - News-Feeds</title>
</head>
<body>
<outline text="OpsMgr Team Blog" xmlUrl="https://blogs.technet.com/momteam/rss.xml" />
<outline text="OpsMgr++" xmlUrl="https://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/rss.xml" />
<outline text="OpsMgr, SCE And MOM Blog" xmlUrl="https://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/rss.xml" />
<outline text="Stefan Stranger's Weblog - Manage your IT Infrastructure" xmlUrl="https://feeds.feedburner.com/myiti" />
<outline text="System Center Forum » News" xmlUrl="https://feeds.feedburner.com/systemcenterforum#" />
<outline text="WChomak" xmlUrl="https://wchomak.spaces.live.com/feed.rss#" />
<outline text="Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog" xmlUrl="https://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/rss.xml" />
<outline text="Operations Manager 2007 Download List" xmlUrl="https://www.feed43.com/opsmgr2007list.xml" />
</body>
</opml>
If you believe that I’m messing any blogs in this list, please let me know about it.
Thanks
Anders Ravnholt