Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Frank Zakrajsek

Edhi Sarwono

Sai Gopal Kodi

Roberta McAlpine

Anupama Vedapuri

Sanjeeb Sarangi

Deepak Munjal

Luis Camara Manoel

Suveen Kumar Reddy Vuppala

James W Truher

Travis Austin Wright

Gregory P Gicewicz

A mechanism for enabling enterprise data centers to allocate portions of their infrastructure and assign them to specific line of business unit IT organizations. The mechanism allows the business unit to dynamically and rapidly provision virtual infrastructure as needed to run line of business applications. This can also enable the business unit to focus more on the development and management of the applications rather than invest significant resources in managing the infrastructure layer. In various embodiments, data center administrators may be enabled to allocate and assign a portion of their physical infrastructure (Storage, Network and Compute) and expose them as a virtualized environment to different business unit organizations.

Dynamic allocation and assignment of virtual environment

One or more available command units can be represented with a computer output device. The available command units can be command units from one or more snapins, such as one or more snapins that include command units to be run with a shell application. User input can be received from an input device, the user input selecting one or more selected command units of the available command units. In response to the user input, source code can be automatically generated from the one or more command units, and the source code can be automatically compiled to generate one or more workflow activities.

Converting command units into workflow activities

Automatically notifying, in response to an event associated with a particular server and/or application on a network, only appropriate person(s) such as, for example, only the IT member(s) responsible for supporting the server and/or application. The work schedules and the work schedule exceptions of one or more persons may be taken into account when determining whom to notify of an event on a network. Event information may be received. In response, subscription information for a plurality of subscribers may be accessed, which may include any of: one or more applications for which the subscriber is responsible; one or more servers for which the subscriber is responsible; a work schedule of the subscriber for receiving notifications, and one or more exceptions to this schedule. At least one subscriber may be selected by comparing this information to the event information, and a notification may be sent to the at least one subscriber.

Automatically targeting notifications about events on a network to appropriate persons

A method and system for monitoring configuration information of computing devices is provided. The monitoring system generates a desired configuration monitor ('DCM') document for each computing device that is to have its configuration monitored. The DCM document specifies configuration settings to be monitored along with rules that specify how to determine whether a configuration setting is correct. Each computing device may include a comparison engine that inputs the DCM document and applies the rules of the DCM document to determine which configuration settings of the computing device are not in compliance.

User interface for specifying desired configurations

Distributed monitoring of desired configurations using rules

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Frank Zakrajsek