Wednesday, October 23, 2013

[OpsMgr 2012] Prerequisite check failed when installing System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions version 1.1.0.0 on Visual Studio 2010 ( #VSAE #Authoring #OpsMgr )


When installing the new VSAE on computer with Visual Studio 2010, you have a message box : Prerequisite check did not pass.




It seems that it's not compliant with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 event if in the supported configuration on Microsoft site we have : 


Supported Operating System are

  • Windows 7, Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8.1, Windows Vista
And Other SoftwareMicrosoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013



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[OpsMgr 2012] System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions - Version 1.1.0.0 released ( #Authoring #VSAE )


The System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions—VSAE—is an add-in for Visual Studio 2010 Professional and later which provides Lifecycle Management Tools to support Management Pack Authoring. More details can be found at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5236.visual-studio-authoring-extensions-for-system-center-2012-operations-manager.aspx



    • Feature Summary
      • VS Projects for Monitoring MPs, System Center 2012 and later MPs including Operations Manager and Service Manager.
      • MP Item Templates for quick creation of MP Items.
        • XML MP Item Templates (generates MP XML for editing).
        • Template Group Item Templates (Abstract your intent from MP XML).
        • Snippet Templates (generates MP XML from CSV)
      • IntelliSense for MP XML for the following versions:
        • System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
        • System Center Operations Manager 2012 and later
        • System Center Service Manager 2012 and later
      • Integrates into Visual Studio Project System with *.mpproj.
        • Enables building within VS & MSBuild.
        • Supports custom build tasks (simply edit *.mpproj or *.sln)
        • Build multiple MPs (multiple *.mpproj) in a solution.
        • Integrates into any VS supported Source Control systems.
      • MP Navigation Features
        • Management Pack Browser for browsing MP Items.
        • Go to Definition
        • Find All References
      • ResKit Tools integrated
        • Workflow Simulator
        • Generate Visio Diagram
        • MP Best Practice Analyzer
        • MP Spell Checker
        • MP Cookdown Analyzer
      Release History
      • 10/18/2013 - version 1.1.0.0


    • Supported Operating System
      Windows 7, Windows 8 Enterprise, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8.1, Windows Vista
        • Other Software: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013


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Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 ( #UpdateRollup #SystemCenter #OpsMgr )

This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Additionally, this article contains the installation instructions for Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 SP1.



How to obtain and install Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1

Download information

The update packages are available from Microsoft.
  • To obtain and install the updates from Microsoft Update, follow these steps on a system that has a App Controller, Operations Manager, Service Manager, or Virtual Machine Manager component installed:
    1. Click Start and then click Control Panel.
    2. In Control Panel, double-click Windows Update.
    3. In the Windows Update window, click Check Online for updates from Microsoft Update.
    4. Click Important updates are available.
    5. Select the Update Rollup 4 package and then click OK.
    6. Click Install updates to install the update package.
  • To manually download the update packages from Microsoft Update Catalog, go to the following Microsoft websites:
Operations Manager (KB2880799): Download the Operations Manager update package now.
Operations Manager - UNIX and Linux Monitoring (Management Pack update): Download the Management Pack update package now.
Service Manager (KB2887775): Download the Service Manager update package now.
Virtual Machine Manager Server (KB2887779): Download the Virtual Machine Manager Server update package now.
Virtual Machine Manager Guest Agent (KB2888944): Download the Virtual Machine Manager Guest Agent update package now.
Virtual Machine Manager Administrator Console (KB2888946): Download the Virtual Machine Manager Administrator Console update package now.

  • To manually install the update packages, run the following command from an elevated command prompt:
    msiexec.exe /update packagename
    For example, to install the Virtual Machine Manager update (KB2887779), run the following command:
    msiexec.exe /update KB2887779_vmmServer.msp

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Monday, October 21, 2013

[OpsMgr 2012 R2] Management pack updates for System Center 2012 R2 ( #OpsMgr #SystemCenter #ManagementPack )


Here are management pack update for System Center 2012 R2 



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[OpsMgr 2012][OpsMgr 2012 R2] Management Packs for Windows Server 2012 massive update !

Microsoft has published 31 updated management packs for Operations Managers for Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and OS Cloud.




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