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Friday, July 26, 2013

Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 ( #SCOM #OpsMgr #SystemCenter )

This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Additionally, this article contains the installation instructions for Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 SP1.
 
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2836751


 App Controller Update (KB2853227)
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App Controller Setup Update (KB2823452)
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Data Protection Manager Update (KB2853210)
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Operations Manager Update (KB2852565)
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Virtual Machine Manager Administration Console Update (KB2858509)
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Virtual Machine Manager Server Update (KB2858510)
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Virtual Machine Manager Guest Agent Update (KB2858511)
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Operations Manager Update (KB2852565)

Issue 1
The Audit Collection Services (ACS) dtPrincipal tables sometimes are missing a user's domain name.
  
Issue 2
If you decide to see more than two days' worth of data in a Service Level Dashboard view, the data is displayed from the Daily Aggregated data and does not contain the last two days' worth of data.
  
Issue 3
The Health Service stops collecting performance data on Windows Server 2008 R2.
  
Issue 4
The web console crashes when the Active Alerts view and the Windows Computer State view are accessed at the same time when Internet Explorer 9 is used.
 
Issue 5
A memory leak may occur in the console when the performance widgets dashboard is left open.
 
Issue 6
When the Operator role is used, many 26319 events are generated. This causes performance problems.
  
Issue 7
Health Service availability reports are incorrect because of duplicate entries in the HealthServiceOutage table.
  
Issue 8
When the Orchestrator Integration pack is under a high-load scenario, a software development kit (SDK) process deadlock may occur.
  
Issue 9
This update includes fixes to the following Advisor Connector issues:
  • Group opt-in
  • Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager gateway and Microsoft monitoring
  • Windows PowerShell cmdlets
  • Health state
  • Microsoft Knowledge Base article links in Operations Manager console alerts
 
  

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

[OpsMgr 2007 R2][OpsMgr 2012] BizTalk Server 2013 Monitoring Management Pack ( #OpsMgr #SCOM #BizTalk #ManagementPack )

BizTalk Server 2013 Management Pack offers monitoring capabilities for BizTalk artifacts and BizTalk-related platform components.

Direct link on Microsoft article

Note: There are multiple files available for this download. Once you click on the “Download” button, you will be prompted to select the files you need.
Version:
Date Published:
7.0.1033.07/10/2013
File name:
File size:
BizTalk Server 2013 Monitoring Management Pack Guide.docx130 KB
BizTalk2013MP.msi692 KB
ReadMe.htm21 KB
    BizTalk Server 2013 Management Pack offers monitoring capabilities for BizTalk artifacts and BizTalk-related platform components. It allows administrators to monitor health state of various BizTalk artifacts such as Send Ports, Orchestrations etc. and platform artifacts such as Host Instances (BizTalk service). Further, this mp includes performance views, diagnostic capability and alerts.

    Feature Summary
    BizTalk Server 2013 MP includes the following enhancements:
    • Updated discovery to handle a large amount of BizTalk Server artifacts
    • Increased suppression on rules to show only the important messages
    • Fixed the issue with the discovery of the installed BizTalk Server version

    Release History
    • 7/10/2013 - Initial English release, version 7.0.1033.0

System Requirements

Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012
    • Required Software:
      • System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Or System Center Operations Manager 2012
      • Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013

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[OpsMgr 2012] Making DELL management packs lighter for your management servers ( #OpsMgr #SCOM #DELL #ManagementPack #SDK )

DELL has recently released a very comprehensive management pack suite for Operations Manager, you can download the suite here.

The suite can monitor Dell servers, DRAC and chassis:
  • Server inband monitoring – for Windows servers with an Operations Manager agent installed
  • Server Out of Band monitoring – for servers with any operating system (or without OS if this matters) it uses a WS-Management interface provided with the latest iDRAC models
  • Remote DRAC monitoring – for DRAC monitoring
  • Remote CMC monitoring – for CMC monitoring
The suite also provides a way to enable or disable specific monitoring scopes directly from the monitoring space of the Operations Manager Console, this functionality is called “Feature Monitoring”, and the ability to correlate chassis slot with actual servers.
Alas all this goodness has a major drawback many of these modules have dependencies to the management servers and use direct access to the SDK    

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[OpsMgr 2012] Management Packs for Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview ( #OpsMgr #SCOM #ManagementPack )

Note: There are multiple files available for this download. Once you click on the “Download” button, you will be prompted to select the files you need.
 
 
 
  • Active Directory Certificate Services
  • Active Directory Domain Service
  • Active Directory Federation Services
  • Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
  • Active Directory Rights Management Service
  • DFS Namespaces
  • DFS Replication
  • DHCP
  • DNS
  • Failover Cluster
  • Hyper-V
  • MSMQ
  • Network Load Balancing
  • Print Services
  • Remote Desktop Services
  • Windows Deployment Services
  • Windows File Server
  • Windows Server Essentials
  • Windows Server Operating System
  • Windows Server Update Services
  • Windows Server Web Application Proxy
 

System Requirements

Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview
    System Center Operations Manager 2012 System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 Preview

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Monday, July 8, 2013

System Center 2012 R2 Preview – Evaluation (VHD) are now available ( #OpsMgr #SCOM #VHD #Orchestrator )

You must register to receive this download. Please click the Continue button to register.


System Center 2012 R2 Preview Configuration Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
System Center 2012 R2 Preview Operations Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
System Center 2012 R2 Preview Orchestrator – Evaluation (VHD)
System Center 2012 R2 Preview App Controller – Evaluation (VHD)
System Center 2012 R2 Preview Service Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
System Center 2012 R2 Preview Service Manager Data Warehouse – Evaluation (VHD)
System Center 2012 R2 Preview Data Protection Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
System Center 2012 R2 Preview Virtual Machine Manager – Evaluation (VHD)

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Monday, July 1, 2013

[Orchestrator] Orchestrator Best Practice Series ( #Orchestrator )


 is offering us an Orchestrator Best Practice Series of post. The 3 first one are listed below but open this official link for more updates

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Download and Test Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 in Preview version ! ( #Windows #Win2012R2 )


I'm a bit late to announce that Microsoft has just published the Preview verison for Windows Server 2012 R2. 


Download links :

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[Toolkit] Coretech WMI and PowerShell Browser ( #Powershell #WMI )


Coretech is happy to announce their first version of WMI and PowerShell Explorer tool. 

The main reason of this tool is to simplify their own work and hopefully, it will help others also who are working with Configuration Manager.

Find the tool here 

Description

Coretech WMI and PowerShell Explorer is a freeware tool with two main feature sets.
A powerful WMI tool that allows you to connect to and work with WMI locally and remotely. With the tool you can browse WMI namespaces, classes, methods, properties and class instances. Besides being a WMI browser the Coretech WMI and PowerShell Explorer allows also to export query results and namespace methods.
A PowerShell Explorer tool that allows you to import built-in or custom PowerShell modules to browse help topics. Besides assisting you with the built-in/online help, the tool is cloud integrated with all the System Center Configuration Manager PowerShell examples found on www.cm12sdk.net

Features explanation here

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[Orchestrator] Integrating Cluster Aware Updating with Operations Manager Maintenance Mode – Pre and Post Update Scripts ( #SCOM #Orchestrator )


Neil Peterson has published on June the 17th 2013 a step-by-step post to demonstrating how to use the Cluster Aware Updating Pre and Post-Update Script execution feature to place each node of the target cluster into Operations Manager maintenance mode before the cluster aware updating process is executed. This exercise can be extended to any pre or post activates that you would like to perform on you cluster nodes at maintenance time.

Direct link to Neil's Article


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[System Center Suite] Download and test system center suite 1012 R2 Preview (#SystemCenter #SCOM #DPM #Orchestrator #SCSM #VMM #SCCM #OpsMgr)



The following links take you to the What's New topics for System Center 2012 R2.





You can download product here:

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[OpsMgr 2012] System Requirements: System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager ( #OpsMgr #SCOM ) - Updated: June 24, 2013

This document provides information about the operating systems, hardware configurations, software requirements, installation combinations, and security configurations for System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager. This document focuses on the system requirements, and it mentions unsupported configurations only when necessary. If operating systems, hardware configurations, software requirements, installation combinations, and security configurations are not presented here, they have not been tested and are not supported.

Note : For system requirements across all components of System Center, see System Requirements for System Center 2012 R2.

The Prerequisites checker is no longer a separate option in Setup. However, you can begin the installation process to check the hardware and software prerequisites, and then cancel installation after the required prerequisites have been determined.
We recommend that you also review the key concepts of Operations Manager. Documents to review include the following:
This document contains the following sections:

Operations Manager Virtualization Support

Microsoft supports running all Operations Manager server features in any physical or virtual environment that meets the minimum requirements that are stated in this document. However, for performance reasons, we recommend that you store the operational database and data warehouse database on a directly attached physical hard drive, and not on a virtual disk. Specifically, virtual computers that are running any Operations Manager server feature must not use any functionality that does not immediately commit all activity on the virtual computer to the virtual hard drive. This includes making use of point-in-time snapshots and writing changes to a temporary virtual hard drive. This is true for every virtualization technology that is used with Operations Manager.

Minimum Screen Resolution Requirements

Operations Manager is optimized for screen resolutions of 1280 x 1024 or larger. The minimum supported screen resolution is 1024 x 768.
Minimum Hardware Requirements
Use the Operations Manager Sizing Helper to determine hardware requirements for each Operations Manager server feature. If you want to install more than one feature on the same computer, use the higher of the recommended hardware requirements for any of the combined features.

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