[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 Software: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

[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

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• 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

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.

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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:

App Controller (KB2887822): Download the App Controller update package now.

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

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

Here are management pack update for System Center 2012 R2 

• System Center Management Pack for System Center 2012 - Service Manager
• System Center Management Pack for Service Reporting
• System Center Management Pack for Windows Azure Pack
• System Center Management Pack for Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites

[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.

• System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System
• System Center 2012 Management Pack for Microsoft Windows Server AD CS 2012
• System Center Management Pack for Active Directory Rights Management Services 2012 R2
• Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (ADLDS) Management Pack
• System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
• System Center 2012 Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Access
• System Center Management Pack for Windows Print Server 2012 R2
• System Center 2012 Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Deployment Services
• System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 DHCP
• System Center Management Pack for WSUS on Windows Server 2012 R2
• System Center 2012 Management Pack for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Internet Information Service 8
• System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Network Load Balancing
• System Center 2012 Management Pack for Multi-Tenant RemoteAccess 2012
• System Center Management Pack for Web Application Proxy
• System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
• System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Cluster