Thursday, January 29, 2015

Microsoft Tech Days 2015 - 11, 12, 13 February #MSTECHDAYS

SAVE THE DATE!

TechDays 2015 will take place on 11,12 and 13 February.

https://techdays.microsoft.fr/
 



 

Location

Palais des Congrès de Paris
2 place de la Porte Maillot
75017 Paris
 
 
 
 

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[OpsMgr 2012] Microsoft System Center Management Pack for System Center Service Manager

This Microsoft System Center Management Pack for System Center Service Manager should be used to monitor System Center 2012 - Service Manager and above. It includes monitors for the management server as well as the Data Warehouse server. In this release of the management pack, the Data Access Service, Health Service, Configuration Service, and workflows are monitored.


http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44231



Feature Summary:
  • Monitoring for the System Center Data Access Service
  • Monitoring for the System Center Configuration Management Service
  • Monitoring the Health Service Run As Accounts
  • Workflows Monitoring

Release History:
  • 9/15/2014 - version 7.5.3079.183
  • 10/18/2013 - version 7.5.3079.0
  • 6/1/2012 - Original English Release, version 7.5.1561.0
Supported Operating System:
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
  • System Center 2012 - Operations Manager and above,
  • System Center 2012 - Service Manager and above

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager video - a Playlist posted by TechnetVN

On January 2015 the 8th, TechnatVN has posted a playlist with 11 video that show us some interesting stuffs on System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.



The 11 subjects are :
  • Publishing System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Visio Diagrams to SharePoint
  • Best way to Upgrade System Center 2012 R2 Operations ManagerSCOM 2012 - Operations Manager Monitoring Overview
  • SCOM2012 Customizing Performance Thresholds in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
  • SCOM2012 - Implementing Custom Monitoring in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Using Web Appl
  • SCOM2012 Configuring a Network Device Discovery Rule in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
  • SCOM2012 Operations Manager Management Packs
  • SCOM2012 Verifying System Center 2012 R2 Health and Performance
  • System Center Configuration Manager 2012 - Configure and Monitor Component Status
  • System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server 2014
  • Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Overview


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Friday, January 23, 2015

[OpsMgr 2012] Effective configuration dashboard : What Rule and Monitors are running on my server ? (#Dashboard #SCOM2012 #OpsMgr)

All SCOM professsionals have already been asked "What Rule and Monitors are running on my server ?" and there is no easy way to answer ! In SCOM 2007 there was a Resource kit "effective Configuration viewer" and for SCOM 2012, a new cmdlet has been introduced : Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration but the result is not user friendly !

PS C:\> $Members = (Get-SCOMGroup –DisplayName "All Windows Computers").GetRelatedMonitoringObjects()
PS C:\> $Members | ForEach-Object { Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration –Instance $_ -Path "C:\temp\$($_.DisplayName).csv" } –RecurseContainedObjects }



Thom Davis have studied the question and created a Dashboard. Here are the 2 articles that explain how it's made :



His Dashboard also is able to list :
  • Objects and classes on a selected computer
  • Active alerting Rules and Monitors for the selected computer
  • Active non-alerting Rules and Monitors for the selected computer
  • Non-active Rules and Monitors for the selected computer
Download is free here and you are invited to provide feedback, comments, suggestions and dialogue !

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Friday, January 16, 2015

[OpsMgr 2007 R2][OpsMgr 2012][OpsMgr 2012 SP1][OpsMgr 2012 R2] Be careful upgrading Base Windows Server Operating System MP to version 6.0.7294.0

Here is a quick warning  to all the SCOM administrators that would keep there infrastructure up-to-date !
Before importing the latest OS MP you must know that Microsoft has pulled the version 6.0.7294.0 of the OS MP from the catalog and reverted to version 6.0.7292.0 a full explanation of the issue has been blogged by Kevin Holman >>> Here <<<.

The best right now should be to not upgrade to the latest MP, waiting Micorosoft to release a fixed version.



There is currently a bug in this version of the MP that causes logical disks to be discovered more than once and this causes a flood of performance data to hammer your DB. This issue was discovered by Daniele Grandini.


This release 6.0.7294.0 was just a minor update with some bug fixes (Fixed more performance collection workflows that were failing for mount points)


If you have already imported the latest release, you'll not be able to go back the the previous version (removing OS base MP is quite impossible because of the dependencies from the other MPs). You should also disable the performance collection rules temporarily, until a fixed MP is released by Microsoft.

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Monday, January 12, 2015

[OpsMgr 2012] System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for SharePoint 2010

This Management Pack enables operators and administrators to manage Microsoft SharePoint 2010 based on System Center 2012. It needs to be used together with SharePoint 2010 Management Pack.


http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34697
 
 
This Management Pack enables operators and administrators to manage Microsoft SharePoint 2010 based on System Center 2012. It needs to be used together with SharePoint 2010 Management Pack.
 
Feature Summary
This Management Pack contains one Admin task. The task is designed for System Center 2012 users to run as part of SharePoint 2010 Management Pack configuration so that SharePoint 2010 components can be discovered and monitored properly by System Center 2012.
 
Release History
9/19/2012 - ​Original Release for System Center 2012, version 1.0.0.0

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[OpsMgr 2012] System Center Management Pack for Office 365 - version 7.0.5112.0

Microsoft has released yesterday an update of the System Center Management Pack for Office 365 for SCOML 2012, 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2.


http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43708
 

Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2012 R2
The Office 365 Management Pack for Operations Manager is designed for the following versions of System Center Operations Manager:
  • System Center Operations Manager 2012
  • System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1
  • System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

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Friday, January 9, 2015

[OpsMgr 2007 R2][OpsMgr 2012][OpsMgr 2012 SP1][OpsMgr 2012 R2] System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System - version 6.0.7294.0

Microsoft has published the latest version of the System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9296

Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
    The Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager is designed for the following versions of System Center Operations Manager: • System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

[OpsMgr 2007 R2][OpsMgr 2012][OpsMgr 2012 SP1][OpsMgr 2012 R2] System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System - version 6.0.7292.0

Microsoft has published the latest version of the System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System few weeks ago.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9296



Supported Operating System
  • Windows Server 2003,
  • Windows Server 2008,
  • Windows Server 2008 R2,
  • Windows Server 2012,
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
The Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager is designed for the following versions of System Center Operations Manager: • System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2
 

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[OpsMgr 2007 R2][OpsMgr 2012][OpsMgr 2012 R2] System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2014

The System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2014 enables the discovery and monitoring of SQL Server 2014 Database Engines, Databases, SQL Server Agents and other related components.


http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42573
 


The System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2014 enables the discovery and monitoring of SQL Server 2014 Database Engines, Databases, SQL Server Agents and other related components. This Management Pack is designed to run by Operations Manager 2007 R2 (except dashboards), Operations Manager 2012 or Operations Manager 2012 R2.

The monitoring provided by this management pack includes performance, availability, and configuration monitoring, as well as performance and events data collection. All monitoring workflows have predefined thresholds and complimentary knowledge base articles. You can integrate the monitoring of SQL Server 2014 components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios.
In addition to health monitoring capabilities, this management pack includes dashboards, diagram views, state views, performance views, alert views and diagnostic tasks that enable near real-time diagnostics and remediation of detected issues.

Note: This management pack does not depend on SQL Server Library management pack. You do not need to import it to enable the monitoring of SQL Server 2014.
Note: This management pack is only for SQL Server 2014. Please use this link to download the Operations Manager Management Pack for SQL Server 2005/2008/2012.


Supported Operating System
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
Other Software:
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, System Center Operations Manager 2012 or System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2
  • SQL Server 2014
Note: This MP is designed to monitor the SQL Server 2014 in the following configurations:
  • 64-bit SQL Server on 64-bit operating system.
  • Clustered configurations are supported.

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[OpsMgr 2007 R2][OpsMgr 2012] System Center Management Pack for SQL Server

The Management Pack for SQL Server provides the capabilities for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and Operations Manager 2012 to discover SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2012. It monitors SQL Server components such as database engine instances, databases, and SQL Server agents.

 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10631



The Management pack for SQL Server provides the capabilities for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and Operations Manager 2012 to discover SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2012. It monitors SQL Server components such as database engine instances, databases, and SQL Server agents.

The monitoring provided by this management pack includes performance, availability, and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of SQL Server components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios.
In addition to health monitoring capabilities, this management pack includes dashboard views, diagram views and extensive knowledge with embedded inline tasks, and views that enable near real-time diagnosis and resolution of detected issues.

Important Prerequisite Notes:
Clusters: In order to ensure that all monitoring works correctly for clustered instances of SQL Server ensure that your OpsMgr agents on the physical nodes of the cluster are running either OpsMgr 2007 R2 or OpsMgr 2007 SP1 with the most recent cumulative update for OpsMgr 2007 SP1 applied or OpsMgr 2012.



Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2012
System Requirements:
Other Software:
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and System Center Operations Manager 2012
  • SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 or 2012
Clusters: In order to ensure that all monitoring works correctly for clustered instances of SQL Server ensure that your OpsMgr agents on the physical nodes of the cluster are running either OpsMgr 2007 R2 with the most recent cumulative update for OpsMgr 2007 SP1 applied.

This MP is designed to monitor the SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, and 2012 in the following configuration:
  • 32-bit SQL Server on 32-bit operating system
  • 64-bit SQL Server on 64-bit operating system. For SQL Server 2005, only SP2 or later is supported
  • 32-bit SQL Server on 64-bit operating system
 
The SQL Server management packs also provide monitoring for clustered installations of all SQL roles that can be installed on a cluster. The following limitations apply to support for monitoring clustered installations:
  • Installations of SQL Server on cluster quorum drives are not supported, and this configuration is not suggested, as documented in Knowledge Base article 280345.
  • Support for SQL Server cluster resource groups, which contain more than one network name resource requires additional configuration and the agents must be running Operations Manager 2007 R2 or Operations Manager 2007 SP1 with the most recent cumulative update applied. Refer to Enabling multiple entries for network name resources in for instructions on the additional configuration.
  • Low-privilege discovery and monitoring is not supported on clustered configurations in this release, except SQL 2012 Cluster.


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