Friday, May 22, 2015

[Free Ebook] Free ebook: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Field Experience #Free #Ebook

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Field Experience (ISBN 9780735695825), by Danny Hermans, Uwe Stürtz, Mihai Sarbulescu; Mitch Tulloch, Series Editor is downloadable for free.
 
Download all formats (PDF, Mobi and ePub) at the Microsoft Virtual Academy.
 
 

Introduction

If you’re responsible for designing, configuring, implementing, or managing a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager environment, then this book is for you. This book will help you understand what you can do to enhance your Operations Manager environment, and will give you the opportunity to better understand the inner workings of the product, even if you are a seasoned Operations Manager administrator.
This book assumes that you have a deep working knowledge of the Operations Manager product and its concepts, that you understand the concept of management packs, and that you are basically familiar with Microsoft Azure as an infrastructure-as-a-service platform. This is a book about best practices, design concepts, how-tos, and in-depth technical troubleshooting. It covers the role of the Operations Manager product, the best practices for working with management packs, how to use the reporting feature to simplify managing the product, how to thoroughly troubleshoot, and how to use and install Operations Manager in a Microsoft Azure Public Cloud environment.
 

About the companion content

The companion content for this book can be downloaded from the following page:
http://aka.ms/OpsMgrFE/files
The companion content includes the following:
  • The SQL query in Chapter 1 that you can run in SQL Server Management Studio to determine which collation settings you are using
  • The series of commands used in the example in Chapter 2 to run workflow tracing manually
  • The Windows PowerShell script used in Chapter 4 to view all TLMEs that exist order per resource pool and per current owning pool member (management server)
  • The various SELECT queries included in Chapter 4
  • A PDF file titled HealthService Event Reference that provides information about the events that Operations Manager can log to its event log from the HealthService features.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Daniele Muscetta, Microsoft Program Manager for Azure Operational Insights, for his review and comments on the Azure Operational Insights section of Chapter 5; Stefan Stranger, Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer, for the review of and his input on the remainder of Chapter 5; and Danny’s loving wife, Vita Martinsone, for the pre-editing and formatting of our work.

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[Orcherstrator] System Center Orchestrator Migration Toolkit Version 7.3 #Azure #Orchestrator #Toolkit

A collection of tools for migrating integration packs, standard activities, and runbooks from System Center 2012 – Orchestrator to Azure Automation and Service Management Automation. 


The System Center Orchestrator Migration Toolkit consists of the following tools.

Integration Pack Converter
This tool converts integration packs that were created using the Orchestrator Integration Toolkit to integration modules based on Windows PowerShell that can be imported into Azure Automation or Service Management Automation. Using the tool’s wizard, you can select the activities in the integration pack that will be converted to cmdlets in the integration module. Placeholders are created for monitor activities that are not supported in Azure Automation or Service Management Automation.

Standard Activities module
Integration module that contains all of the standard activities used in Orchestrator Runbooks that can be imported into Azure Automation or Service Management Automation. This module must be installed in your environment prior to importing any runbook converted with the Runbook Converter.

Runbook Converter (coming soon)
This tool converts Orchestrator runbooks into graphical runbooks that can be imported into Azure Automation.



System Requirements
Supported Operating System
  • Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
  • Supported Operating System
  • Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
Recommended Configuration for System Center Orchestrator Migration Toolkit
  • RAM – minimum 1GB recommended 2GB
  • Disk space minimum 200MB
  • CPU Dual Core or better
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • .Net 4.5

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Monday, May 18, 2015

System Center Operations Manager Customer Survey

The Operations Manager team is interested in your feedback! They are committed to keeping customers like you happy and productive. Your response to this survey will help them better understand your needs and problems so that they can improve the next version of Operations Manager.



To answer the survey, click >>>   HERE   <<<
 

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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

System Center 2016 Technical Preview 2 is released

This System Center 2016 Technial Preview 2 release, available here on the TechNet Evaluation Center since one week seems to come earlier than previously annouced by Microsoft...


Microsoft System Center Technical Preview 2 delivers unified management across on-premises, service provider, and Microsoft Azure environments, thereby enabling the Microsoft Cloud Platform. System Center offers exciting new features and enhancements across infrastructure provisioning, infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, automation, backup and IT service management.
As a reminder, these are early pre-release builds. Many of the features and scenarios are still in development. As such, this preview is not intended for production environments, labs, nor full evaluations.
System Center Technical Preview 2 includes System Center Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection Technical Preview.
System Center Configuration Manager helps IT manage PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving employees access to corporate applications on the devices that they choose. When Configuration Manager is integrated with Microsoft Intune, you can manage corporate-connected PCs, Macs and UNIX/Linux servers along with cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android, all from a single management console.
System Center Endpoint Protection protects client and server operating systems against the latest malware threats. It is built on System Center Configuration Manager, giving customers a unified infrastructure for client security and compliance management.


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Monday, May 11, 2015

[OpsMgr 2012 SP1] Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Pack for Windows Server Storage Spaces 2012 R2 - Version 1.1.253.0

This management pack monitors the health of Windows Server Storage Spaces



System Requirements
Supported Operating System
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 or later 

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[OpsMgr 2007 R2] Windows Server Print Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

The Microsoft Windows Server Print Server Management Pack monitors the performance and availability of print servers running on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.
In addition to monitoring the health of print servers, the management pack can also provide insight into the status of shared printers. By detecting, alerting on, and automatically responding to critical events and performance indicators, this management pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible operating system service outages.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3290




Feature Summary
The management pack provides functionality to:
  • Monitor performance and Windows events
  • Display detailed monitoring data through views
  • Allow operator to manage print servers
  • Ensure correct configurations

Release History
  • 6/1/2007 - Original release of the English version, version 6.0.5000.0
  • 3/18/2008 - Updated release, version 6.0.5000.36
  • 8/25/2008 - Updated release to add support for Windows Server 2008, version 6.0.6392.0
  • 12/07/2012 - Updated release to add support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, version 6.0.7004.0
  • 5/08/2015 - Updated release to add support for print clusters, version 6.0.7294.0

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[System Center TP2 Operations Manager] System Center Technical Preview Management Packs for Open Source Software

The Management Packs for Open Source Software enable discovering, monitoring, and managing MySQL Server and Apache HTTP Server with System Center Technical Preview – Operations Manager.
 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46924
 
 
Feature Summary
OSS Management Packs for System Center TP2 Operations Manager
  • Apache HTTP Server 2.2 - 2.4
  • MySQL Server 5.0 , 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 / MariaDB 5.5, 10.0

System Requirements
Supported Operating System
  • Windows 10 Tech Preview , Windows Server Tech Preview
System Center Technical Preview - Operations Manager

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