[OpsMgr 2012 R2] Upgrading Operations Manager from 2012 SP1 to 2012 R2 step by step

Brett Boone has share with System Center Central site a step-by-step guide to upgrade your Operations Manager from 2012 SP1 to 2012 R2.

The following blog posts discusses the process to upgrade from Operations Manager 2012 SP1 to Operations Manager 2012 R2. This blog post also shows the steps required to integrate the new System Center Advisor functionality available with 2012 R2.

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[Orchestrator 2012] Patching Orchestrator Runbook Servers while Maintaining High-Availability

Balancing server patching with maintaining the availability of the services that run on these servers can be a difficult task for an IT Pro, with lots of repetitive, time-consuming, and error-prone steps. Luckily, Orchestrator has emerged as an effective automation tool to help IT Pros manage the patching process. But what about when the Orchestrator service itself needs to be patched? How can an IT Pro ensure their enterprise automation continues to function despite the patching of the servers running Orchestrator components?

Joe Levy has published an interesting post to expose all steps to follow to be able to maintain high availability when patching Runbook Servers.

Read the original post here

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[Orchestrator 2012 SP1] QuickStart deployment guide by Kevin Holman

Once again Kevin Holman published an interesting article to easily set up and deploy Orchestrator 2012 SP1.

Read the full article here

You 'll find some link to the full documentation and some definition, pre-requisites and step by step guide to cover a basic install of System Center Orchestrator 2012 at a generic customer.This is to be used as a template only, for a customer to implement as their own pilot or POC deployment guide.  It is intended to be general in nature and will require the customer to modify it to suit their specific data and processes.

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