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Thursday, June 7, 2012

[System Center 2012] Videos, Podcast, Webcasts and Demo

Please find bellow some links for Videos, Podcast, Webcasts and Demo related to System Center 2012

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Event Type
Title
Date
Level
Podcast
Microsoft Virtual Academy: System Center 2012 Orchestrator & Service Manager–Overview (Part 1)
5/3/2012
300
Podcast
Microsoft Virtual Academy: System Center 2012 Orchestrator & Service Manager–Overview (Part 2)
5/3/2012
300
Podcast
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Protecting your Private Cloud with DPM
2/14/2012
200
Podcast
Automated Remediation with System Center 2012
1/17/2012
300
Podcast
Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Module 2) Datacenter and Private Cloud Management - Monitor and Operate Service Delivery & Automation
1/17/2012
300
Podcast
TechNet Radio: IT Time – Microsoft Virtual Academy - Private Cloud Scenarios, SQL Server 2012, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Course Previews
1/4/2012
200
Podcast
Deliver Flexible and Cost-Effective Infrastructure with System Center 2012
6/23/2011
200
Video
Microsoft Virtual Academy: System Center 2012 Orchestrator & Service Manager–Overview (Part 1)
5/3/2012
300
Video
Microsoft Virtual Academy: System Center 2012 Orchestrator & Service Manager–Overview (Part 2)
5/3/2012
300
Video
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Protecting your Private Cloud with DPM
2/14/2012
200
Video
Automated Remediation with System Center 2012
1/17/2012
300
Video
Microsoft Virtual Academy: (Module 2) Datacenter and Private Cloud Management - Monitor and Operate Service Delivery & Automation
1/17/2012
300
Video
TechNet Radio: IT Time – Microsoft Virtual Academy - Private Cloud Scenarios, SQL Server 2012, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Course Previews
1/4/2012
200
Webcast
Bare Metal to Private Cloud (Part 7 of 8): Installing and Configuring System Center 2012 - Orchestrator
6/26/2012
200
Webcast
Deliver Flexible and Cost-Effective Infrastructure with System Center 2012
6/23/2011
200




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[System Center 2012] System Center 2012 articles / documentation

Please find articles relating to System Center 2012, including the top-level TechNet site for all things relating to System Center 2012.

System Center 2012 articles / documentation

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[System Center 2012] User's Guide for System Center 2012 - Unified Installer

Updated: April 25, 2012   Microsoft direct link
Applies To: System Center 2012 - Unified Installer
The User's Guide for Microsoft System Center 2012 – Unified Installer provides information about using the Unified Installer as a single installation experience for the following components:
  • System Center 2012 - Orchestrator
  • System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
  • System Center 2012 - App Controller
  • System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
  • Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
  • System Center 2012 – Service Manager
  • System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager (DPM)
You run the Unified Installer to deploy System Center 2012 components. After you select a System Center 2012 component to install, the Unified Installer prompts you for the prerequisites that the component requires. Then, the Unified Installer installs the component and its prerequisites.
In this guide, two types of computers are described. One is an installer computer; the other is a target computer.
The installer computer is the computer where you run the Unified Installer; it is the computer where you run setup.exe.
The target computer is the computer where you want to install a System Center 2012 component. You run the Unified Installer on the installer computer to deploy System Center 2012 components on target computers.
The Unified Installer uses runbook technology that is in System Center 2012 - Orchestrator. Therefore, when you run the Unified Installer, you will be required to install Orchestrator. You have two options regarding where you install Orchestrator. You can either:
  • Install Orchestrator on the same computer where you are running Unified Installer
  • Install Orchestrator on a remote computer.
If you install Orchestrator on the same computer where you are running Unified Installer, that computer is considered both an installer computer and a target computer. If you install Orchestrator on a remote computer, the computer where you run Unified Installer is an installer computer and the remote computer hosting Orchestrator is a target computer.
You can run Unified Installer on a computer running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) (the installer computer). You will need a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 for Orchestrator and other System Center 2012 components (the target computer).
The Unified Installer must be run on the local Orchestrator server, or it must be run remotely on any computer that is not in the scope of component deployment.
To prepare an installer computer on which you are going run the Unified Installer, do the following:
  1. Edit the local computer policy for Windows Remote Management.
  2. Make sure that you have copies of the installation media for Orchestrator and for the System Center 2012 components that you want to install.
  3. Make sure that you have copies of the installation media for the prerequisites. For a list of prerequisites, see System Requirements for System Center 2012 - Unified Installer.
To prepare a target computer on which you are going to deploy a System Center component, do the following:
  1. Make sure that the account credentials you use to run the Unified Installer are also valid for a local administrator on the target computer.
  2. Edit the local computer policy for Windows Remote Management.
On both the installer and target computers, make sure that no restart is pending.
You must install only one System Center component per server. Unified Installer will run only on Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Unified Installer topics

Downloadable Documentation

You can download a copy of this technical documentation from the Microsoft Download Center. Always use the TechNet library for the most up-to-date information.

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[System Center 2012] Installing System Center 2012 using the Unified Installer

Microsoft recommends you a very good blog that discusses installation of System Center 2012.  It explains the processes of installation for each component with a lot of screenshots.
  • Advisor
  • App Controller
  • Configuration Manager
  • Data Protection Manager
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Operations Manager
  • Orchestrator
  • Service Manager
  • Unified Installer
  • Virtual Machine Manager
Please find this blog here: Installing System Center 2012 using the Unified Installer

This can provide you a starting point with System Center 2012

You can also find the documentation User's Guide for Microsoft System Center 2012 – Unified Installer here

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

[Free ebook] Introducing Windows Server 2012

Here is the most recent free ebook offered by Microsoft Press. Introducing Windows Server 2012, by Mitch Tulloch, is now ready for free download! Please see the links below to download one or all of the available formats.

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If you prefer a hard copy of the book, you can order it here for $14.99.
Introducing Windows Server 2012 is 256 pages and includes 5 chapters loaded with insider information from the Windows Server Team.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The business need for Windows Server 2012 The rationale behind cloud computing Making the transition
Technical requirements for successful cloud computing
Four ways Windows Server 2012 delivers value for cloud computing Foundation for building your private cloud

Chapter 2 Foundation for building your private cloud A complete virtualization platform
Increase scalability and performance Business continuity for virtualized workloads

Chapter 3 Highly available, easy-to-manage multi-server platform
Continuous availability
Cost efficiency
Management efficiency

Chapter 4 Deploy web applications on premises and in the cloud Scalable and elastic web platform
Support for open standards

Chapter 5 Enabling the modern workstyle Access virtually anywhere, from any device
Full Windows experience
Enhanced security and compliance

To read more about the latest news on Windows Server 2012 and to download the release candidate, go here.

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Monday, June 4, 2012

[Powershell] Creating your own Windows Powershell Profile - Part 2

---------- Go to Part 1 ----------

What goes in my profile ?

This part will be SCOM oriented by you must keep in mind that all cmdlets, scripts, functions and any command in powershell could be added to your profile.
  • Function to connect OpsMgr Environment
This function will help you to connect a management group by running a simple powershell command at prompt : Connect RMSName1

This command will open a windows that ask you to enter the password for your crédentials


Here is the few powershell line to copy in your profile file : (Replace the red words by your RMS name + your credential). Note that you can set the password in parameters of the Get-Credentials( ) but this is not really secure.
  1. function Connect  ([string]$RMS)
  2. {
  3. switch ($RMS.toupper()) {
  4.              "PROD" {$RMS="RMSName1"}
  5.              "DEV" {$RMS="RMSName2"}
  6.              "PP" {$RMS="RMSName3"}
  7.              "PREPROD" {$RMS="RMSName3"}
  8.               default {"RMS  - $RMS - not valid"; exit }
  9.              }
  10. # Load Operation Manager environment
  11. if ( (Get-pssnapin | where {$_.Name -eq "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client" }).Name -ne "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client" ) {
  12.               add-pssnapin "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client" -ErrorVariable errSnapin; }
  13. $creds = Get-Credential("MyDomain\MyAccount");
  14. $connection = New-ManagementGroupConnection -ConnectionString: $RMS -Credential: $creds #-ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue;
  15. # Move off of a drive to avoid deadlock.
  16. Set-Location "OperationsManagerMonitoring::" | Out-Null;
  17. }
  • Function to list process information
This function will run a WMI query on processes to get all information. Running p-list alone will list all the processes, p-list with a process name in argument will only give you information about the process in argument.



Here is the code to copy in your profile file :

  1. function p-list([string]$name="*")
  2. {
  3. $WMIQuery = get-wmiobject win32_service | sort ProcessId | group-object ProcessId
  4. $Processes = @(get-process $name | sort Id)
  5. $i=0
  6. $j=0
  7. while($i -lt $Processes.count -and $j -lt $WMIQuery.count)
  8.  {
  9.       if($Processes[$i].Id -lt $WMIQuery[$j].Name)
  10.        {
  11.        $i++;
  12.        continue;
  13.        }
  14.        if($Processes[$i].id -gt $WMIQuery[$j].Name)
  15.        {
  16.        $j++;
  17.        continue;
  18.        }
  19.        if($Processes[$i].id -eq $WMIQuery[$j].Name)
  20.        {
  21.        $Processes[$i]| add-member NoteProperty service $WMIQuery[$j].group;
  22.        $i++;
  23.        $j++;
  24.        }
  25.  }
  26. $Processes;
  27. }
  • Function to list active SDK connection information
This function will list all actives SDK connections as already explained here :
 http://tetris38.blogspot.fr/2012/03/opsmgr-2007-powershell-script-to-list.html
 
  1. function List-SDK()
  2. {
  3. # Get the connected users
  4. $SDKUsers = Get-ManagementGroupConnection | foreach-object {$_.ManagementGroup.getConnectedUserNames()} | sort
  5. $SDKNumberConnections = $SDKUsers | measure-object
  7. # number of active connections
  8. $SDKNumberConnections.count
  10. # count active connections per users
  11. $hash =@{}
  12. $SDKUsers | % {$hash[$_] = $hash[$_] + 1 }
  13. $Result = $hash.getenumerator() | ? { $_.value -gt 0 }
  14. $Result | sort value -DESC
  15. }
Result is like :


  • Shell Windows tuning
You can define some parameters of your powershell Shell Windows like the title, the background color and the foreground color by copying the line below in your profile :

  1. # Change Title - to "Windows PowerShell - your account"
  2. $Host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle = "Windows PowerShell - " + $env:Username
  3. # Change background color
  4. $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor = "DarkBlue"
  5. # Change Text color
  6. $Host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor = "White"


You can download all the example I've provided in the file below

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.


Version:1.0Date published:5/24/2012

Files in this download

The links in this section correspond to files available for this download. Download the files appropriate for you.
File nameSize
Active Directory Certificate Services.zip1.9 MBDownload
Active Directory Domain Services.zip2.2 MBDownload
DirectAccess.zip2.0 MBDownload
Dynamic Datacenter.zip3.1 MBDownload
Exchange Online - Evaluating Software-plus-Services.zip1.6 MBDownload
Exchange Server.zip2.9 MBDownload
File Services.zip1.6 MBDownload
Forefront Identity Manager.zip1.9 MBDownload
Forefront Unified Access Gateway.zip1.8 MBDownload
Internet Information Services.zip1.5 MBDownload
IPD - All.zip62.5 MBDownload
IPD Series Introduction.zip143 KBDownload
Malware Response.zip2.2 MBDownload
MED-V.zip1.9 MBDownload
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6.zip3.0 MBDownload
Print Services.zip1.5 MBDownload
Remote Desktop Services.zip2.3 MBDownload
Selecting the Right NAP Architecture.zip2.8 MBDownload
Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology.zip1.5 MBDownload
SharePoint Online - Evaluating Software-plus-Services.zip2.2 MBDownload
SharePoint Server.zip2.4 MBDownload
SQL Server.zip2.2 MBDownload
System Center 2012 - Service Manager.zip   New !2.8 MBDownload
System Center Configuration Manager 2007.zip1.9 MBDownload
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007.zip2.1 MBDownload
System Center Operations Manager 2007.zip2.3 MBDownload
System Center Service Manager 2010.zip2.7 MBDownload
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.zip1.3 MBDownload
Terminal Services.zip1.2 MBDownload
Windows Deployment Services.zip1.7 MBDownload
Windows Server Virtualization.zip1.8 MBDownload
Windows User State Virtualization.zip1.7 MBDownload
Windows_Optimized_Desktop_Scenarios.zip435 KBDownload

Overview

Infrastructure Planning and Design guides share a common structure, including:
  • Definition of the technical decision flow through the planning process.
  • Listing of decisions to be made and the commonly available options and considerations.
  • Relating the decisions and options to the business in terms of cost, complexity, and other characteristics.
  • Framing decisions in terms of additional questions to the business to ensure a comprehensive alignment with the appropriate business landscape.

These guides complement product documentation by focusing on infrastructure design options.

Each guide leads the reader through critical infrastructure design decisions, in the appropriate order, evaluating the available options for each decision against its impact on critical characteristics of the infrastructure. The IPD Series highlights when service and infrastructure goals should be validated with the organization and provides additional questions that should be asked of service stakeholders and decision makers.

IPD consists of the following downloadable packages:
  • New! System Center 2012 - Service Manager
  • Active Directory Certificate Services
  • Active Directory Domain Services
  • DirectAccess
  • Dynamic Datacenter
  • Exchange Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services
  • File Services
  • Forefront Identity Manager 2010
  • Forefront Unified Access Gateway
  • Internet Information Services
  • IPD Series Introduction
  • Malware Response
  • Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6
  • Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)
  • Print Services
  • Remote Desktop Services
  • Selecting the Right NAP Architecture
  • Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology
  • SharePoint Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services
  • SharePoint Server 2010
  • SQL Server
  • System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 and Forefront Endpoint Protection
  • System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 with SP1
  • System Center Operations Manager 2007
  • System Center Service Manager
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
  • Terminal Services
  • Windows Deployment Services
  • Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
  • Windows Server Virtualization
  • Windows User State Virtualization

The guides are available as individual downloads or as a single all-in-one package.

For more information about Infrastructure Planning and Design, read the Frequently Asked Questions.

Send questions or feedback to us directly at mailto:ipdfdbk@microsoft.com?subject=Feedback%20on%20Infrastructure Planning and Design

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