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OpsMgr 2012: New feature – the Agent Control Panel applet
One of the many new features in OpsMgr 2012 is the Agent control panel applet. While this applet has several key features, the primary use is the ability to add and remove management groups from...
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OpsMgr: Logical Disk free space alerts don’t show percent and MB free values...
I recently wrote about the new Base OS Monitoring Packs that shipped, adding many new features and fixes for monitoring the OS. You can read more about that new release HERE. While this MP update...
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OpsMgr: Network utilization scripts in BaseOS MP version 6.0.6958.0 may cause...
Recently I discussed some of the changes in the Base OS MP version 6.0.6958.0 OpsMgr- MP Update- New Base OS MP 6.0.6958.0 adds Cluster Shared Volume monitoring, BPA, new rep One of the changes in...
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Security in Operations Manager – some perspectives and typical customer...
The concept of this article is to give you a general overview of the security model, and rights required, to deploy and operate System Center Operations Manager. For each section, I will link to more...
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Test/Demo OpsMgr 2012 network monitoring with Jalasoft’s network device...
Testing the functionality of the network monitoring components of OpsMgr is pretty simple, when you have access to a lot of switch, router, and firewall equipment, and can get past the SNMP strings and...
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OpsMgr: How to create a group of all Windows Computers that are NOT a member...
This is a pretty common request, and I have been meaning to write up an example of this. Suppose you have the following scenario: You are monitoring 1000 Windows Server with OpsMgr. In your...
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Deploying Unix/Linux Agents using OpsMgr 2012
Microsoft started including Unix and Linux monitoring in OpsMgr directly in OpsMgr 2007 R2, which shipped in 2009. Some significant updates have been made to this for OpsMgr 2012. Primarily these...
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OpsMgr: How to monitor non-Microsoft SQL databases in SCOM – an example using...
OpsMgr has the capability to run a synthetic transaction, to query a remote database from a watcher node. This can be used to simulate an application query to a back end database, and we have built in...
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OpsMgr 2012: a quickstart deployment guide
There is already a very good deployment guide posted on TechNet here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh457006.aspx The TechNet deployment guide provides an excellent walkthrough of...
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Orchestrator 2012: a quickstart deployment guide
System Center Orchestrator 2012 is extremely easy to setup and deploy. There are only a handful of prerequisites, and most can be handled by the setup installer routine. The TechNet documentation...
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OpsMgr 2012: Configure notifications
Setting up notifications for email, IM, or command channels is almost identical to how this was configured in OpsMgr 2007 R2. This article will just serve as a walk through to the process, such as...
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OpsMgr 2012: Cumulative Update Rollup 1 (UR1) ships–and my experience...
Cumulative Update Rollup 1 (UR1) for OpsMgr 2012 has shipped. Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29697 KB link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2686249 Here is...
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OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU6 rollup hotfix ships – and my experience installing it
The Cumulative Update 6 (CU6) for OpsMgr 2007 R2 has shipped Our previous cumulative update (CU5) shipped back in July 2011, so this one has been a while in the making. The KB article describing...
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Windows Server 2012 – Release Candidate is available
Most of you probably already heard about this – but I need to make sure I also get the word out. Windows Server 2012 hit RC (Release Candidate) and is available for download. Download:...
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Windows 8 Release Preview has shipped
Along with Windows Server 2012 RC, Windows 8 Release preview has also shipped: Windows 8 Release Preview Download: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download Get started:...
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Windows Server 2012: Creating a NIC TEAM for Load Balancing and Failover
One of the new features in Windows Server 2012 is Microsoft NIC Teaming. In the past, NIC teaming was handled by the NIC vendor’s driver and management software. This was often problematic as many...
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Windows Server 2012: Red dashboard right after install? Run BPA
Windows Server 2012 Server Manager has a dashboard view for all your servers you connect in Server Manager: This dashboard shows all your connected servers, and their roles. It also will display a...
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OpsMgr: AD Client monitoring - There are not enough GC’s available, and other...
Ran into this one recently during a Proof of Concept at a customer using the ADMP. You implement the AD Management pack, then optionally enable AD Client monitoring per the ADMP Guide. Almost...
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Some of the beta Private Cloud exams from MMS are scored and available
Many took the beta exams at MMS 2012 this year, for the Private Cloud certifications. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-private-cloud-all.aspx The two tests that most took...
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OpsMgr: MP Update: New Base OS MP 6.0.6972.0 Adds new cluster disks, changes...
There is a new Base OS MP version 6.0.6972.0 available here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9296 Be very careful updating to this new version – there are multiple changes...
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