This week the annual Microsoft Teched North America convention is being held in New Orleans, Lousiana. The conference kicked off today with a opening keynote by Microsoft president Bob Muglia. Hereunder you will find a comprehensive summary. Before the annual TechEd North America keynote kicked off in New Orleans, the audience got a treat from a local band perfoming music from artists like James Brown.
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On the 30th of April Microsoft released Cumulative Update 2 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.
In this article i will detail my experiences from the installation, which didn't work out in the first place.
Before starting the update, i did the following:
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Downloaded the update
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Read the corresponding KB article: KB979257
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Read the blogpost from Kevin Holman detailing his experiences.
Well, especially the article from Kevin Holman was a very interesting read, so i decided to follow this article and use this as a guide during my upgrade.
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Maarten Damen has released a Management Pack for Trend Micro IMSS.
Trend Micro IMSS (Interscan Messaging Security Suite) is a mail gateway solution, which includes anti-spam and anti-virus solutions. With this Management Pack you are able to monitor the health and performance of your IMSS server(s).
Download:
Trend Micro IMSS Operations Manager Management Pack
In this article I will explain a challenge I experienced while installing the OpsMgr web-console on a management server. After installation of the OpsMgr webconsole I got the following error: "Server error in '/' Application". And as it turned out finding the problem wasn't that easy.
I had a strange problem while installing the OpsMgr web-console at a customer. Within their test environment I decided to install the OpsMgr web-console on the management server which runs on Windows Server 2008. So I started with installing the AJAX component, and adding the webserver role with the needed role features.(see: reference1 at the end of this article)
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The System Center Operations Manager team released an update for the OpsMgr R2 Management Pack on the 19th of Februari. The version is 6.1.7599.0. and can only be installed if you have System Center Operations Manager R2 installed.
The Operations Manager management pack helps you to monitor the health of your Operations Manager environment, now that's a nice "Chicken-Egg" scenario.
Before you install this management pack, read the Management Pack Guide, which can be downloaded from the link below. The Management Pack guide contains important information about what to do before and after the installation of the Management Pack.
Download the OpsMgr R2 Management Pack and the Management Pack guide
After upgrading to SCCM 2007 SP2, AD discovery methods will fail to bind across external trusts.
The failure occurs because of a change made in Service Pack 2 which makes the product more secure by requiring authentication for AD binds. As discovery is performed by the site server System account, authentication on the network requires Kerberos which is not supported across external trusts.(
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The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Cumulative Update 2 includes System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Agent Update (
KB973583) and additional bug fixes.
Note: Keep in mind that the Management Packs associated with this release have
not yet been published, so you'll have to wait to use the full functionality of this update.
Note 2: The Updated Management Packs have been posted, you can find them
here
Download:
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Cumulative Update 2
As you know the most recent SCOM documentation can be found on Technet, see:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498235.aspx.
Sometimes though it's handy to have the documentation available offline. Microsoft provides a download where you can download the documentation for reference.
Download:
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation
The Release Candidate for DPM 2010 is now available for public download.
Download:
System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 Release Candidate
A Superflow is an interactive content model which provides a structured and interactive interface for viewing documentation. Each SuperFlow includes comprehensive information about a specific dataflow, workflow, or process.
The following superflows have been (re)released:
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SuperFlow for Configuring Software Updates
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Software Update Deployment SuperFlow
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SuperFlow for Creating SRS Report Models in Configuration Manager 2007
When designing an System Center Operations Manager infrastructure, depending on the situation you should make a decision on how you are going to deploy the agents to the servers (and perhaps even workstations) you are going to monitor.
In this article I will give an overview of the different installation options, and try to summarize the advantages and advantages of using them. This is important because the method used to deploy your agents will what you can do with the agent once deployed.
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The DFS Namespaces Management Pack monitors servers running Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2, and Windows Server 2003. It can also be configured to monitor the health of DFS Namespaces from client computers running Windows Vista® or Windows® XP. This management pack monitors events that are recorded in the System event log by DFS Namespaces. It also monitors the overall health of DFS Namespaces and alerts you to critical issues.
Download:
DFS Namespaces Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007
The Application Compatibility Toolkit Connector (ACT Connector) assists administrators with collecting the necessary computer and application compatibility information to help plan for a Windows deployment.act and vista
With this connector update, Administrators will be able to utilize valuable Application Compatibility information right from within the Configuration Manager console.
Download:
Application Compatibility Toolkit Connector Update
Now available for download, the Operations Management Pack for Windows Server 2008 R2 Direct Access Server supports a rich set of Alarms, Monitors and Agent Tasks that can be used to successfully and efficiently manage a Direct Access server.
Download:
Operations Management Pack for Windows 2008 R2 Direct Access Server
This article describes how to move the Site Database in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from a computer that is running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to another drive on the same computer, or to another computer that is running SQL Server 2005.(
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Backup is one task in IT that no one looks forward to, so if you've been looking for a comprehensive, low maintenance solution, Data Protection Manager (DPM) from Microsoft might just be the ticket.
DPM is specifically designed to protect Microsoft workloads: Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, AD and Hyper-V. It also follows the paradigm shift for data protection sweeping through the IT industry: rely on hard disks for backup and recovery; only use tape for long-term archiving.(
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Experts Live, is een gratis kennis evenement rondom Microsoft Infra & Security, Unified Communication, Virtualisatie en Management met System Center. Er zijn 17 sessies gepresenteerd door vakspecialisten waaronder velen met een Microsoft MVP status.
