March–Technical Rollup Mail–Manageability

News

System Center 2012 RC Released & New Licensing Information

http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/01/17/system-center-2012-rc-released-amp-new-licensing-information.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/default.aspx

New Product Family and Product Category for System Center in WSUS Server

We will add a new product family to your WSUS server today – System Center. The System Center product family will contain updates for versions 2012 and higher of System Center products, which include System Center 2012, a product that combines components such as:

· Operations Manager

· Configuration Manager

· Data Protection Manager

· Service Manager

· Virtual Machine Manager

· Endpoint Protection

· Orchestrator

· App Controller

http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/02/14/new-product-family-and-product-category-for-system-center-in-wsus-server.aspx

System Center Universe

In case you missed it

http://systemcenteruniverse.com/

Premier

OpsVault — Operate and Optimize IT

http://www.opsvault.com

Microsoft Premier Support UK - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspremuk/

General

Steve Rachui's Manageability blog - ConfigMgr/OpsMgr - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/

System Center WebLog by Russ Slaten - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rslaten/

The Manageability Guys - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/manageabilityguys/

Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/

Andrew Fryer - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/andrew/

Configuration Manager & SMS

The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/

The Deployment Guys - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys

System Center Configuration Manager Solutions - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mwiles/

Carlos Santiago's Manageability Blog - Configuration Manager - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/carlossantiago/

Michael Niehaus' Windows and Office deployment ramblings - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/

Paul Thomsen at myITforum.com

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/pthomsen/default.aspx

Jeff Gilbert's Web blog at myITforum.com

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/default.aspx

Operations Manager & MOM

The System Center Operations Manager Support Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/operationsmgr/

Kevin Holman's System Center Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonathanalmquist/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonathanalmquist/

Jimmy Harper's Operations Manager Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/jimmyharper/

Emre's OpsMgr Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/emreguclu/

MPAuthor - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mpauthor/

Other

System Center: Virtual Machine Manager Engineering Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/

The Microsoft Application Virtualization Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/

The Out Of Band Management Support Team blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

http://blogs.technet.com/b/oob/

Tweets

Operations Manager & MOM

@OpsMgr

Tweets from the Ops manager team

@MPReleases

Notification of new Management Pack Releases as they happen.

@MS_SystemCenter

We are the System Center Support team. We support App-V, ConfigMgr, DPM, MED-V, Opalis, OpsMgr, Server App-V, Service Manager, SCE, SCVMM, WSUS and more.

@system_center

The folks at Microsoft who work on the System Center family of products and solutions.

Downloads

Monitoring Pack for SQL Azure – CTP

The SQL Azure Monitoring Management Pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of applications that are running on SQL Azure.
Feature Summary:
After configuration, the SQL Azure Monitoring Management Pack offers the following functionalities:
- Wizard to discover SQL Azure servers and databases
- Provides connectivity status of SQL azure server.
- Collects and monitor health of SQL azure databases
- Collects and monitors performance information.
- Highly optimized PowerShell based infrastructure to efficiently monitors SQL Azure.
- Ability to define Custom thresholds for each monitor to configure the warning and critical alerts.
- Run-as profile to securely connect to SQL azure
- Detailed knowledge to guide the IT operator with troubleshooting the problem
- Custom tasks to redirect the user to the SQL azure online portal

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/monitoring-pack-for-sql-azure-ctp-12884935376

System Center Monitoring Pack for SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel data Warehouse Appliances

This Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Appliance provides capabilities to discover, monitor, and manage your SQL Server PDW appliances. The management pack simplifies the monitoring process for PDW.

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/system-center-monitoring-pack-for-microsoft-sql-server-2008-r2-parallel-data-warehouse-appliance-12884926406

System Center Orchestrator 2012 Release Candidate Integration Packs

The System Center Orchestrator 2012 Release Candidate Integration Packs provides the capability to interface and control other existing System Center products through custom activities which are used to create runbooks.
- System Center products supported:
- System Center 2007 Operations Manager
- System Center 2010 Service Manager
- System Center 2008 Virtual Machine Manager
- System Center 2010 Data Protection Manager
- System Center 2007 Configuration Manager

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/system-center-orchestrator-2012-release-candidate-integration-packs-12884928230

Events/Webcasts

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42364#42364

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42363

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42365

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42555

Microsoft System Center Overview On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42366

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032454027&culture=en-US

New KB's

Configuration Manager & SMS

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 5: "Stop error code 0x0000001E" occurs during startup Of Systems Management Server clients after upgrade

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329764/en-US

Operations Manager & MOM

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Removing orphaned Operations Management agents using PowerShell

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2626752/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: System Center Operations Manager 2007 is unable to monitor SQL Server replication status

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2673200/en-US

Other

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010: A hotfix that enables interoperability with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 RC is available for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2615782/en-US