System Center 2012 Operations Manager IPD guide
Microsoft has released the The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for SCOM 2012. To download it go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/jj593271.aspx
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System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook Published
I am happy to announce the Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook has been published. I had the opportunity to be a technical reviewer on this book. It will be a good resource for any Service manager admins out there. Here is the cover and the link to purchase it: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-System-Service-Manager-Cookbook/dp/1849686947
Backing up Linux with DPM
Here is an excellent post on backing up Linux with DPM without using an expensive third party option. http://justin-bennett-msjc.blogspot.com/2012/05/backup-linux-using-microsoft-dpm-2010.html There is some work involved to get it working but is a good alternative.
What version of SCSM do I have installed?
I recently ran across a forum post with a user asking how to find out who Service Manager was registered to and what version of service manager was installed. To do this open up the Service manager console and click on help. This will give you a build version number as seen in the … Read more
System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3 (UR3) Released
System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3 (UR3) Released is available. There are updates to SCOM, SCSM, and SCDPM. There are allot of updates for SCDPM that fix issues with protecting SharePoint. So if you are protecting SharePoint you will want to apply this rollup soon. Here are the issues it fixes: Update Rollup 3 for … Read more
Simulate low disk space to trigger SCOM alert
Here is another tool that can be used to help you tune or demo SCOM. This tool is called Philip and is a disk space filler. This tool can be used to fill up space on a hard drive so an alert can be triggered on SCOM. The speed at which this tool generates the … Read more
Network device emulation in the cloud
There has been discussion lately around running SCOM 2012 and other SC products in the cloud for DEMO and POC purposes. One problem with running SCOM in a cloud solution is not having access to network device/s. There is a solution to this. You can run a network device emulator. This is available as software … Read more
DPM 2012 Book update
We are in the final rounds of writing the DPM 2012 book. We also have had another Microsoft MVP join the team of authors! Flemming Riis has joined us and we are excited to have him on the team. His blog can be found here: http://flemmingriis.com He will bring great content to the book. … Read more
Orchestrator Runbook Examples
Are you learning System Center Orchestrator 2012? If yes, you can download some example runbooks to help you practice on Orchestrator. These can be downloaded from codeplex here: http://orchestrator.codeplex.com/releases/view/86195 There are 43 total runbooks most are for each of the products in the System Center 2012 stack but there are a few for general administrative … Read more
System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta
System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta was announced today. There are some exciting updates to System Center 2012. Here are some of the enhancements I have been waiting for: Data Protection Manager Improved backup performance of Hyper-V over CSV 2.0 Protection for Hyper-V over remote SMB share Protection for Windows Server 2012 de-duplicated … Read more