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Catapult, a Quisitive company, is a Microsoft-focused solutions and services firm that specializes in imagining, building and sustaining digital transformation and cloud-based solutions that people love to use. Catapult has consistently been recognized as a leading Microsoft Partner with 10 Advanced Specializations and 17 Microsoft competencies. Recent accolades include 2020 MSUS Partner Award Winner Azure – DevOps, Top Microsoft 365 Security Partner for FY20, and being named a finalist of the Data Analytics 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. Catapult has offices nationwide.

Tips and Tricks: OpsMgr 2012 – ASP.NET 4.0 or 4x Handler is not registered with IIS

CloudBy Catapult Systems September 26, 2012

I recently came across an installation issue where the prerequisites would fail on the ASP.NET 4.0 Registration Check. TechNet has always suggested the following: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj656649.aspx "Important You must install IIS before installing .NET Framework 4. If you installed IIS after installing .NET Framework 4, you must register ASP.NET 4.0 with IIS. Open a Command…

New Release: System Center 2012 (OpsMgr) Monitoring Pack for SharePoint 2010

CloudBy Catapult Systems September 26, 2012

There was a new release of the SharePoint 2010 Management Pack (now called Monitoring Pack) for use with OpsMgr 2012. This includes new documentation as well as the necessary Task to run in OpsMgr 2012. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34697

ConfigMgr 2012 Installation: Incorrect SQL permissions for ConfigMgr Computer Account

CloudBy Catapult Systems September 26, 2012

During a ConfigMgr Installation, it was found that the Computer Account did not have the correct permissions to the SQL instance. In order to add the Computer Object, use the query below (run against master). You will then need to add the correct User Mapping within the SQL Security of the Account to have proper…

KB Article: OpsMgr SDK Service Fails to Start – CRL checking for the Data Access Service

CloudBy Catapult Systems September 26, 2012

After applying KB2677070, the System Center Data Access Service may have a problem starting due to a Timeout error. Apparently there were updates to the URLs used to set up a connection to Windows Update in order to download the trusted and untrusted CTLs. You may see an issue if the previous URLs were hardcoded…

Tips and Tricks: OpsMgr Upgrade – Lessons Learned to help the upgrade process

CloudBy Catapult Systems September 26, 2012

Here’s a few quick points I wanted to make regarding Lessons Learned from upgrading OpsMgr 2007 R2 to OpsMgr 2012. These points will help streamline the upgrade process and help you to upgrde OpsMgr in an efficient manner. Lessons learned outline: · Use ‘Run As Administrator’ on Setup.exe to initiate upgrade sequence o I noticed…

OpsMgr Run As: SQL High and Low Privilege Security Discovery\Monitoring Account

CloudBy Catapult Systems September 26, 2012

Recently I had a few questions regarding what it means to have a SQL Run As account and what High and Low Privilege security means to me. So, In short, this is what SQL Security means to me in regards to SQL MP Discoveries\Monitoring\Tasks… Here’s a link to the documentation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd767429.aspx For High Privilege…

OpsMgr Run As: SQL High and Low Privilege Security Discovery\Monitoring Account

CloudBy Catapult Systems September 26, 2012

Tips and Tricks: OpsMgr 2012 upgrade failure – SDK Service will not start

CloudBy Catapult Systems September 26, 2012

I noticed that after a complete failure of an upgrade from OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU6 to OpsMgr 2012, the SDK Service would not start. Here’s what I did to fix it, in its entirety. The Steps are below the screenshots. NOTE: You might be able to begin at step 3 if the SDK assembly files…

Clifs Notes: Lync 2010 Monitoring with OpsMgr and Lync

CloudBy Catapult Systems September 26, 2012

Lync Monitoring Server Summary (Clifs Notes) The purpose of this post is to help identify the requirements to monitor your Lync Implementation holistically. Real-Time montioring happens within the (optional) OpsMgr Managment Pack, and detailed reporting happens within the Lync Monitoring Server and the Reports deployed along with the Lync Monitoring Server Role. In order to…

Excel Tips & Trivia: Open Separate Windows vs. Arrange All

GeneralBy Catapult Systems September 26, 2012

This week’s trivia… Up through Excel 2003, there were 16.8 million cells in a single spreadsheet. With the release of Excel 2007, that number was increased to 17.2 billion! This week’s tip(s)… Open Separate Windows in Excel If you’re working on 2 monitors and want to have 2 separate windows of Excel open, rather than…

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