In the previous blog posts we used an existing MSDN subscription to activate an Azure subscription, created and deployed a sample Azure application, and added the Azure management pack to Operations Manager 2012. That should be sufficient to provide monitoring for the application but hey – what’s the fun in stopping there! We need some…
Now that I had a functional application in Azure, my next step was to get the Azure management pack added into Operations Manager 2012 and start monitoring my sample application. Please note that for this test I had an existing functional Operations Manger 2012 environment. The steps below were what was required to get my…
This is the first part of a several part series discussing steps to integrate Azure into System Center 2012. The focus of this post is how to take an existing Azure subscription and upload a simple website which can be monitored by Operations Manager. There were a couple of different approaches to take on this.…
In my lab environment I am running Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V systems and managing them with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 Beta. I had been having issues with loss of connectivity to the Hyper-V hosts and my VMM service. I found that the SCVMMAgent and vmms services were failing occasionally and then communication…
This isn’t my normal OpsMgr type blog post so for my OpsMgr colleagues out there feel free to skip past this one unless you are interested in the topic. Today’s post discusses the lessons that I learned as an IT geek attempting to upgrade my home television service by replacing the in-house antenna I…
The following are the steps and links associated with building an all-in-one OpsMgr 2012 environment. This blog post specifically was written using Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2012 environment. Please note that running Operations Manager 2012 (RTM) running on Windows Server 2012 is NOT a supported configuration. Why am I trying this when I know…
I recently blogged on the process to install a new domain controller in Windows 2012 (available here). As part of addition of a few of my new Windows 2012 domain controllers I accidentally installed a domain controller as datacenter edition of Windows Server 2012 instead of standard edition. To address this situation I decided to…
There are multiple situations where it will be required to change the “All Management Servers Resource Pool” membership from automatic to manual. From part 1 of this series see: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/07/24/automatic-and-manual-resource-pools-in-operations-manager-2012-scom-sysctr.aspx What situations require these types of changes to the resource pools? 1) Network Monitoring Management Servers should be removed from the default pools per Microsoft…
Recently I spent some time installing my first 2012 DC into an existing Active Directory environment. I installed the server, logged in and ran dcpromo. And pretty quickly I felt the sinking feeling that “this is no longer your father’s domain controller installation”. So, how do we install a domain controller on Windows Server 2012?…
Well, at least it looks like System Center 2012 UR3 is available for Operations Manager 2012, Data Protection Manager 2012 and Service Manager 2012. Operations Manager 2012: One of my colleagues pointed out that he was seeing what appears to be UR3 for System Center 2012 both on an OpsMgr 2012 server and on a…
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