As part of the configuration for the SharePoint 2010 management pack, there is a SharePointMP.config file which needs to be edited to include the various SharePoint servers in the environment including the databases used by SharePoint. In an environment where there may be a significant number of these and you do not have an existing…
I had a client who is running OpsMgr 2012 and hasn’t applied an update rollup yet and they were asking if it makes sense to apply UR2 or to wait until SP1 is available. Relevant links: UR2 Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30421 KB link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2706783 System Center 2012 SP1 – beta was just released on 9/10/12: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34607 The…
I received from feedback from a colleague of mine at Catapult (Paul Johnson) about an issue he has identified when UR2 is installed. The summary is that in UR2 all management servers must be members of the All Management Servers Resource pool even though it is documented to remove management servers which are dedicated to…
During some recent testing of Operations Manager 2012, we needed to add the backwards compatibility management pack as it was required for several of the management packs including: Microsoft.CommerceServer.2007 (Converted) Microsoft.Windows.Server.GroupPolicy.2003 (Converted) Microsoft.Windows.Server.InternetNamingService (Converted) Microsoft.Windows.Server.RRAS (Converted) We had already also been monitoring Service Manager 2012 which requires agentless monitoring as discussed at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagerdeployment/thread/48396343-70b9-42c6-9d84-79955365ed93/…
During integration testing with OpsMgr 2012, ServiceMgr 2012 and Savision Live Maps 2012 we ran across an issue we needed to work around. The problem was with using the Open Live Map task shown below. This occurred on a 32 bit Windows 7 computer. There is currently not a version of the Service Manager Integration…
Resource Pools were added in Operations Manager 2012. As a quick definition for what they are: “A resource pool is a collection of management servers used to distribute work amongst themselves and take over work from a failed member.” – subset from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh230706.aspx. I would update that slightly to the following definition based upon this…
A little while back I wrote up a blog post on how Microsoft paint can be used to identify the RGB values for a color and then those can be added into Visio (http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/94754/Default.aspx). You can use the eyedropper (highlighted below) to sample the color and add it as a custom color. Savision Live Maps…
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A colleague of mine pointed this out to me and I have to say, this is a really useful tool to have especially when juggling a QA and Production versions of both OpsMgr and ServiceMgr. This is also useful when comparing an OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment an OpsMgr 2012 environment during multi-homed migrations. This took…
I started this blog post from a System Center MVP perspective, but with internal conversations with our SQL MVP I realized that this would be far more interesting as a point/counter-point discussion between several of our Catapult MVP’s based upon our different SME experiences. This isn’t a cut and dry – this is the answer…
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