Marnix Wolf’s blog series on System Center 2012 Licensing (#SYSCTR)

Marnix Wolf provided an excellent perspective on licensing in System Center 2012 in a series of blog posts – check out the parts below! Part 1: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.nl/2012/06/sc-2012-licensing-lets-complify-part-i.html  Part 2: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.nl/2012/06/sc-2012-licensing-lets-complify-part-ii.html Part 3: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2012/06/sc-2012-licensing-lets-complify-part.html Part 4: Not posted yet but hopefully soon at: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/ Keep up the great blogging Marnix!

Creating a map with server locations in OpsMgr 2012 (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

There are two new dashboards which use the new SCOMLocation information to provide information for Web Application Availability Monitoring. Summary Dashboard – Map: This dashboard (and the Detailed Dashboard – List) are available when Web Application Availability Monitoring synthetic transactions have been created in the authoring pane. These dashboards are available in the Monitoring pane…

Does-It-Work-In-OM12? Green Machine (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

Topic: Green Machine and Green Machine management pack Download location: Green Machine and Green Machine Management Pack Issues: None identified Notes: I’ve tested it and it works find in Operations Manager 2012. This may be able to be replaced with PowerShell scripts as discussed at: http://www.blogmynog.com/2010/12/08/resetting-logical-disk-fragementation-monitor-via-powershell/  and an updated version of the scripts for OpsMgr…

Minor issue with the SC2012_OpsMgr_Deployment document (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

Paul Johnson tracked down an issue with the current Operations Manager documentation which needed a minor update. Microsoft has been made aware of the recommended alteration below, but I am blogging it in case others run across this reference and are looking for clarification. The document referenced below is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29256  Original text: Although…