During a recent meeting on System Center 2012, there were several good questions which were asked that I didn’t know the answer to. So to share with the community, here’s the questions asked and their answers from our Catapult team! Question: Does Endpoint Protection provide any client encryption management? Anything to manage Bitlocker? Answer: …
In a previous blog post available at https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/03/01/windows-server-8-beta-amp-operations-manager-2012-rc-[scom].aspx I ran into challenges with monitoring Windows Server 8 with OpsMgr 2012. As a reminder, this is not a supported configuration – this blog post is only to provide insights into how to test this functionality in a lab environment to see integration between Windows Server 8…
I just finalized on planning to moderate two sessions on “New to Microsoft System Center 2012” at MMS 2012. With all of the new features coming to the System Center 2012 stack these should be great discussions! Abstract: “The long-awaited System Center 2012 product release is here! In this Birds-of-a-Feather discussion we will have an…
As Operations Manager moves more into management of heterogeneous environments, it’s become more apparent that this is an area of interest in OpsMgr 2012 for a lot of our clients. In a previous blog post I went through the steps required to integrate Tomcat into OpsMgr monitoring, and to integrate Unix/Linux systems in System Center…
For an upcoming demonstration I was tasked with showing how End-User Recovery works in Data Protection Manager 2012. For most of this process I worked from Robert’s article at: http://robertanddpm.blogspot.com/2011/02/eur.html. The following were the steps that I ended up doing to achieve the same task in DPM 2012: 1) The first step was to…
As a simple starting point to demonstrate some of the new JEE monitoring functionality in Operations Manager a colleague of mine at Microsoft recommended that I start with the simplest pieces and then go to more complicated examples. The first item to test is Tomcat and to simplify the lab experience I installed it…
John Joyner just provided the steps that he used to recover the lab environment which we use for System Center Operations Manager 2012. Details are available at: http://opsmgrunleashed.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/disaster-recovery-in-system-center-2012-operations-manager/
I am not one of those people who is a naturally born public speaker. My friends, who have known me for a while (the decade+ club), would attest to this statement. My earliest memory of public speaking was a debate class in high school. In this particular debate the only point I won was that…
The following notes cover approximately one day of Windows Server 8 Beta presentations which John Savill did recently for Windows IT Pro. Everything in this is as of the BETA version of the product, things may change between now and RTM (not feature complete or feature locked). Installation: · Server Core Installation X64, Server with…
The following are the two topics which were discussed for additional links from a Q&A session on 3/8: Question: “How do we simulate network devices in OpsMgr 2012” Answer: Try using the Jalasoft network device simulator: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2012/02/17/test-demo-opsmgr-2012-network-monitoring-with-jalasoft-s-network-device-simulator.aspx Question: “Where do I go find answer to System Center 2012 licensing?” Answer: System Center licensing FAQ:…
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