Recently during an OpsMgr 2007 R2 to OpsMgr 2012 engagement we needed to migrate all subscriptions, subscribers and channels from the existing OpsMgr 2007 R2 production environment to the newly built OpsMgr 2012 QA and Production environments. The following is the process that we used which worked extremely well (though I’m not sure if it’s…
With the latest update to WSUS (described in KB2720211) also came an update to the WUA, version 7.6.7600.256; however, this updated WUA is not available for separate download and can only be installed directly via WSUS as described in KB949104. This is somewhat disconcerting for a handful of reasons including the following: There is no…
To deploy the OpsMgr 2012 console, there are three items that need to be deployed. The first is .NET 4.0, the second is Report Viewer, and the third is the OpsMgr 2012 console itself. Configure both the .NET 4.0 and Report Viewer to be dependencies for the Operations Manager console. .NET example installation syntax:…
I was recently working in an OpsMgr 2012 environment where there were problems adding a Performance widget because no counters were appearing for a custom group which had been created. To test this we performed the following two tests: 1) Created a group with two static members. We attempted to create add a Performance widget…
Today Microsoft and the http://community.office365.com site hosted an Office 365 Expert Discussion Series: Troubleshooting Issues with Sending and Receiving Email in Office 365. This was a great session that discussed the Do It Yourself (DIY) troubleshooting tool for Office 365, and other resources available to assist Office 365/Exchange Online administrators with identifying and correcting any…
Environments which have SharePoint available gain several benefits from using SharePoint together with Operations Manager. The following is my Top-5 list of these benefits. Benefit #5: Using SharePoint as a process repository SharePoint document libraries provide an excellent way to store documents within document libraries which can easily be searched using the built-in SharePoint functionality.…
A little while back I was asked a question that I wanted to spend some time on answering with more than a quick reply. The question is below: “Why do you suggest that a parallel SCOM implementation always be set up to monitor a Quality Assurance/Development environment? My manager is trying to lighten our footprint,…
On August 28th at 8:00pm GMT/UTC we will be holding the Office 365 International User Group Meeting. Below is a link to download the calendar invite for the meeting with the Lync Meeting information for joining. The Agenda for the August meeting is: 8:00pm Welcome, open discussion 8:15pm To the Cloud with SharePoint Overview 9:00pm Filtering for…
The following blog post is a series of Q&A items related to System Center Orchestrator 2012. Thanks to Marty List, Paul Johnson and Albert Uy for their expertise, insights and assistance putting this together! Question: How can I tell what Integration Packs are current for Orchestrator. Answer: At this point it appears that the…
The following was done as part of a project to validate that network devices monitored by OpsMgr 2007 R2 using the xSNMP management pack still work when the environment is upgraded to OpsMgr 2012. To test this situation, I installed an all-in-one OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment (similar to what was done in this blog article),…
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