January 03 2012 6:44 AM

Configuration Manager 2012 Training from MS is on the way in Q2 2012

Microsoft has announced two new Configuration Manager 2012 courses due out in April, comprising 8 days of training overall. Course details below. They have release dates of April 26th and May 10th. On a positive note, they cover deployment and configurat...

December 29 2011 7:26 PM

First Look: System Center integration and centralized administration in DPM 2012 Beta

I have not always been a fan of DPM. The first two releases I quickly ignored after a brief look. DPM 2010 I interacted with more via the PowerShell interface in implementing various site-to-site scenarios in conjunction with other enterprise backup solu...

December 22 2011 9:03 PM

[Series] System Center 2012 and the Private Cloud in the real world

With the proliferation of cloud (public, private, hybrid, thunder, etc.) in the last 24 months, software companies have been scrambling for position like squirrels fighting for the last acorn on earth. With System Center 2012, Microsoft has incredible ma...

December 22 2011 8:36 PM

Gotcha when changing the VMM 2012 service account

Here’s an interesting issue we encountered in VMM 2012 RC awhile back after changing the VMM management service account and I wanted to share it for anyone else that might encounter the same issue. I’ll start with the fix and then provide some background...

December 19 2011 10:46 PM

Orchestrator 2012: My installation failed. What log files do I read and where can I find them?

With a customer calling recently reporting failure of an Orchestrator 2012 component, I wanted to share a bit of important troubleshooting information – where detailed logging of Orchestrator 2012 installation process can be found. Log Location Logs are...

December 19 2011 6:59 AM

Hyper-V, Cloud and Windows 8 sessions from Build can be good for the IT Pro

The Build conference is a developer-centric affair, but it’s not without value to the IT Pro. I like listening to these sessions for one simple reason…they give me a look from another perspective and spark ideas for extending solutions for my customers i...

December 18 2011 11:24 AM

OpsMgr: KBs for week ending Dec 17, 2011 (and related resources)

A few KB articles were released for OpsMgr 2007 R2 this week. Links below along with some related resources SCOM R2 Console may crash while setting the scale on a performance view SCOM R2 Linux Agent fails to deploy: ‘The certificate Common Name (CN) doe...

December 16 2011 7:47 AM

New ConfigMgr DCM packs available and thoughts on ConfigMgr vNext

Desired Configuration Management (dubbed Compliance and Settings Management in the latest incarnation) is maybe the most often ignored feature of ConfigMgr 2007 and ConfigMgr 2012 extends the desired configuration management feature to remediate systems...

December 15 2011 8:37 PM

Inside Central Podcast Episode Links (episodes 1-14)

Hosted by Dan Kregor and myself, the Inside Central Podcast focuses on System Center topics of interest here on System Center Central and the System Center community at large. In the first 14 episodes, we’ve covered a wide variety of technical topics fro...

December 13 2011 7:47 AM

MP Authoring: How can I monitor FTP site availability in OpsMgr 2012?

This question was asked by a customer recently: How can I monitor FTP site availbility in OpsMgr 2012? Well, the good news is that investments in OpsMgr 2007 monitoring scripts can generally be carried forward to OpsMgr 2012 (see OpsMgr 2012: Will my Ops...