October, 2012

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where installing or upgrading Reporting in System Center 2012 Operations Manager fails with error 0xffffffff. ===== Symptoms When installing or upgrading to System Center...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where reports do not populate in the OpsMgr 2012 Reporting Pane, or Report data does not update. ===== Symptoms Reports do not populate in the System Center 2012 Operations...

Update Rollup 3 was recently released and is a little different than previous updates because we distributed the updates through Microsoft Update.  Stefan Stranger, a Senior Premier Field Engineer (PFE) at Microsoft, has written up a thorough blog...

I was working on a customer’s System Center 2012 Operations Manager, which was failing to register their application, even when they were using the steps provided in KB2699998 . Symptoms Using the steps  referenced in KB2699998 , the PowerShell hangs...

Overview ​The System Center Management Pack for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) monitors events that the AD FS 2.0 Windows service records in the AD FS 2.0 event logs, and it monitors the performance data that the AD FS 2.0 performance counters...

Overview This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate and take corrective action, if necessary. The management pack helps to simplify the administrative environment...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where Javascripts used by Operations Manager Management Packs fail to execute with CScript Error: Can't find script engine . ===== Symptoms Javascripts used by System Center...

Download the System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Windows Server File & iSCSI Services 2012 Here Overview System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Windows Server File & iSCSI Services 2012. This version of Monitoring Pack for...

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta - Installable Bits (if you want to do that instead of VMs) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34607 App Controller – Service Pack 1 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download...

If you have tried editing knowledge in OpsMgr 2012 with Office 2010 you are likely to have run into this error “Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word” or as shown in the image below. Working with our support...

We are pleased to announce that System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3 (UR3) has been released.  Keeping with our currently schedule of releasing update rollups quarterly, Update Rollup 3 provides updates for issues that have been reported to Microsoft...

We're happy to announce that MMS will return to Las Vegas, NV, April 8-12, 2013! In order to be one of the first to know about the opening of MMS 2013 registration, send mail to mmsnotfy@microsoft.com to subscribe to MMS News & Updates. http...

The System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Power Management enables you to monitor and manage the power consumption of computers running Windows Server 2012. This Management Pack provides: Visibility into power consumption Visibility and control of power...

We released some new management packs (MPs) last week for Operations Manager to monitor Windows Server 2012. REMINDER: Windows Server 2012 can only be monitored by an Operations Manager 2012 or 2012 SP1 agent please refer to this blog post for more information...