The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (“SP1”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. The Beta is for evaluation purposes only and not to be used in production...

There have been various questions on how and when Operations Manager will provide monitoring support for Windows Server 2012 so I wanted to clarify things in this blog. Supported Configurations: The supported configurations for Operations Manager...

Are you looking for a good way to get started learning everything that’s new in OpsMgr 2012? If so then here’s the guide for you: ===== Operations Manager got its start under the name Microsoft Operations Manager or MOM, after which it evolved to be known...

So... I was talking to my friend/colleague Eric in MSIT (Microsoft IT), who is one of our internal System Center power users, as you can imagine. MSIT manages thousands of line of business applications. As APM gets rolled out to web farms, or new servers...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team is working on a new guide: System Center 2012 – Operations Manager. Join the beta now. Join the System Center 2012 – Operations Manager Beta. This guide outlines the infrastructure design elements that are crucial...

The information below applies to the monitoring of HP-UX PA-RISC computers with: Operations Manager 2007 R2 System Center 2012 – Operations Manager Background Operations Manager uses the WS-Management protocol over SSL/TLS to communicate with UNIX and...

The UNIX and Linux Operating Systems Monitoring Packs enable discovering, monitoring, and managing UNIX and Linux computers with System Center 2012 – Operations Manager. They provide both proactive and reactive monitoring of the UNIX and Linux operating...

Greetings, Hi, Carmen Summers here from the Cloud and Data Center Management System Center team. Yesterday System Center released Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 posted on all System Center Blogs. This is the second Update Rollup System Center...

This rollup includes updates for App Controller, Data Protection Manager (DPM), Operations Manager (OpsMgr), Orchestrator, Service Manager (SCSM) and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). Download links, installation instructions and the list of issues fixed...

App Controller – Evaluation VHD http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4da3d1d9-91d4-472e-acb7-10885df9d1c2 Operations Manager – Evaluation VHD http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00b78007-638f...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where the System Center Data Access Service may fail to start with a Timeout error after applying the hotfix in 2677070. ===== Summary After applying KB2677070 , the System...

Check out the System Center 2012 Guided Hands On Labs!  They are a set of 14 labs that cover how to use System Center to deliver IT as a Service using a Private Cloud.  The demos span across the three pillars of System Center – Application Management...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where an Operations Manager AD Replication Monitor generates an "Invalid Script Parameter Configuration" error message. ===== Symptoms System Center Operations Manager...

Dear Users, With the CTP2 release of System Center 2012, we announced the immediate availability of the Customer Preview of a new System Center component called “Global Service Monitor”. Global Service Monitor is an Azure-based service...

The following is a self-study guide put together by a Technical Account Manager here at Microsoft named Scott Rachui. He was gracious enough to let me post the contents here so if you’re looking for a crash course on System Center Advisor and App Controller...

You can find the MP here . From the Management Pack Guide Document Version This guide was written based on the 6.0.6972.0 version of the Monitoring Pack for Windows Server Operating System. Changes in This Update Unless explicitly...

I have been talking to a number of people, both online as well as in person (at MMS, TechED and in other occasions) and one of the recurring questions I get, as people plan for their deployment of System Center 2012 – Operations Manager and want to use...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where installing a System Center 2012 Operations Manager fails if there is not enough free disk space for the Data file folder or the Log file folder. ===== Symptoms Installing...

As Vijay announced we are excited about the CTP2 release of the System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 that is now ready to download! System Center 2012 SP1 integrates with and leverages the exciting new features in the Windows Server 2012 RC while continuing...

As I write this post flying back from TechEd, North America ( check out Day 1 keynote ), it never ceases to amaze me how technology has really changed our lives!!! Speaking of which, what an honor that all of you voted System Center 2012 as best Microsoft...

In OpsMgr 2012, we provided users the ability to create customized dashboards using the OpsMgr 2012 console. The GTM.exe tool provided in this blog allows you to build off these dashboard investments, in particular we allow you to accomplish three specific...

Whoa!  What’s with the new style?!  The System Center engineering team blogs are now part of the Server & Tools blog network which is a select few top tier blogs from the Server and Tools division.  This network is part of a larger...

I’ve put together a new TechNet Wiki page that is a “one stop shopping” index of the following things: · Forums · Galleries · Libraries (aka “docs”) · Survival Guides · Wikis · Engineering Team Blogs · Microsoft Employee Blogs · Community Blogs · MVP...

Dear Users, This blog explains how to get the most of Web Application Availability Monitoring in SCOM 2012. This Monitoring allows you to observe the health of web application end points using your watcher nodes. End points which you can monitor could...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where installing a System Center 2012 Operations Manager server fails with error 0x80131604. ===== Symptoms Installing a System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr) Management...