System Center Essentials Team Blog

News and support on Microsoft SCE

SCE 2010:
The System Center Essentials Team Blog

Unified physical and virtual IT management for midsized businesses

April, 2008

Find this helpful?
Tags
Archive
Archives
Latest Tweets
Related Stuff
Blogs
TechNet Blogs > System Center Essentials Team Blog > April, 2008
Sort by: Most Recent | Most Views | Most Comments
Excerpt View | Full Post View
  • System Center Essentials Team Blog

    Determining which packages are "Needed" across your managed environment

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by
    • 1 Comments

    Over the past six months, many within the System Center Essentials community provided feedback on the inability of SCE to show which updates and software are needed by managed systems.  Workarounds exist today for Microsoft Update content, but when it comes to locally-published content, or driver content obtained from a partner catalog the question remains unanswered. 

    It is possible to call into the WSUS 3.0 APIs and obtain this information through the use of Powershell scripting using the steps below.

     

    1. Install PowerShell on your SCE server, or workstation running the SCE remote management console. 
    2. Copy the attached script, and save it as 'NeededContent.ps1'
    3. Launch the powershell console window 
    4. Sign the file, or set script execution to 'unrestricted' by running the following command:  Set-ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted  !! Note - It is important to understand the possible risks of running unsigned scripts.  More details at:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc137728.aspx 
    5. Call the file from the powershell console window.  If it was located at d:\myscripts\ , the command would read:  PS > D:\myscripts\NeededContent.ps1

    Additional notes -

    • You will need to execute the script in the context of a WSUS administrator, or WSUS reporter role. 
    • The script allows for the display of Microsoft Update content as well, but it will take considerably longer to execute due to the large volume of updates. 
    • The script will filter out packages which are declined.

    Hope this helps! 
    /Ty

     

  • System Center Essentials Team Blog

    System Center Essentials team at MMS 2008!

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by
    • 0 Comments

    If you're attending the Microsoft Management Summit this week in Las Vegas, be sure to stop by the Essentials booth on expo floor, or catch us at one of the many sessions we are hosting this week.

     

    SU32 Ask the Experts Panel
    Wednesday, April 30 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Titian 2201B 
    Speaker(s): Rod Trent
    Track(s): Community
    Session Type(s): Breakout
    Products(s): Community, Configuration Manager 2007, Data Protection Manager, Essentials, Operations Manager 2007, Service Manager, SoftGrid / Application Virtualization, Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Client, Windows Server

    This session continues to be one of the most popular at MMS each year, where you can ask a panel of industry experts your burning systems management questions. As in previous year’s, any and all questions are acceptable, as you try to stump the carefully crafted expert panel. Get help with your biggest technical issues back home or find out more about upcoming product releases. Rod Trent, owner of myITforum.com, the largest internet systems management community, will moderate the session.

    SY17 Microsoft System Center Remote Operations Manager 2007: Deployment and Configuration
    Wednesday, April 30 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Murano 3201A 
    Speaker(s): Dustin Jones, John Joyner
    Track(s): Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Breakout
    Products(s): Essentials, Remote Operations Manager

    Learn how Microsoft partners can move from a break-fix to an annuity-based IT support business! Remote Operations Manager 2007 is a new platform which Microsoft partners can use in conjunction with System Center Essentials 2007 to provide proactive remote IT management for their small and midsize business customers. This session will also cover in detail the process of deploying and configuring this solution as well as using it to provide great deep remote IT management for Microsoft products.

    SY18 Architectural Overview of System Center Essentials 2007
    Tuesday, April 29 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Murano 3201A 
    Speaker(s): David Mills
    Track(s): Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Breakout
    Products(s): Essentials, Security, WSUS

    Essentials 2007 is a new unified management solution designed for midsize businesses with 50-500 PCs. Get an overview of Essentials 2007 and understand how it enables IT professionals in midsize organizations to proactively manage their IT environment with increased efficiency. Essentials 2007 helps you keep your systems up-to-date with tools that accelerate problem resolution and enable automation of system updates and data collection.

    SY19 Supporting Your End-Users with Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007
    Tuesday, April 29 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM, Murano 3201A 
    Speaker(s): Dustin Jones, David Mills
    Track(s): Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Breakout
    Products(s): Essentials

    In this session, you will learn how you can use System Center Essentials 2007 to more effectively support your end-users in a mid-size business (50-500 PCs)by deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting mission-critical applications, services and operating systems in your IT environment. We will walk through deployment of Office 2007 and demonstrate how to use Essentials 2007 to effectively manage business critical applications. We will then demonstrate Essentials 2007 desktop management capabilities which support the Windows Vista operating system.

    SY20 System Center Essentials 2007: What's New in SP1?
    Thursday, May 1 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM, Murano 3201A 
    Speaker(s): Campbell Gunn, Dustin Jones
    Track(s): Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Breakout
    Products(s): Essentials

    Essentials 2007 is a new unified management solution designed for midsize businesses with 50-500 PCs. In this session you will get an overview of updates being delivered in SP1 to improve the installation and configuration process and provide compatibility with Windows Server 2008. We will also describe and demonstrate new features such as configuring workgroup-joined computers for management and managing Windows Server 2008.

    YY20 Introduction to System Center Essentials 2007
    Track(s): Systems Management
    Session Type(s): Hands-On Lab
    Products(s): Essentials, Windows Client, Windows Server

    In this lab you will walk through the installation, configuration and use of System Center Essentials 2007. System Center Essentials is a systems management product designed for medium sized businesses and this lab will demonstrate some of the key capabilities of Essentials 2007 including managing computers, software and hardware inventory, software deployment, update management and monitoring
     

     

     http://www.mms-2008.com

  • System Center Essentials Team Blog

    "Performance Module could not find a performance counter" temporary workaround

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by
    • 2 Comments

    If you are receiving alerts “Performance Module could not find a performance counter” in the Essentials Console, please perform thefollowing steps to disable the rule via override.

    1.       Navigate to the Authoring Space in the Console.

    2.       Select “Rules” under “Management Pack Objects”.

    3.       Type “Performance Data Source Module” in the “Look for:” box and click “Find Now”.  Be sure a Scope is not set or filtering the “Health Service” Target.

    4.       Find the rule, “Performance Data Source Module could not find a performance counter” under “Type: Health Service (2)”, right-click, select “Overrides”, “Disable the Rule”, “For all objects of type:  Health Service”.

    5.       When prompted, “Are you sure you want to disable this rule for Health Service?” click “Yes”.

    Microsoft is working on the long-term solution to address this problem.

    Thanks, Dustin Jones

Page 1 of 1 (3 items)