The Team Foundation Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010. It monitors TFS components such as application tier server instances, team project collections, build servers, and proxy servers.

The monitoring provided by this management pack includes availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of Team Foundation Server components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios.

• Auto discovery of TFS components
• Implements containment hierarchy, reflecting logical architecture of the Product
• Implements a proper health model using Monitors
• Contains tasks, diagnostic and recovery for certain failures
• Provides events that indicate service outages
• Provides alerts that show configuration issues and connected data source changes
• Verification that all dependent services are running
• Triggers targeted running of BPA against TFS Servers from Operator Console

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The increasing use of virtual machines - for purposes ranging from support of older operating system environments to power savings - has created new challenges for IT.

In particular, virtual machines may be left offline (stored in a non-operating state) for extended periods of time, which conserves resources when the server capacities of the virtual machines are not needed or frees up physical computing resources for other purposes.

However, offline machines, templates, and virtual hard disks do not automatically receive operating system, antivirus, or application updates that would keep them compliant with current IT policy. An out-of-date virtual machine may pose a risk to the IT environment. If deployed and started, the out-of-date virtual machine might be vulnerable to attack or could be capable of attacking other network resources.

Therefore, IT groups must take measures to ensure that offline virtual machines, templates, and virtual hard disks remain up-to-date and compliant. At present, these measures involve temporarily bringing the virtual machine online, applying the necessary updates, and then storing it again.

VMST 3.0 helps you reduce IT costs by making it easier to update your offline virtual machines, templates and virtual hard disks with the latest operating -system and application patches—without introducing vulnerabilities into your IT infrastructure.

VMST 3.0 helps customers more effectively—and safely—manage the workflow of updating their offline virtualization environment. Using VMST 3.0, customers can now service:

· Offline virtual machines in a SCVMM library. · Stopped and saved state virtual machines on a host. · Virtual machine templates. · Offline virtual hard disks in a SCVMM library by injecting update packages.

VMST 3.0 video module

At the end of this module, you’ll be able to:

1. Describe the challenges with updating offline virtual machines, virtual hard disks, and templates.
2. Explain how the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool will greatly streamline the process of servicing and updating offline virtual environment.

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The Belgian System Center User Group scug.be has annouced their next event: the System Center Day for which they secured some top speakers like Wally Mead, Travis Wright, Jason Buffington, four Belgian System Center MVP's and other System Center experts.

This event will also be your opportunity to socialize with fellow System Center administrators and consultants and exchange knowledge, meet with one of the most popular Microsoft speakers of all time and have a nice lunch with the four Belgian System Center MVP's and the System Center product managers!

• Date: Wednesday 3 November 2010
• Location: Living Tomorrow, Vilvoorde
• Registration website

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