The following article will cover a basic install of System Center Service Manager 2012 R2.   The concept is to perform a limited deployment of SCSM, similar to our deployment guide on TechNet:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...

System Center Orchestrator 2012 is extremely easy to setup and deploy.  There are only a handful of prerequisites, and most can be handled by the setup installer routine. The TechNet documentation does an excellent job of detailing the system requirements...

Update 11/29/2012:   This article is current as of the 6.3.173.1 version of the SQL MP.   Using RunAs accounts and profiles is an often poorly understood area of OpsMgr.  As I began to investigate setting this up for the SQL MP, I quickly...

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=10631 On 10/14/2013 The SQL MP was updated. There is a huge number of updates, fixes, and new features that were released in this version (and the version which shipped...

  Here is something that a customer brought to my attention, and is probably impacting you already.   They noticed that WMI on some of their Server 2008R2 monitored agents was consuming a large amount of memory – and continually increasing. ...