June 2009 - Technical Rollup Mail - Manageability
News MMS 2009: Find out what was announced about Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, the cloud and virtualization, and more https://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/pages/mms-2009-live-in-las-vegas.aspx Gartner report: Compare Operations Manager 2007 with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Find out why upgrading to Operations Manager 2007 may be a good investment for your business. https://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol10/article2and3/article2and3.html Operations Manager 2007 R2 launches Extending monitoring support from Windows platforms to UNIX and Linux servers and workloads, detailed reporting on service levels, enhanced monitoring capabilities for systems and web applications, and more, the trial is now available. https://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9666709 Read the blog: Operations Manager 2007 R2 hits RTM https://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/05/22/om2007r2-rtm.aspx Blogs Steve Rachui's Manageability blog - ConfigMgr/OpsMgr https://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/ System Center WebLog by Russ Slaten https://blogs.msdn.com/rslaten/ The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog https://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/ The Deployment Guys https://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys System Center Configuration Manager Solutions https://blogs.technet.com/mwiles/ Carlos Santiago's Manageability Blog - SCCM/Softgrid https://blogs.technet.com/carlossantiago/ Michael Niehaus' Windows and Office deployment ramblings https://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/ Paul Thomsen at myITforum.com https://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/pthomsen/default.aspx Jeff Gilbert's Web blog at myITforum.com https://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/default.aspx The Operations Manager Support Team Blog https://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/ System Center Virtual Machine Manager https://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/ The App-V Blog https://blogs.technet.com/Softgrid/ Documents Operations Manager & MOM System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 SDK Documentation The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 SDK documentation includes information that explains how to programmatically automate and extend Operations Manager 2007 R2 features. Downloads Configuration Manager & SMS Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool This Solution Accelerator provides automated tools and guidance that IT professionals can use to update offline virtual machines efficiently and without exposing them to security risks. Events/Webcasts Configuration Manager & SMS How Microsoft Is Architecting the Virtual Application Infrastructure (Level 300) Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Microsoft is evaluating Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (App-V) as a method to lower application management life-cycle costs. Attend this webcast to learn how App-V 4.5, in conjunction with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, provides an infrastructure for deploying virtualized rich client applications within an enterprise environment. When planned carefully, the same tools can be used to deploy a virtualized application that would normally deploy a desktop application. https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032415083&culture=en-US Other TechNet Webcast: How to Manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 in Large Enterprises (Level 300) Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Many companies manage significant deployments of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 using its own management console, the DPM PowerShell command language, or the newly released Operations Manager 2007 management pack. During this webcast, we’ll provide some high level information on each of these. But large enterprises often require centralized management and reporting for multiple backup platforms, not only for multiple DPM servers, but across backup solutions from various vendors. To facilitate that, Microsoft has partnered with Bocada, which offers centralized data protection management functionality across multiple protection products. In this webcast, we’ll take a look at the centralized console for DPM 2007 that Bocada has created, as well as look at the seamlessly integrated monitoring of DPM and non-DPM backups within the Bocada solution. https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032412446&culture=en-US TechNet Webcast: Cheaper, Better Backups with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (Level 300) Friday, June 19, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) In today’s economy, more than ever, IT Pro’s are looking for ways to reduce costs while still improving existing processes or fixing things that aren’t meeting expectations – including backup. In this session, we’ll discuss legacy protection solutions for backup, disk-to-disk replication, and long-distance disaster recovery -- and how you can cut costs while gaining better backups and more reliable recoveries with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032412440&culture=en-US New KB's Configuration Manager & SMS Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: A task sequence that contains many packages may take longer to run after you install System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 or hotfix 949225 (Updated) https://support.microsoft.com/kb/955955/EN-US Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: The Ccmexec.exe process may consume almost 100 percent of CPU resources on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 clients https://support.microsoft.com/kb/968635/EN-US Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: You cannot customize the ramdisk TFTP block size on a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 site server that has the Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE) service point role https://support.microsoft.com/kb/968718/EN-US Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: Operating system deployment fails in a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 environment if you deploy a different operating system to a client within one hour of a previous deployment https://support.microsoft.com/kb/969113/EN-US Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: Delta merge may fail on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1-based branch distribution points https://support.microsoft.com/kb/969341/EN-US Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: Users cannot enumerate collection members if hotfix 955262 is installed on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 site servers (Updated) https://support.microsoft.com/kb/969529/EN-US Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: The Ccmexec.exe process may consume almost 100 percent of CPU resources on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 clients https://support.microsoft.com/kb/969530/EN-US Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: You encounter problems after you apply hotfix 955229 on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 site servers https://support.microsoft.com/kb/970170/EN-US Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: Some attributes of a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 client may be missing after it is configured as a branch distribution point https://support.microsoft.com/kb/970242/EN-US Sys Mgmt Svr Ent Ed 2003 EN: Available command line switches for PatchInstall.exe (Updated) https://support.microsoft.com/kb/961726/EN-US Operations Manager & MOM MOM Ops Mgr Serv Ent Ed 2005 EN: The MOM service may crash when you run the discovery process on many agent computers in MOM 2005 (Updated) https://support.microsoft.com/kb/949874/EN-US Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN: Opening the Operations Manager 2007 console may result in an error message after upgrading to R2 https://support.microsoft.com/kb/971285/EN-US Sys Center Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: Support for running System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 and System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1 on a Windows Server 2008-based computer (Updated) https://support.microsoft.com/kb/953141/EN-US Sys Center Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 and for System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1: July 25, 2008 (Updated) https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954049/EN-US Sys Center Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: Error message when you add an agent assignment rule in the System Center Operations Manager 2007 if an Active Directory domain name begins with a numeric digit: "XSD verification failed for management pack" https://support.microsoft.com/kb/968082/EN-US Other Sys Center DataProtect Mgr 07 EN: Error message when you perform various System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 operations after you install DPM 2007 Service Pack 1: "An Unexpected error occurred during a VSS operation" (Updated) https://support.microsoft.com/kb/967509/EN-US Sys Center Essentials 2007 EN: System Center Essentials 2007 installation may fail during Reporting installation due to proxy configuration |