September - Technical Rollup Mail - System Center

News

Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012

This rollup includes updates for App Controller, Data Protection Manager (DPM), Operations Manager (OpsMgr), Orchestrator, Service Manager (SCSM) and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2706783

Premier

OpsVault — Operate and Optimize IT

https://www.opsvault.com

Microsoft Premier Support UK - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/mspremuk/

General

Steve Rachui's Manageability blog - ConfigMgr/OpsMgr - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/

MSDN Blogs

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/rslaten/

TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/manageabilityguys/

Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/

Insufficient data from Andrew Fryer - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/andrew/

Configuration Manager & SMS

The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/

The Deployment Guys - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys

System Center Configuration Manager Solutions - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/mwiles/

Carlos Santiago's Manageability Blog - Configuration Manager - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/carlossantiago/

Michael Niehaus' Windows and Office deployment ramblings - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/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

Operations Manager & MOM

The System Center Operations Manager Support Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/operationsmgr/

Kevin Holman's System Center Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/

Jonathan Almquist on Operations Manager - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/jonathanalmquist/

Jimmy Harper's Operations Manager Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/jimmyharper/

Emre's OpsMgr Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/emreguclu/

MPAuthor - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/mpauthor/

Orchestrator

System Center: Orchestrator Engineering Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/

Other

System Center: Virtual Machine Manager Engineering Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/

The Microsoft Application Virtualization Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/

The Out Of Band Management Support Team blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

https://blogs.technet.com/b/oob/

Tweets

Operations Manager & MOM

@OpsMgr

Tweets from the Ops manager team

@MPReleases

Notification of new Management Pack Releases as they happen.

@MS_SystemCenter

We are the System Center Support team. We support App-V, ConfigMgr, DPM, MED-V, Opalis, OpsMgr, Server App-V, Service Manager, SCE, SCVMM, WSUS and more.

@system_center

The folks at Microsoft who work on the System Center family of products and solutions.

Downloads

Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Data Warehouse Appliance V2

The System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Data Warehouse (MDW) Appliance V2 provides capabilities to discover, monitor, and manage your SQL Server MDW appliances.

https://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/monitoring-pack-for-microsoft-data-warehouse-appliance-v2-12884944484

Monitoring Pack for SQL Server Base Appliance

The SQL Server Appliance Base Management Pack helps you manage your SQL Server Appliances by discovering different types of SQL Server Appliances in your network and distinguishing them from other Windows Servers.

https://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/monitoring-pack-for-sql-server-base-appliance-12884910994

Monitoring Pack for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems

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 systems. The management packs monitor components such as processes, resources, and server agents. The monitoring provided by the management packs includes availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of UNIX and Linux components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios. In addition to health monitoring capabilities, the management packs include reports, diagnostics, tasks, and views that enable near real-time diagnosis and resolution of detected issues. The management packs also enable the installation of the Audit Collection Services for UNIX/Linux Management Packs.

https://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/monitoring-pack-for-unix-and-linux-operating-systems-12884940847

Events/Webcasts

None This Month

New KB's

Configuration Manager & SMS

Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Migrating a driver package to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager fails with "SCCM Provider is missing read, write, or delete privilege"

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2741405/en-US

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007: An update for the bootstrap certificate in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Asset Intelligence is available

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2733615/en-US

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003: Summary of command-line syntax for software updates in Systems Management Server

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/810232/en-US

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003: An Office update package cannot be installed on the SMS 2003 client computer successfully if Office on the client is installed as a per-user installation

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/886022/en-US

Operations Manager & MOM

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: The Run As Account that you create in System Center Operations Manager does not run a task successfully

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/936221/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Even though you install the agent on the physical nodes of an SQL cluster, the cluster resource does not appear in System Center Operations Manager

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/946427/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Operations Manager agents consume 100 percent of CPU resources for the Monitoringhost.exe process

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/974051/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Responses that are scheduled by the Operations Manager agent may not run at the  specified time

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/974098/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Error message when you try to install System Center Operations Manager on Windows Server 2008

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/974886/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: One or more management servers and their managed devices are dimmed in the Operations Manager Console of Operations Manager

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/975057/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2: E-mail notification messages are not sent when you use the "With specific text in description" option in Operations Manager

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/978359/en-US

Orchestrator

Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator: Orchestrator Run Program activity returns "Process creation failed" "The system cannot find the file specified" error

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2748718/en-US