A few weeks ago I posted an article about some of my lessons learned for SCOM 2012 SP1 command line installations. It contained a very long Lesson 4 talking about creation and placement and naming of mostly the Datawarehouse database. I discussed the di…
Released yesterday was the Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1. Keep in mind this is not the one for System Center 2012 RTM version (got released yesterday as UR5), Only update rollups for SP1 below!
This release contains updates for: App Cont…
Yesterday Update ROllup 5 for System Center 2012 was released.
It contains fixes for VMM 2012 and SCOM 2012. Keep in mind that this does not include the 2012 SP1, who have their own set of update rollups. From the KB site:
Issues that are fixed in…
Great news! Veeam released the newest version of their SCOM 2012 management pack, what used to be known as Nworks, and is now called Veeam Management Pack. Version 6 is yet another big step forward in the evolution of this management pack.
The news r…
For one of my customers I have been fooling around with a clean SCOM 2012 SP1 install through command line. I ran into some issues and workarounds that you might want to be aware of. There are probably more to come, but I thought it better to post this…
A few days ago Microsoft uploaded some updated SCOM 2012 tools.
The first one is the monitoring pack for Java EE. The Second is the Operations Manager Sizing Helper.
Here is an excerpt of the downlaod page with a description:
The downloads…
My good friend and MVP Kevin Greene put out a blog post here with details on how you can win a copy of Mastering System Center 2012 Operations Manager by downloading and evaluating System Center. Look here for his blog post.
In the case you have done a clean install of SCOM 2012 SP1 you might want to take a look at the file names of the OperationsManagerDW database and log files. They might look like this:
So empty names for the files and ending up with “.mdf” and “.…
Funny things this System Center 2012. As you probably know by now Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 is available for some, but not yet in GA (General availability) status. Expecting that to be soon, and please watch for announcements on the System C…
Was surprised this morning with an email stating I had earned a certification for the System Center 2012 suite. Well, I did the exams in April 2012, so I went and had a look what happened in my transcript. And at first I did not see it, but with a littl…