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
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.
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.
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.
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