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March 2011 - Technical Rollup Mail - Manageability

News

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 4 has shipped

The big update this month is the release of Cumulative Update 4 for OpsMgr 2007 R2. This update includes a number of fixes, support for upgrading to SQL 2008 R2, and a new feature which helps Management Servers recover from a database outage.

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2449679

Operations Manager 2007 R2 lands Microsoft as a Gartner Magic Quadrant ‘Leader’

Microsoft was very pleased to see that in consideration of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, Gartner placed Microsoft in the Leader Quadrant of its ECA MQ !

https://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2011/02/04/operations-manager-2007-r2-lands-microsoft-as-a-gartner-magic-quadrant-leader.aspx

Premier

OpsVault — Operate and Optimize IT

https://www.opsvault.com/

Microsoft Premier Support UK - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

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

Configuration Manager & SMS

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 - Configuration Manager

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

Operations Manager & MOM

The Operations Manager Support Team Blog

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

Kevin Holman's OpsMgr 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/

Brian Wrenn on OpsMgr MP Authoring – Site Home – TechNet Blogs

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

Other

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

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

The App-V Blog

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

The Out of Band Management Support Team Blog

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

Tweets

Operations Manager & MOM

@OpsMgr

Tweets from the Ops manager team

@MPReleases

Notification of new Management Pack Releases as they happen.

Downloads

Operations Manager & MOM

SCOM 2007 R2 VHD

This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. It enables you to evaluate System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=ef67ea4f-b8af-436f-80ae-33936f26f110

Windows Server DNS 2003/2008/2008 R2 Monitoring Management Pack

This management Pack monitors DNS infrastructure health, availability and performance on Microsoft Windows server 2003/2008/2008 R2.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=633b718f-5fe8-47d5-a395-8203f8ec354f

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Monitoring Management Pack

The Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Monitoring Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 cluster environment. It monitors Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 components – such as the head node, compute nodes, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) broker nodes, workstation nodes, the cluster network, and the HPC Job Scheduler service – to report issues that can cause downtime or poor performance for the cluster that is running Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 or Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1.

https://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-us/applications/windows-hpc-server-2008-r2-monitoring-management-pack-12884911376

BizTalk Server 2010 Management Pack

BizTalk Server 2010 Management Pack offers monitoring capabilities for BizTalk artifacts and BizTalk-related platform components. It allows administrators to monitor health state of various BizTalk artifacts such as Send Ports, Orchestrations etc. and platform artifacts such as Host Instances (BizTalk service). Further, this mp includes performance views, diagnostic capability and alerts.

https://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-us/applications/biztalk-server-2010-monitoring-management-pack-12884907218

SQL Server Appliance Base Management Pack

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://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-us/applications/sql-server-appliance-base-monitoring-management-pack-12884910994

Events/Webcasts

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42364#42364

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) On-Demand Webcasts

https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42363

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42365

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42555

Microsoft System Center Overview On-Demand Webcasts

https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42366

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032454027&culture=en-US

New KB's

Configuration Manager & SMS

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Secondary Site server roles do not use Custom Web Sites

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2496160/en-US

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007: Distribution Manager in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 may require several hours after startup before it begins to process packages

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/956194/en-US

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2: Asset Intelligence "License 01A" report incorrectly reports the MSDN editions of Windows Server 2008 as Windows XP in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 if MAK keys are used

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2481567/en-US

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2: Software inventory is incorrect for .exe, .dll, or .ocs files for Windows Embedded CE 5.x-based or Windows Embedded CE 6.0-based mobile devices in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2483226/en-US

Other

Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010: Description of Cumulative Update 1 for System Center Service Manager 2010 Service Pack 1

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2484853/en-US