May 2011 - Technical Rollup Mail - Manageability
News
The one and only KEVIN HOLMAN has announced that he is leaving Premier Field Engineering and taking on a new role within Microsoft. With his world-famous blog and constant dedication, Kevin has been a huge contributor to this newsletter and to entire OpsMgr community. We wish him the best of luck and hope he keeps blogging!!!
Creating Dashboards in Operations Manager 2007 R2 Using Visio 2010
Have you ever wondered how to create your own dashboard views based off of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 data but weren’t quite sure how? It turns out that there is a Visio Add-In tool available that makes this quite easy to do if you have a little bit of Visio knowledge to work with (or even if you don’t).
MMS 2011, SYSTEM CENTER 2012 AND MORE...
https://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2011/03/24/jeff-s-blog.aspx
Exchange 2010 SP1 Management Pack ships. Version 14.02.0071.0
This is a much expected and anticipated release… the updated version of the Exchange 2010 MP to support Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1.
Premier
OpsVault — Operate and Optimize IT
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
Password Change Notification Service 2003 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007
This PCNS management pack for Operations Manager 2007 supports monitoring for Data Password Change Notification Service 2003. Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update 6.0.5000.16
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=56c96f3b-3f89-4adc-b469-2d96d4e2efce
Windows Server IIS 7 for SC OpsMgr 2007
The Internet Information Services Management Pack provides proactive and reactive monitoring of your Internet Information Services (IIS) environment.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=d351bca8-182b-4223-8c9e-627e184ba02b
Other
Microsoft Operations Framework
MOF 4.0 is practical guidance for IT organizations. With the release of version 4.0, MOF now reflects a single, comprehensive IT service lifecycle—it helps IT professionals connect service management principles to everyday IT tasks and activities and ensures alignment between IT and the business.
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=457ed61d-27b8-49d1-baca-b175e8f54c0c
Events/Webcasts
Talk TechNet with Keith Combs and Matt Hester – Episode 28: The OpsMgr Unleashed authors on Operations Manager 2012 (Level 200)
5/6/2011 9:00 AM Time zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Talk TechNet is about discussing topics and trends in the world of IT Professionals. In our May 6th show we’ll have guests Kerrie Meyler, Cameron Fuller, and John Joyner. Kerrie, Cameron, and John are Operations Manager MVPs
and authors of the System Center Operations Manager Unleashed series, and will be discussing System Center Operations Manager 2012. Call in and join us for what promises to be a lively 60 minute session.
Presenters: Keith Combs, Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, Matt Hester, Sr. IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, Cameron Fuller, Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager, Catapult Systems, John Joyner, Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager, Clear
Pointe and Kerrie Meyler, Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager, Independent Consultant and Trainer.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032484791&culture=en-US
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 Service Pack 2: FIX: Advertisement is not scheduled to run on a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 client if the client computer starts or awakens within the maintenance window
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2392488/en-US
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2: Program does not run in a task sequence on a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 client if the program name contains extended ASCII characters
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2507187/en-US
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2: Asset Intelligence catalog synchronization process may fail in a localized version of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 site
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2518896/en-US
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2: The Distribution Manager that is in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 does not honor the "Number of retries" and "Delay before retrying (minutes)" retry settings
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/978021/en-US
Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003: Ports that Systems Management Server 2003 uses to communicate through a firewall or through a proxy server
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/826852/en-US
Operations Manager & MOM
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: How to test email notification settings in Operations Manager 2007
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/934756/en-US
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2: How to apply a System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 cumulative update to a clustered RMS
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2184500/en-US
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 CU3 & CU4 may cause non-SCOM 2007 services to restart