November 2010 - Posts

• Fixing the statview 100% cpu issue on Windows Server 2008

  Quite a few people have been hit by an issue where statview.exe, or the status message viewer in ConfigMgr2007 is taking 99 or 100% cpu and is taking a long time before displaying the status messages. The general fix for this has been to open the taskmanager... Posted Nov 29 2010, 06:35 AM by SCUG.be

• System center Integration Packs

  Now that Opalis 6.3 is released you can use the 4 new system center integration packs for: system center dataprotection manager system center virtual machine manager system center configuration manager system center operations manager   Virtual Machine... Posted Nov 26 2010, 05:35 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: System Center, Opalis, 6.3, integration packs, system center IP, IP

• update Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack

  Mircrosoft has released an update of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack version 6.1.7695.0   Go get it here  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=61365290-3c38-4004-b717-e90bb0f6c148  ... Posted Nov 25 2010, 02:21 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, scom, opsmgr, Management Pack, opsmgr R2, Opmsgr 2007 R2

• SharePoint 2010 with Opalis 6.3

  One of my SharePoint colleagues send me this today which is quite interesting: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/emberger/archive/2010/11/23/opalis-6-3-to-orchestrate-sharepoint-2010.aspx   The guy is explaining how you can use Opalis to install all the SharePoint... Posted Nov 25 2010, 02:14 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Sharepoint, Opalis, Action Server, policy, workflows, 6.3

• Enumeration of action servers failed

  Hi all, Today when I wanted to enumerate my Action servers in the Deployment Manager console I got the following error:   I was looking into the logs, eventvwr, database, etc but found no errors. Nothing at all! Very frustrating   The solution... Posted Nov 22 2010, 03:25 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Issue, Opalis, Action Server, error, deplyoment manager

• Opalis Architecture & Workflow Deployment Process “Best Practice Guide”

  Charles Joy,Tech Evangelist from Microsoft just published an Opalis Architecture & Workflow Deployment Process “Best Practice Guide” on codeplex! http://opalis.codeplex.com/releases/55991/download/169141   Thanks, ALexandre Verkinderen Read More... Posted Nov 20 2010, 05:09 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Opalis, Architecture, workflows, CodePlex, process

• Announcing the RTM of Opalis 6.3!

  The product team just announced that Opalis 6.3 is RTM!! Included in Opalis 6.3 are: New Integration Packs for Configuration Manager, Data Protection Manager, Service Manager and Virtual Machine Manager An updated Integration Pack for Operations Manager... Posted Nov 19 2010, 05:07 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: RTM, Opalis, 6.3

• Belgian System Center Day : ConfigMgr R3 – Lessons learned from the field Presentation online

  Hi there , I have recently deployed Configuration Manager 2007 RTM in production at my TAP customer. Those who attended my Presentation at the Belgian System Center Day “http://scug.be/blogs/sccm/archive/2010/09/30/announcement-system-center-day-in-belgium... Posted Nov 18 2010, 03:39 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, sccm, configmgr2007, Configmgr 2007, R3, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3, Belgian System Center Day

• Softgrid 4.1 migration towards ConfigMgr with App-V 4.6 Integration : The story of automation , Part 4.

  Today , I will continue explaining my little migration project to migrate away from a standalone Softgrid 4.1 infrastructure towards a fully integrated SCCM2007 SP R2 App-V 4.6 infrastructure . You can read my previous posts right here : http://scug.be... Posted Nov 17 2010, 06:20 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, sccm, SCCM 2007, configmgr2007, sccm2007, Configmgr 2007, migration, SQL, SCCM 2007 R2, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, Installation, SCCM 2007 SP2, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3, Deployment

• Softgrid 4.1 migration towards ConfigMgr with App-V 4.6 Integration : The story of automation , Part 3.

  Today , I will continue explaining my little migration project to migrate away from a standalone Softgrid 4.1 infrastrucure towards a fully integrated SCCM2007 SP R2 App-V 4.6 infrastructure . You can read my previous posts right here : http://scug.be... Posted Nov 17 2010, 05:41 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, sccm, SCCM 2007, configmgr2007, sccm2007, Configmgr 2007, migration, script, App-V, AppV, SCCM 2007 R2, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 SP2, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3, Softgrid, Deployment

• DPM 2010 QFE Rollup available

  Microsoft has just released a DPM 2010 QFE Rollup. This, much awaited hotfix rollup, fixes the following issues: You cannot protect the Microsoft Exchange Database Availability Group (DAG) on a secondary DPM 2010 server. You are prompted to restart a... Posted Nov 16 2010, 05:55 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: issues, dpm, hotfix, DPM SCDPM Backup, dpm 2010

• ConfigMgr 2007 : PXE Cache Behavior

  Config Mgr OS deployments when using PXE boot , you’ve probably had machines that did not want to boot the task sequence as it stated “No task sequence found, booting onto the hard drive”. This is most likely due to a previous task sequence being advertised... Posted Nov 16 2010, 04:02 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, sccm, SCCM 2007, configmgr2007, sccm2007, Configmgr 2007, OSD, SCCM 2007 R2, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 SP2, ConfigMgr SP2, R3, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3, Deployment, PXE

• TechED Israel 2010

  I’m very pleased to announce that I will be presenting on TechED Israel 2010. My session’s topic: Protecting Microsoft applications efficiently with DPM 2010 Abstract: System center Data Protection Manager allows you to easily backup and restore Microsoft's... Posted Nov 11 2010, 10:33 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: TechEd, dpm, dpm 2010, Presentation, Israel, Ask The Experts

• Chalk-Talk 9 December 2010

  I will be at the Chalk Talk of 9 December 2010.  This event will host several industry experts from Belgium and will give YOU the opportunity to ask your questions. If you have any questions about one of the below topics, don’t hesitate to send them... Posted Nov 11 2010, 09:16 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: System Center, IT-Talks, dpm, pro-exchange, dpm 2010, information, winsec

• ConfigMgr v.Next = ConfigMgr 2012

  A bit late maybe , but as expected, the name for the next release of ConfigMgr, will be System Center Configuration Manager 2012. This was announced during TechEd Europe @ Berlin. The product is currently in Beta 1. Beta 2 is expected be released around... Posted Nov 10 2010, 07:33 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: SCCM v.Next, ConfigMgr V.next, SCCM 2012, ConfigMgr 2012