April 2011 - Posts

• System Center Advisor Part 2 Installation

  In the previous blogpost I gave you a short overview of System Center Advisor. Let’s have a look at the installation of System Center Advisor. The installation is straight forward and easy. Advisor System Requirements At this moment Advisor will analyzes... Posted Apr 30 2011, 05:59 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: System Center, cloud, Advisor

• System Center Advisor Part 1 Overview

  Hi All, I’m going to start posting a series of blogposts regarding System Center Advisor (formerly project Atlanta).  System Center Advisor is a new cloud based offering of Microsoft that will monitor your environment (at this point only Windows... Posted Apr 30 2011, 05:25 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: System Center, cloud, Advisor

• SCCM Advertisements stay in Distribution state Waiting

  Today We had some problems with advertisements staying in the "waiting" Distribution state. After some checking on the client with SCCM client center, I started looking at the CCM logfiles and noticed this in the CAS.log. The client was unable... Posted Apr 27 2011, 06:10 AM by SCUG.be

• SCCM 2012 Odd Issues

  Hi There! Since a few months I'm working with SCCM 2012 and during my LAB experience I encountered some odd issues, which may sound stupid but quite blocking. :-) As I'm quite sure I will not be the only one on this planet that will bump into... Posted Apr 26 2011, 05:44 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: SCCM 2012

• Automatically generate a Computer's name with MDT Db and customsettings.ini

  During the installation we used to prompt for the computer's name, this was completed by the technician. To reduce the possibility of human error we decided to generate the computer's name automatically. There are different ways to achive this... Posted Apr 21 2011, 03:57 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: sccm, OSD, 2007, MDT

• SCOM 2007: installation bypassing the prerequisite checker

  Most of the time the prerequisite checker when installing SCOM 2007 is right that there’s a prerequisite not met to install the specific role or specific item of SCOM 2007. However If you are 100% sure everything is there you can bypass the prerequisite... Posted Apr 21 2011, 05:47 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, scom

• System Center Roadmap 2011

  I’m so excited about the direction that Microsoft is taking with the new System Center products! Below you find the roadmap of the System Center products and what is going to be released soon! Thanks, Alexandre Verkinderen...( read more ) Read More..... Posted Apr 19 2011, 09:20 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: sccm, scom, opsmgr, SCVMM, System Center, scsm, service manager, RTM, Opalis, opsmgr 2012, sys, roadmap

• SCVMM 2012 Beta: Installation process

  I’ve installed SCVMM 2012 beta in my test lab. I thought I ‘d share the different steps involved. Preparations: “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail” Benjamin Franklin. First of all: Get the eval files. You can get... Posted Apr 15 2011, 09:21 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: virtual machine manager, SCVMM 2012 BETA

• SCSM : Enabling SSL on IIS 7.0/7.5 with a domain certificate instead of the standard self signed certificate

  In System Center Service Manager 2010, you can use the deployment guide procedure to deploy the Service Manager Self-Service Portal. The Self-Service Portal provides two Web sites, a self-service portal used by end users and an analyst portal used to... Posted Apr 14 2011, 04:48 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: scsm, service manager

• SCOM: Moving the Opsdb Datawarehouse to another drive

  Recently I got a question of a customer to move the Opsdb Datawarehouse (DW) to another drive because the disk on which it was originally installed was not big enough. In fact they wanted to move the DW to an iscsi disk to boost performance. To verify... Posted Apr 13 2011, 04:57 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: scom

• 4 more speakers from the System Center Product Team at Techdays Belgium

  We've secured 4 more speakers from the System Center Product Team for Techdays Belgium Jeff Wettlaufer (will be talking about SCCM 2012) Adam Hall (covering Orchestrator, the next version of Opalis) Sean Christensen (Service Manager 2012) Clare Henry... Posted Apr 12 2011, 09:13 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, opsmgr, System Center, service manager, techdays, Opalis

• The OpsMgr Unleashed authors on Operations Manager 2012

  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... Posted Apr 12 2011, 08:32 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Opsmgr V10, Unleashed, Operations Manager 2012, opsmgr 2012, un

• SCVMM PRO Tips & SCOM 2007 R2 CU3

  Be careful when implementing SCVMM PRO Tips with SCOM 2007 R2 CU3.  Cumulative Update 3 will break the PRO Tips with Event ID 26319 appearing. You should implement SCOM 2007 R2 CU4 to solve PRO related issues. Also interesting to know is that CU4... Posted Apr 11 2011, 03:06 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, SCVMM 2008 R2

• Preparing SCOM for cross platform monitoring

  Today at a customer I came across a problem with cross platform monitoring. They had several Linux servers running with RedHat distro. They installed the Linux monitoring pack for cross platform monitoring their Linux environment. They installed all the... Posted Apr 08 2011, 06:18 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: scom, linux, Cross Platform

• First insight into SCOM 2012: What’s up next…

  There were actually quite some sessions which gave a good preview of the SCOM2012 version which is pre-beta now and will become RTM by the end of 2012. Until then more and more features will be communicated. One of the most interesting features actually... Posted Apr 08 2011, 03:56 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: scom