June 2011 - Posts

• System Center IPs and QIK for use with Orchestrator 2012 : Installation & Overview

  Adam Hall, Senior Technical Product Manager for Orchestrator, just posted new Orchestrator Integration Packs for the System Center 2007/2008/2010 releases and the Quick Integration Kit (QIK). Quick Integration Kit (QIK): http://download.microsoft.com... Posted Jun 30 2011, 02:26 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: SCOrchestrator

• Very nice blog post about IT Business Service Form.

  Hello, Oskar Landman has written a nice blog about a scenario where an extension was needed on the Business Service class and the impact of this extension on the Service form. The blog can be found on this URL: Creating the IT Business Form in Service... Posted Jun 29 2011, 06:52 PM by SCUG.be

• System Center Service Manager 2012 information (blog) overview

  Hello, I have started with a blog overview for the SCSM 2010 version and received positive feedback on this. It’s a bit early to start with a blog overview for the Service Manager 2012, but there is some overview information published. SCSM 2012 information... Posted Jun 29 2011, 05:49 PM by SCUG.be

• TIP - “SQL Server 2008 SP1 was not found" during installation of SCSM 2010 Data Warehouse Management Server

  Hello, Lastly I had an issue on the installation of the SCSM data warehouse and had an annoying error. At the configuration page of the reporting server for data warehouse I received the error “SQL Server 2008 SP1 was not found” The issue was that the... Posted Jun 29 2011, 01:48 PM by SCUG.be

• Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 : Update Rollup 1 available for download

  Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 introduces new features and updates. These new features and updates are summarized below. The following list is a summary of the updates in FEP Update Rollup 1 for server functionality.... Posted Jun 28 2011, 03:29 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, SCCM 2007, configmgr2007, Configmgr 2007, SCCM 2007 R2, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, Installation, SCCM 2007 SP2, ConfigMgr SP2, embedded, WES2009, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3, FEP, FEP2010, SCCM 2012, ConfigMgr 2012

• Configuration Manager P2V Migration Toolkit – Part 2

  Hi There! In my last blog post I have started exploring the P2V Migration Toolkit for Configuration Manager. I talked you through the wizard and explained the context and the purpose of the tool. In this post we complete the P2V migration process by booting... Posted Jun 24 2011, 09:16 AM by SCUG.be

• SCOM 2007: How to backup your SCOM IIS settings

  This blog post is part of a series how to backup your SCOM environment. You can find the other parts here: How to backup your SCOM environment How to backup your SCOM dbases How to backup your SCOM encryption key How to backup your SCOM IIS settings There... Posted Jun 24 2011, 04:05 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, scom, opsmgr, System Center, SCOM2007

• Got SCCM 2007? Take a look at this XenApp Connector Tech Preview!

  You’ve probably seen XenApp Connector for SCCM in XenApp 6. Now we’re taking it one step further – Along with the Citrix XenApp Tech Preview release, we’re pleased to announce the availability of the next version of the XenApp Connector for Microsoft... Posted Jun 23 2011, 10:35 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, SCCM 2007, Configmgr 2007, SCCM 2007 R2, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 SP2, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3, Xenapp, citrix

• SCOM 2007: How to backup your encryption key

  This blog post is part of a series how to backup your SCOM environment. You can find the other parts here: How to backup your SCOM environment How to backup your SCOM dbases How to backup your SCOM encryption key One of the key factors in a successful... Posted Jun 23 2011, 08:30 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, scom, opsmgr, SCOM2007

• Opalis 6.3 : Integration pack error solution - “Failed to CoCreate IOpalisServerExtension"

  At my customer , we had a weird issue when running our workflow. We had a workflow with a custom start that fired off , but failed at the moment we hit to “add resource to SCCM”. It failed with a error message “ Failed to CoCreate IOpalisServerExtension... Posted Jun 23 2011, 02:49 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Opalis, Opalis 6.3

• SCOM 2007: Convert MOM2005 management pack guide

  Recently I was working on a migration from MOM2005 towards SCOM2007R2. Unfortunately the MOM2005toSCOM2007 migration tool which was included in the SCOM2007 install media was not working anymore so I had to convert the management packs manually. This... Posted Jun 22 2011, 12:29 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: scom, opsmgr, System Center, SCOM2007

• SCOM 2007: How to backup your dbases

  In order to keep the possibility to restore your SCOM environment in case of a disaster you need to make sure that you have a good backup of your dbases. Your dbases keep track of all the info in your environment so it’s crucial that you don’t loose these... Posted Jun 22 2011, 04:30 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, scom, opsmgr, System Center, SCOM2007

• SCOM 2007: How to backup your environment

  The funny thing is most of the admins think of backups just after they had a major crash and there were no backups available. Most of the admin’s think backups are a hassle and they take some but loose interest in the long term. When disaster strikes... Posted Jun 22 2011, 04:07 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, scom, opsmgr, System Center, SCOM2007

• MDT2012 Beta 1 and SCCM 2012 Beta 2 OS Deployment Part I: Creating a TS for a Reference computer

  SCCM2012 beta2 has been release since MMS 2011 in march but I waited with testing the product until now because the MDT2010 was not compatible with SCCM2012. Since a few weeks the beta1 of MDT2012 has been released so let’s see what this killer... Posted Jun 20 2011, 03:45 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: sccm, OSD, Task Sequence, MDT, 2012, MDT DB

• SCOM 2007: Target a rule or monitor to a computer group

  Today I had to explain to a customer how you need to target a rule or monitor to a specific computer group. This is actually not a very intuitive process and if you are used to work with MOM2005 the process is different and can have big implications in... Posted Jun 20 2011, 09:51 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: scom, opsmgr, System Center, SCOM2007