January 2012 - Posts

• Getting ready for my first Open ConfigMgr 2012 class

  Hi All, I am preparing for my very first teach in an open class of ConfigMgr 2012. The material we’ll be using is the manual me and Kent Agerlund (Danish ConfigMgr MVP) wrote. We started writing at beta2 and have updated the material over the months up... Posted Jan 30 2012, 03:40 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: ConfigMgr 2012

• SCSM 2012 RC : Service Offering Languages not working

  In Brussels, the capital of Belgium, 2 languages are spoken: French and Dutch. We wanted to create a few Service Offerings in Dutch (nl-Be) and a few others in French (fr-Be). To enable users to log an incident in their own preferred language.  ... Posted Jan 25 2012, 11:34 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: issues, System Center 2012, SCSM 2012

• SQL 2008 R2 failover cluster for system center: Lessons Learned (the hard way)

  I had assigned a task to install 5 SQL 2008 R2 cluster instances and on one of them had Analysis Services installed on a two node SQL Server 2008 R2 cluster (along with db engine). Now I discovered that Analysis Services was not needed on one of the instances... Posted Jan 25 2012, 07:22 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: System Center, SQL, SQL Reporting services

• Microsoft Virtual Academy

  A few months ago, Microsoft started the Virtual Academy, also known as MVA. On this site, www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com you can learn about Microsoft technologies. There are different tracks available. Each tracks contains a few videos explaining a... Posted Jan 24 2012, 01:46 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Virtualization, Microsoft

• Techdays 2012–My top 10 sessions

  Celebrate 10 years of Microsoft TechDays in Belgium! Year after year thousands of technology professionals come together to network with peers and experts, while diving deep into Microsoft technologies and learning about the latest products and... Posted Jan 24 2012, 01:32 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Microsoft

• Enable verbose logging on Self-Service Portal

  A couple of days ago, Travis Wright wrote a blog post on troubleshooting Self-Service Portal Issues in SCSM 2012. In this post Travis explains where you can find the SMPortalTrace.log file http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2012/01/20/troubleshooting... Posted Jan 24 2012, 10:20 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Tips and Trics, System Center 2012, SCSM 2012

• SCCM 2012 Offline Event @ Microsoft Belgium

  Hi There! On Thursday March 22 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT+0100) SCUG organizes an SCCM 2012 “offline” event in the Microsoft premises at Zaventem, Belgium Speakers: Kenny Buntinx: Package Conversion Manager Nico Sienaert: What’s new... Posted Jan 22 2012, 06:16 AM by SCUG.be

• SCOM 2012: What’s new: Default behavior of overrides

  This post is part of a series What's new: Check here for the other parts. SCOM has some huge changes on board… But some are rather small and go unnoticed to the untrained eye although they could save you a major headache. I’m pretty sure not a lot... Posted Jan 20 2012, 06:46 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: scom, opsmgr, System Center, SCOM2012

• SCVMM 2012 : Adding ESX 4.1(i) hosts will fail when using root account

  Maybe this is a very small blog post , but I think it could help some people out When you want to add your physical ESX 4.1 hosts with the root account and it does not succeed ( getting an access denied ) , it means that your hosts are in lockdown mode... Posted Jan 20 2012, 05:23 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: SCVMM, System Center, Vmware, SCVMM 2012

• SCOM 2012: What’s new: Maintenance mode changes

  This post is part of a series What's new: Check here for the other parts. In the second part of this series of what’s new in SCOM2012 I’ll be highlighting a small change with big implications in SCOM 2012 in the maintenance mode department... Posted Jan 19 2012, 04:09 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: scom, Operations Manager 2012, sysctr

• Prepare your environment to Operations Manager 2012 – Part II Updating the SQL Server

  Hi All, As promise, the second part of this series will show you to how to update your Operations Manager 2007 R2 infrastructure from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. Pre-requisites Resources I invite you first to read my previous post : Prepare... Posted Jan 18 2012, 09:29 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: scom, Operations Manager

• SCOM 2007: Authoring console can’t find referenced mp

  Just the other day I was working on an MP after updating the environment to CU4 and all of a sudden I got the error that a reference management pack wasn’t found. Ok no big issue. Locate the management pack and reference it… no go… Still the same error... Posted Jan 18 2012, 03:24 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: scom, authoring

• System Center 2012 Major Announcement

  Today during a Private Cloud webcast Microsoft has announced their new strategy on System Center. No longer are the System Center products considered as separate entities: System Center 2012 is now a single product. It is a fullblown suite which includes... Posted Jan 17 2012, 03:35 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: System Center, cloud, 2012

• 2012

  Finally found some time to write up my first post for 2012, so -with some delay- I would like to start by wishing all of you a Happy New Year! I hope 2012 will bring you a lot of professional and personal challenges and successes! For a System Center... Posted Jan 17 2012, 01:12 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Uncategorized

• System Center 2012 RC Released

  Today Microsoft announced the Release of System Center 2012. Please go watch the recording of the web cast to learn more! You can Download all evaluation software . With System Center 2012 RC versions available Microsoft has also implemented some licensing... Posted Jan 17 2012, 01:05 PM by SCUG.be