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System Center Opeartions Manager 2007 SP1 documentation
23 Dec 08
Just in time to give me more Christmas vacation reading material, Microsoft published a update of their SCOM 2007 SP1 documentation.
The following documents were published on December 19th:
- Operations Manager 2007 Operations Guide
- Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide
- The Operations Manager 2007 Design Guide
- Operations Manager 2007 Migration Guide
- Operations Manager 2007 Report Authoring Guide
You may download them from the Microsoft downloads: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852e79859&DisplayLang=e
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta now available
20 Nov 08
Today, Microsoft launched the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 beta for downloading. Particularly interesting is the addition of cross platform monitoring. It means that now, among Microsoft OS or software, you may monitor Linux and Unix OS from SCOM. The OpsMgr R2 release also content new templates for monitoring and the OpsMgr console will be faster and improved.
Read more at Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog and System Center Operations Manager Tech Center
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
19 Nov 08
I have decided to learn more about the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. Therefore I have collected some links and information about DPM. I have not taken a position on whether I should take the certification on DPM yet, but I wish I certainly learn more about the subject, such as to get more whole in view of the Microsoft System Center family.
- DPM 2007 FAQ
- Planning a Data Protection Manager 2007 Deployment
- System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 System Requirements
- Course 2952: Deploying and Managing Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager
- DPM 2007 TechCenter – Library
- DPM 2007 Technical Library Tips
- DPM TechNet Blog
- The System Center Team blog
- System Center Roadmap
Management and monitoring of virtual environments
18 Nov 08
Today I had a presentation about System Center Operations Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. The presentation was held in conjunction with a Microsoft breakfast seminar. The topic was management and monitoring of virtual environments.
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.
The presentation is written in Norwegian.
SCCM 2007 – Infrastructure and Design Guide – Relase
30 Oct 08
Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released a guide for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 with R2.
This guide enables you to quickly select which SCCM features your organization needs in order to meet business requirements. Infrastructure Planning and Design streamlines the planning of a Configuration Manager infrastructure by:
- Defining the technical decision flow through the planning process
- Listing the decisions to be made and the commonly available options and considerations
- Relating the decisions and options to the business in terms of cost, complexity, and other characteristics.
- Framing decisions in terms of additional questions to the business to ensure a comprehensive alignment with the appropriate business landscape.
You may download the guide by visiting Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design and selecting Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, or choose the IPD – All.zip for downloading all the released IPD documents and presentations.
SCOM 2007 – security and hardening
28 Oct 08
System Center Operations Manager 2007 collects important information above your IT-infrastructure. I am sure you don’t want to share this information to each and all, or maybe send the information the wrong path. Therefore it is important to consider security and hardening options for the SCOM 2007 implementation.
I have collected some links for securing and hardening SCOM2007:
- System Center Operations Manager 2007 SCW Roles and Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2003
- Operations Manager Security Guide
- SCOM 2007 Ports
- Infrastructure Planning and Design – SCOM 2007
- Windows Server 2003 Security Guide
- Windows Server 2008 Security Guide
- SQL Server Surface Area Configuration
How to test a registry key in PowerShell
31 Aug 08
In PowerShell you easley can test a registry key with the cmdlet Get-ItemProperty.
PS C:\> $key = $(Get-ItemProperty “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\LJS”).LarsJostein -eq “Silihagen”
PS C:\> $key
True
PowerShell example where you test the installed Operations Manager Console version:
function OpsMgrVer
{
return $ver = $(Get-ItemProperty “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Setup”).CurrentVersion
}
function TestVersion
{
$nr = OpsMgrVer
if (OpsMgrVer -ge “6.0.6270.0″)
{ Write-Host “SCOM 2007 SP1 is installed. ServerVersion: $nr” } else { Write-Host “SCOM 2007 SP1 is not installed. ServerVersion: $nr” }
}
MCP SCCM 2007
31 Aug 08
Friday 29th August I was glad for passing the exam 70-401 TS: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Configuring . In June I took the exam 70-400 TS: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring. So now I am waiting for the 70-403 exam to become MCITP in System Center, but I’m not sure when Microsoft will release the 70-402 exam.
Links:
Operations Manager: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exams/70-400.mspx
Configuration Manager: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exams/70-401.mspx
System Center Product Timeline
25 Aug 08
DirectionsonMicrosoft.com has written and created a nice illustration of the System Center Product Timeline.
Link: http://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/sample/DOMIS/update/2008/06jun/0608smpr_illo.htm
