I’ve been applying Update Rollup 2 on Service Manager 2012 R2 as per the instructions here but in the middle of applying the update in the management server I’ve received the following error: Continue reading “Appling Update Rollup 2 on System Center 2012 R2 Service Management Server Fails With An Error Occurred While Executing a Custom Action:_PatchMP”
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System Center 2012 R2 Update Rollup 2 and Windows Azure Pack Update 2 are Now Available
Time flies by and Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 R2 is now available. Almost all components are receiving update. There are a lot of nice fixes in this update that you will want to squash. Before doing that in production make sure you test them in your dev environment. Continue reading “System Center 2012 R2 Update Rollup 2 and Windows Azure Pack Update 2 are Now Available”
SCSM Maximized Console CPU Issue Will Be Fixed in SCSM 2012 SP1 and SCSM 2012 R2
There is a nasty issue with the SCSM console that when it is maximized it can consume a lot of CPU. This issue has been around since SCSM 2012 and it can be annoying in environments with Terminal Servers. As I’ve reported this issue a couple of times and pushed hard to be fixed I am proud to announce that this will happen very soon for SCSM 2012 SP1 and SCSM 2012 R2. This will happen in the next rollup updates for System Center 2012 SP1 and R2 and you can read more about here along with many other improvements and fixes. I hope you will be glad that this issue is fixed and that it will bring you on new perspective about the SCSM console performance.
A Must Course for Every IT Pro
ITIL may sound as a boring topic but I cannot stress enough how important is. It is not needed to know it to the detail you just need to know enough to do your work which depends on your position. There is a ITIL course on the MVA titled System Center 2012 R2: ITIL for IT Pros which is the right amount of ITIL information to get started and very good presented. Even though I am ITIL certified I’ve still watched it as there is always something new and useful you can learn. Check it out as soon as you can.
Important Links for the R2 Wave
Remote Tools:
Release notes for System Center 2012 R2:
- App Controller
- Data Protection Manager
- Operations Manager
- Orchestrator
- Service Manager
- Virtual Machine Manager
- Windows Azure Pack
- Configuration Manager
WAP:
- Technical Documentation for Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server
- Windows Azure Pack Gallery Resources and SCVMM Service Templates
- Claims Based Authentication in WAP – White paper
- Cmdlet Reference Download for Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server
What is new in System Center 2012 R2:
- System Center 2012 R2 App Controller
- System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
- System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager
- System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
- System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator
- System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager
- System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
System Center 2012 R2 Documents Download:
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Service Manager
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – App Controller
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
- Technical Documentation for Getting Started with System Center 2012 R2
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager
- Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Orchestrator
- Cmdlet Reference Download for System Center 2012
How to Upgrade:
- Upgrade Sequencing for System Center 2012 R2
- Planning to Upgrade System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
- Upgrading System Center 2012 SP1 – Operations Manager to System Center 2012 R2
- Upgrading to VMM in System Center 2012 R2
- Upgrading System Center 2012 SP1 Orchestrator to System Center 2012 R2
- Upgrading System Center 2012 – Service Manager SP1 to System Center 2012 R2
- Upgrading to System Center 2012 R2 – DPM
- Upgrading System Center 2012 SP1 App Controller to System Center 2012 R2
System Center 2012 R2 Evaluation VHDs:
- System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 R2 App Controller – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager – Evaluation (VHD)
- System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager Data Warehouse – Evaluation (VHD)
Windows Server 2012 R2 Updates:
Automatic Deployment of System Center 2012 R2:
Management Packs:
- Windows Server 2012 R2 OS MP
- System Center Monitoring Pack for System Center 2012 R2 – Service Manager
- Active Directory Domain Services Management Pack for System Center
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 DHCP
- System Center Management Pack for Active Directory Rights Management Services 2012 R2
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Azure
- System Center 2012 Management Pack for Microsoft Windows Server AD CS 2012
- System Center 2012 Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Access
- Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (ADLDS) Management Pack
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Network Load Balancing
- System Center 2012 Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Deployment Services
- System Center Management Pack for WSUS on Windows Server 2012 R2
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Print Server 2012 R2
- System Center Management Pack for Service Reporting
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Azure Pack
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites
- System Center Management Pack for Web Application Proxy
- System Center 2012 Management Pack for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Internet Information Service 8
- System Center 2012 Management Pack for Multi-Tenant RemoteAccess 2012
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Server DNS
- System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems
- System Center 2012 – Operations Manager Component Add – On AKA JEE Monitoring
- System Center Management Pack for System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator – Service Management Automation
- System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Cluster
- System Center Management Pack for Service Provider Foundation (SPF)
- System Center Management Pack for System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator
- System Center 2012 Management Pack for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Message Queuing 6.3
- Windows BranchCache Management Pack for Operations Manager 2012
- System Center 2012 Management Pack for Java Application Performance Monitoring – NEW
- System Center Management Pack for Distributed Transaction Coordinator on Windows Server 2012 R2 – NEW
System Center 2012 R2 addons:
- Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager – Clients for Additional Operating Systems
- System Center 2012 R2 – Orchestrator Component Add-ons and Extensions
- System Center 2012 R2 Integration Pack for HP iLO and OA
- System Center 2012 R2 Integration Pack for VMware vSphere
- System Center 2012 R2 Integration Pack for HP Operations Manager
- System Center 2012 R2 Integration Pack for HP Service Manager
- System Center 2012 R2 Integration Pack for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
- System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Toolkit
- System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Analyzer – NEW
Development:
- System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions
- VM Role Authoring Tool
- System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager Authoring Tool
- Windows Azure Pack: Service Management API Samples
- System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SDK
Visio Stencils:
- SCOM 2012 R2 Infrastructure Visio Stencils
- SCVMM 2012 R2 Visio Stencils
- DPM 2012 R2 Visio Stencils
- SCOM 2012 R2 Application Visio Stencils
- SCOM 2012 R2 APM
- SCOM 2012 R2 Networking
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013
Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 TechNet Library Documentation
Windows Server 2012 R2 Test Lab Guide
Linux Integration Services Version 3.5 for Hyper-V – NEW
More links to come
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