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Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 4 Orchestrator and Service Management Automation)

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In Part 4 we will cover the installation experience of Orchestrator and Service Management Automation. SMA is a new role in Orchestrator that allows you to execute PowerShell workflows of all PowerShell modules. Certainly a role that we have to discover more.

Orchestrator:

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Runbook Designer I’ve already installed so that is why I cannot check it.

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Orchestrator will enable IIS role during the installation:

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I think that option with remote access was not present before but I might be wrong.

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Runbook Designer can be opened without issues:

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When I’ve opened the web console I’ve got an error:

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It seems the installed does not install ASP.NET 4.5 and you have to install it manually. After that the web console will be working:

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Let’s continue with Service Management Automation role which has three components. I will install them on the SCO01:

Web Service:

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We have to install some prerequisites:

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The installation experience looks like the one for Service Provider Foundation as both are web services:

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You can generate self-signed certificate without going to IIS console:

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Runbook Worker:

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These new roles in Orchestrator component all require Windows Server 2012 R2

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It seems additional configuration is needed after installation:

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PowerShell Module

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The installation of these modules goes very fast so I couldn’t capture it.

More exploration on Service Management Automation Role is needed in order to understand the architecture and the full capabilities.

Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 3 Virtual Machine Manager)

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In Part 3 we continue with Virtual Machine Manager:

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Interesting that VMM is marked as Release 2 Preview Smile

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Some prerequisites have to be installed in order to continue:

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VMM 2012 R2 is the component with the most changes comparing to the previous release but the installation experience stays the same – simple and easy.

Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 2 Service Manager)

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In Part 2 let’s continue with Service Manager:

First we have to install Service Manager Management Server

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We have some missing prerequisites:

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The same experience in SCSM R2 like in the previous version.

Let’s install the Service Manager Data Warehouse also:

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All prerequisites are installed:

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For the data warehouse the experience is also the same like in previous version.

Install All System Center 2012 R2 Preview Components and Windows Azure Pack Preview (Part 1 Operations Manager)

The goal of this article is to demonstrate the installation experience of System Center 2012 R2 Preview and Windows Azure Pack Preview. For most components the requirements are almost the same from the previous release. I will not make any configurations, additional posts may come later for this. I this article I assume you have the following virtual machines with Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL 2012 SP1 installed on them:

  • DC01 – domain controller
  • SCAC01 – App Controller
  • SCCM01 – Configuration Manager
  • SCDPM01 – Data Protection Manager
  • SCO01 – Orchestrator
  • SCOM01 – Operations Manager
  • SCSM01 – Service Manager Management Server
  • SCSM02 – Service Manager Data Warehouse
  • SCSPF01 – Service Provider Foundation
  • SCVMM01 – Virtual Machine Manager
  • WAP01 – Windows Azure Pack

The SQL on the machines have different roles installed depending on the requirements of the application.

I will divide the blog post in parts for easier uploading.

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Let’s Start first with Operations Manager:

Installation screen

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Choose the components:

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Installation Directory

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Some requirements needs to be installed before continuing:

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After installing them we can continue

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Give management group name to SCOM

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Accept License terms:

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And the installation experience of SCOM 2012 R2 is the same like the previous version straight and easy.

Installing and Importing Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack 15.00.0620.030

After yesterday’s release of Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack I’ve managed to install it in a development environment. Here are the steps I’ve went trough:

1. Start installation and Accept License Agreement:

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2. Choose installation location:

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3. Import the installed MP into SCOM:

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4. After the successful import you will start see you exchange servers appear in the default views:

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5. After 5-10 minutes you will see all services appear as monitored:

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So these are the steps. Pretty easy and simple. There are no special requirements or configurations. The MP uses the default action account for the monitoring and discovery.

Here are some of the bad news about this MP:

  • I’ve received an error a couple of hours after the deployment. The error wasn’t very descriptive. It had only the error description and a link (to Technet Library) that you can visit to find more information. I couldn’t opened the link  as the page still does not exists. I guess Microsoft still hasn’t uploaded all information about the MP in TechNet.
  • The MP does not collect performance data for Exchange 2013.
  • The MP does not contain any reports.

Here is what I’ve used in the environment:

  • SCOM 2012 SP1 UR2;
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack 15.00.0620.030;
  • Windows Server 2012 with latest updates;
  • Exchange 2013 CU1 in multitenant mode;