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”

Quick Look at System Center Service Management Automation Management Pack

Let’s have a look Service Management Automation MP for SCOM.

Before importing the MP you need to create Run As account in SCOM and that account needs to have logon and read access to the SMA database. Continue reading “Quick Look at System Center Service Management Automation Management Pack”

From Orchestrator to Service Management Automation: Migration Scenarios

Service Management Automation (SMA) is the next gen IT Automation tool. SMA has some certain advantage over Orchestrator but also some limitations and vise versa. Nevertheless I am taking in consideration that you are aware of these advantages and limitations and you’ve decided to move fully or partially from SCO to SMA. Continue reading “From Orchestrator to Service Management Automation: Migration Scenarios”

Installing System Center Service Management Automation Worker Role Fails with MSI Error 1603

I was deploying SMA recently and bumped in into the following error while installing the Worker Role: Continue reading “Installing System Center Service Management Automation Worker Role Fails with MSI Error 1603”