CTP of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Documentation

If you do not know even before the RTM release of System Center 2012 Microsoft started work on SP1 of the product. One of the main feature in SP1 is the support for Windows 2012 and Hyper-V 3.0, more features and improvements are expected when beta is released. You can grab the documentation here.

Systems Management & Service Delivery for beginners

You cannot embrace the cloud if you do not know the benefits of it. Microsoft offers another MVA videos this time about System Management and Service Delivery. The key in implementing Private Cloud is to take baby steps. Here are the videos:

Moving the Service Manager and DW Databases

Travis Wright from System Center Service Manager team released an articles how to move Service Manager and Datawarehouse databases. If you are faced with such task click on the link below:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2012/04/22/moving-the-service-manager-and-dw-databases.aspx

Take a guided tour of System Center 2012 and the Microsoft private cloud

Microsoft is offering a free tour on the System Center Stack. Click on the link and discover.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/04/19/take-a-guided-tour-of-system-center-2012-and-the-microsoft-private-cloud.aspx

Schedule Service Manager AD Connector

By default not all Service Manager connectors have scheduling option. For example SCOM connector has and AD connector doesn’t but that is only because the UI doesn’t provides it. Stefan Koell wrote a great article on how to schedule the AD connector or any other connector that does not have UI Schedule option. Without explaining more just read the article below.

http://www.systemcentercentral.com/tabid/143/indexid/92641/default.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+systemcentercentral%2Fblogs+%28Blogs+at+System+Center+Central%29