Microsoft released version 8308.871 of the Lync 2013 management pack last night, it is available for download here.
The guide has not been updated as yet so some testing will be required to identify the changes.
Microsoft released version 8308.871 of the Lync 2013 management pack last night, it is available for download here.
The guide has not been updated as yet so some testing will be required to identify the changes.
Silect has released SP3 of their MP Author, the new version comes with a host of new features.
Product information page – here
Request a free download – here
New features:
This article was posted on the Operations Manager Engineering blog this week detailing the newly included support for SCOM 2012 R2 having SQL Server 2014 Enterprise, Standard (64-bit) as its database.
They note the following issues and workarounds to be aware of:
Issue: Installation to a SQL 2014 cluster using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) is blocked by SCOM 2012 setup.
Workaround: Deploy to a physical server and then use the documentation here to move the database to the CSV.
Issue: Upgrade of SQL SRS is blocked due to SCOM 2012 use of Custom Security Extensions.
Workaround: Uninstall SCOM Reporting and run ResetSRS.exe to clear the custom security extensions. Once that is complete, upgrade SQL and install SCOM 2012 reporting again. Can find similar steps in the documentation here.
A management pack has been released for BizTalk Server 2013 R2 , version 7.0.2008.0 is available for download here.
I’ve been tinkering with trying to get a single health view for one of my clients SCOM environments.
I started with the SQL instance as this can be intensive to manually check every component.
Here is a sample of what it looks like so far my next step is to add free space information:
Thanks to Dave Pinal for his post giving me a starting point.
Please leave a comment if you have any suggestions as to what else can be added or if you have something similar.
Cameron Fuller said it best “Even when you spend years working on a specific technology occasionally you are pleasantly surprised to find out that something already exists in the product but you are unaware of it.”
He has written an article which is available here which describes the use of the /SiteName switch when approving a gateway in order to automatically create and populate a group containing all devices being managed by that gateway.
This is certainly a useful feature.
Note – If you use the /sitename switch then bookmark this article by Brian McDermott – How to remove an OpsMgr 2012 Gateway Server that is associated with a site to prevent some future headaches.
Veeam recently released the v7 R2 version of their System Center Management Pack.
Go here for more information, a free trial and pricing.
This update looks to be a nice step forward in terms of functionality and visibility of the virtual layer, which can be neglected when monitoring an environment.
New in this version:
New in v7 R2, if you have System Center agents on any VMs, you’ll be able to drill down in two directions for both app-to-metal and metal-to-app visibility. You can quickly identify apps being monitored on a specific VM to find services and applications that will be affected by compute, storage and networking problems. And you can navigate a topology tree to locate the host for a specific VM to see if there are any problems occurring below this level―whether in that specific VM, other VMs, host hardware or elsewhere.
Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 SP1has just been released, this KB article contains full information around the included fixes. The article also contains the installation instructions and download link.
Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 has just been released, this KB article contains full information around the included fixes. The article also contains the installation instructions and download link.
A fix I am glad to see in here is the one around Specified cast is not valid when opening run as account properties which is an issue I blogged about 2 years ago.
All in all this seems like a good update, as always test before going live.
A new version of the cross platform management pack has been released version 7.5.1042.0 is available for download here.
Updates in this version: