The SCOM team over at Microsoft is looking for your feedback! If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I with SCOM had feature X” as I’m sure many of us have this is the time to have your voice heard. This is where cool stuff like the built in maintenance mode feature in the upcoming SCOM 2016 comes from.
Link to the Survey request – here
Microsoft has released a new version of the Windows Server Print Server MP version 6.0.7294.0 is available for download here.
New in this version:
Kevin Holman has more in this management pack here with a warning for those of you with large print environments.
Veeam has announced the beta for version 8 of their Veeam Management Pack for System Center.
v8 is available for download here.
Here is a brief rundown of the new features in addition to overall tuning and general improvements :
Sphere 6.0 support – pretty much self explanatory
The Morning Coffee report – Veeam MP’s new Infrastructure Summary report provides a single overview report to check the status of the entire environment.
Hybrid Cloud Capacity Planning report – The report now offers updated analytics with improved logic and accuracy.
Checkpoint/vSphere snapshot tracking – Now includes a heatmap to assist in quickly identifying storage-related performance issues across the entire virtual environment
Support for SMB shares for Hyper-V – SMB shares can now be seen in the Storage Topology view, with drill-down to the virtual machine (VM) level.
For more information check out Veeams site.
This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in April 2015. Information and download location in the links provided:
Cisco IMC MP version 1.2(1) – here
DPM 2012 R2 MP V 4.2.1276.0 – here
NiCE Log File MP v1.30 – here
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V MP v7.1.10107.0 – here
Windows Server Storage Spaces 2012 R2 MP v1.1.253.0 – here
If you know of any other Management Packs that have been released recently that I may have missed leave me a note in the comments and I’ll add them.
Another addition addition with Technical Preview 2 for SCOM 2016 is the inclusion of a management pack for Open Source Software.
is is available for download here
Currently the following products are supported:
Guides are available detailing the current capabilities of the management packs.
A question I’ve often posed regarding SCOM is, “Why do should we be using 3rd party utilities to perform certain functions?” and the one that comes up most frequently is scheduling maintenance mode.
Well it’s finally here and i’m not surprised to see it as the first feature cropping up in the community blogs, as it is exciting, we’re finally getting the ability to create maintenance mode schedules from inside the product.
You can find this feature under the administrators node in the console.
I for one am certainly looking forward to see what other surprises are in the System Center goodie bag, more to follow.
Microsoft has announced Technical Preview 2 for the upcoming System Center 2016.
The VHD for SCOM is available for download here a link to the other System Centers products is under the details section.
New features in System Center 2016 technical preview 2 include: