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Author Archives: Marcel Zehner
Strong name key files for sealing your MPs … hmmmm?!
You may have heard that sealing Management Packs (MPs) is a good practice. This is definitely the case when you have MPs that contain classes, class extensions etc. because you can reference to those classes from other MPs. Referencing is … Continue reading
Dealing with multiple Management Servers 1/3: Install an additional Management Server
Having more than one Management Server offers a lot of benefits. Therefore I decided to write a series of blog posts that demonstrate how to install and use, load balance and decommission Service Manager Management Servers.
Posted in SCSM
Tagged fault tolerance, load balancing, management group, management server, mg, MS, nlb
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Service Manager Management Group Documentation
Wow, that was a long time without blogging. The reason why is that I have tons of System Center projects to work on and my time is somehow vanishing. But now be prepared for a series of new posts on … Continue reading
More transparency in SLO Management by reusing the “Target Resolution Time” field
SM12 has a great feature for Service Level Management. I will not go into any details because this was already described here or here. With SM12 you are very flexible to deal with different service levels, metrics and also time … Continue reading
Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM)
Tagged runbook, sco, service level, slo, target end date, target resolution time
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Import additional properties of ADDS Users to the CMDB
Step 1 – Prepare VIP User attribute in ADDS If you need more information about OIDs check out this link –> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms677620(v=vs.85).aspx Step 2 – Sync VIP User attribute to CMDB Install ADDS Powershell Module on Runbook Servers
Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM)
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Error when installing SCSM12 and SCO12
Today I ran into a problem when installing some new Private Cloud components for a customer. When installing SC Orchestrator 2012 and SC Service Manager 2012, after going through the wizard, I immediately got an MSI error with ID 1639 … Continue reading
Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM)
Tagged 1639, error, installation, msi, password, problem
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It’s all about the Service
When talking about monitoring and management IT people tend to focus on infrastructure components like servers, network devices etc. This is indeed important, but even more interesting is to have an eye on your applications and services that are consumed … Continue reading
Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM)
Tagged application, connector, distributed application, integration, scom, scsm, scvmm, service
3 Comments
Download MMS Sessions
My fellow colleague Stefan Roth over at http://blog.scomfaq.ch published a cool PowerShell script that allows you to download all (or selected) wmv files recorded at Microsoft Management Summit 2012 for offline viewing. This is definitely a great time saver if … Continue reading
Private Cloud Exam 70/71-246 – my Experience
Today at MMS I took the Private Cloud exam 71-246 “Monitoring and Operating Private Cloud with System Center 2012”. This is one of the exams you need to pass to get the new “MCSE: Private Cloud” certification (Microsoft Certified Solutions … Continue reading
System Center 2012 Global Availability (RTM)
I’m attending MMS in Las Vegas these days. At today’s keynote (2 minutes ago) Brad Andersen announced the global availability of System Center 2012! This is pretty cool as you can now start designing and implementing all the cool things … Continue reading
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