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System Center 2012 SP1 is now available for public download. I am actually refreshing few demo labs I have. System Center Operation Manager is one those components in System Center actually has quite few prerequisites. Configuring these prerequisites can be frustrating, especially if you are doing it for the first time. There is a way to actually simply this by using PowerShell, which is pretty much the coolest tool for efficiency. The real credit of this goes to Ke****vin Greene, a system center MVP, who posted a details blog post on this. Here are the two scripts that I often use for Combined Management server deployment of SCOM2012 SP1. Windows Server 2008 - Combined Management Server, Operations Console and Web Console Roles PreReq Script #This section will install all the Windows Server 2008 Roles and Feature Prereqs for the Web Console Role# import-module servermanager Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-Core,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Filtering,Web-Stat-Compression,AS-Web-Support,Web-Metabase,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Windows-Auth,AS-HTTP-Activation –restart #This section will download the Report Viewer Distributable Prereq for the SCOM 2012 SP1 Operations Console role on Windows Server 2008 to a folder on the C:\ drive called SCOM2012SP1Prereqs and will then install it automatically # $dwnld = “C:\SCOM2012SP1Prereqs” if (!(Test-Path -path $dwnld)) { New-Item $dwnld -type directory } $object = New-Object Net.WebClient $RPTurl = ‘http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/A/1/EA1BF9E8-D164-4354-8959-F96843DD8F46/ReportViewer.exe' $object.DownloadFile($RPTurl, “$dwnld\ReportViewer.exe”) Start-Process -FilePath “$dwnld\ReportViewer.exe” -ArgumentList /q -Wait #This section will download the .NET Framework 4.0 Redistributable Prereq for Windows Server 2008 to a folder on the C:\ drive called SCOM2012SP1Prereqs and will then install it automatically# $dwnld = “C:\SCOM2012SP1Prereqs” if (!(Test-Path -path $dwnld)) { New-Item $dwnld -type directory } $object = New-Object Net.WebClient $RPTurl = ‘http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/A/95A9616B-7A37-4AF6-BC36-D6EA96C8DAAE/dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe’ $object.DownloadFile($RPTurl, “$dwnld\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe”) Start-Process -FilePath “$dwnld\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe” -ArgumentList /q -Wait #This section will enable the ISAPI and CGI extensions for IIS and .NET 4.0 once the .NET 4.0 redistributable has been installed# c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config /section:isapiCgiRestriction /[path=`‘C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll`’].allowed:True Click here to download this PowerShell script as a .PS1 file ...

Apart from real time monitoring, AVICode also provides intelligent information on each of those alerts. These detailed information can be access by click on each alert and select “Click here for additional Event details” In the detailed event view, Distributed Chains shows the average total time for each page. This information helps developers to understand which page takes most of the time. Performance Counters has a timeline view for different metrics which provides more insights to the developer team. Intelligent report in AVIcode provides Summary Failure Analysis, Summary Performance Analysis, Summary user Analysis. These reports helps to identify quick wins and address application issues that can make big impact. Summary Failure Analysis – It shows the top failures of a particular application. Like below example the top 1 failure is counted for 50% of the failure of the applications. Developer team and infrastructure team may want to address that failure issue immediately and application availability can be improved. Summary Performance Analysis - Similiarly Summary Performance Analysis shows the top performance issue. As below example address the top 1 issue can address 44% of the application performance issue. Summary User Analysis – It has details on Security, Connectivity, Performance, and Failure that related to each individual user. It perticularly useful for development team to resolve issues for VIP end users.