System Center 2012

Thank you for those who attended System Center Universe on January 31st. We had a full house! This is the first time that System Center Universe was hosted in Singapore and streamed to few countries in South East Asia. It was a fantastic day of technical presentations and demos. Topics covered including: Using System Center Operations Manager for Deep Application Monitoring and Diagnostics Choosing Network Options in the new Hyper-V 2012 and SCVMM Service Pack 1 is HERE! What can I use? Enabling Hosted and Shared Private Cloud using System Center 2012 SP1 Service Provider Framework Using SCCM 2012 to perform More Efficient Patch and Compliance Management How to lighten your IT workload footprint with System Center 2012 and Software Center We also launched the System Center User Group APAC. Join the group now to learn from community of experts on System Center: https://www.facebook.com/groups/31495111417/ if you missed out the session, you can access the speaker presentations and event photos from the link below: http://sdrv.ms/Y73uwD More importantly download and try System Center 2012 SP1: http://aka.ms/SC2012_SP1eval

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 ...

What is Cloud? Okay, ‘Cloud’ is a over-used word these days in IT. Everyone is talking about Cloud, every IT vendor is talking about Cloud. So What is Cloud? Can you describe it? If you cannot, don’t worry you are not the only one. I always refer to the defination by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four deployment models**:** _On-demand self-servic_e, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured service.” For the full defination, click HERE to visit the NIST website. The key word here is “Cloud Computing is a model” A model that delivers ...