If you’re at all interested in automating the tasks you perform in the VMM 2012 SP1 GUI, you probably appreciate the “View Script” button as much as I do. However, even if you have your VM Templates all setup and ready to go, and basically just “Next” through the “New VM” wizard, the generated script
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Getting SCOM ready for the big screen
When I worked as a consultant, the number one request from customers running System Center Operations Manager was “We need to get SCOM alerts on our wall screens”. It is easier said than done. I used to reply this to my customers: “SCOM isn’t a wall-type product. SCOM is a system that looks for every mistake
Regional Settings and Locale in System Center Service Manager 2012
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you might remember the post I wrote when Operations Manager 2012 was in public beta (or was it RC?), and how the console was rendered mostly useless because of some bad choices the team made around display language. I won’t go into detail, it’s all here. Basically
System Center Orchestrator 2012 frustrations
This is me, trying to design a Runbook in System Center Orchestrator. The “head against wall” should really be part of it’s logo. Orchestrator, in case you don’t know it, is the product/company formerly known as Opalis, a company Microsoft bought a couple of years back. And the stuff you can do in Orchestrator, its
WS2012: Live
Stuff is so fast-paced at the moment I pretty much just sleep, work, repeat. In all the chaos and change I wanted to make a note of today just to be able to save the date for reference. We are live on Windows Server 2012. In production. Deployed. And although I’m eagerly awaiting at least a
Note to self: Creating a VM Template in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
1. Perform manual OS install 2. Install latest Hyper-V integration components 3. Shutdown computer 4. Create Template 5. Inject locale settings into image: 6. Add unattend file for remote desktop Guest OS Profile if needed. NB! This will break any unattendsettings injected in step 5. Instead, inject locale-settings into the oobeSystem pass of unattend.xml.
Backup that just works
I have these two stories, and they’re kind of related. Both pertain to backup. The first one: Our Exchange 2010 system was having MASSIVE trouble with backup. The backup guys used TSM and litespeed and what not, trying to get backup to work persistently. I suggested we’d give System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 a
Diving into the “Dashboards” feature of System Center Operations Manager 2012 (and a primer on classes and instances)
Note: This is mostly a reference post for myself. If you find it valuable, that’s fine too. I’ve been looking closer at the various “Widgets” and “Dashboards” included in SCOM 2012 the last week, and here are my findings so far: The basic building block of a dashboard is a template, which forms the layout of your
Sending data to / receiving data from child runbooks in System Center Orchestrator 2012
I was struggeling with how to send data between parent and child runbooks in Orchestrator, so I thought I’d write a quick recap here. Child runbooks can be usefeul in several scenarios such as “code” reuse, breaking apart large runbooks or when you need to run part of your workflow with different credentials. Anyway, here’s
Oh no, you didn’t…?
I don’t know if you read my post about the Operations Manager 2012 Beta language issues I noticed while evaluating the beta and RC bits for System Center last year. Well, guess what: The “System Center language ghost” is back, and this time in Orchestrator/Service Manager. In the RTM bits. And I’m going mad. Here’s the
