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The Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SCCM 2012 SP1) is available for download!!!

m.bertuit — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:36:00 GMT

Hi to all,

Great news, the Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SCCM 2012 SP1) is available for download !!!

What's news in this CU1 for SCCM2012 SP1:

Issues that are fixed

Administrator Console

A Discovery Data Record (DDR) that contains organizational unit (OU) paths that are longer than 220 characters are not processed. The DDM.log file on the site server contains event messages that resemble the following:

CDiscoverySource::ValidateSchema - array property User OU Name cannot expand size so rejecting.

CDiscoverDataManager::ProcessDDRs - Unable to update data source
The Allow clients to use a fallback source location for content option is missing from the Distribution Points tab of the package properties.

Site systems

Replication Configuration Manager incorrectly reports the link status as Degraded and then reports the status as Active one minute later.
Site replication fails after a site database is restored to a new server. Additionally, the Rcmctrl.log file contains the following error message:

ERROR: Received unhandled SQL exception, printing info and throwing it again. This will be retried in next cycle.
SqlException number: [8115]
ERROR: Exception message: [Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.~~The 'spGetChangeTrackingMinValidVersion' procedure attempted to return a status of NULL, which is not allowed. A status of 0 will be returned instead.]

Device management

The Configuration Manager client cannot be installed on devices that contain newer ARM processors. Additionally, the following error message is logged in the DmClientSetup log file:

Fail to get the CAB file name because of unsupported processor type: 0

Software updates

The Allow clients to share content with other clients on the same subnet option in the properties of a Software Update Group Deployment is ignored. Additionally, the DataTransferService.log file contains the following message:

Not using branch cache option.
When a custom port is configured for software updates, an Internet only client may append the custom port to the URL for the Windows Update service. Additionally, when the custom port is set to 880, log entries that resemble the following may be logged in the DataTransferService.log file:

UpdateURLWithTransportSettings(): OLD URL - http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update.cab

UpdateURLWithTransportSettings(): NEW URL - http://download.windowsupdate.com:880/msdownload/update.cab
The Schedule Updates Wizard does not list content for Windows Server 2012. For more information about this issue, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

2793237 FIX: The Schedule Updates Wizard does not list content for Windows Server 2012 in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1

Client

The MicrosoftPolicyPlatformSetup.msi file is now correctly signed.
The selection of multiple targeted applications in Software Center will fail if the calendar region is set to Arabic (Saudi Arabia). Additionally, Software Center displays the following error message:

Software Center cannot be loaded. There is a problem loading the required components for Software Center. You can try launching Software Center at a later time. If the problem continues, you can contact your helpdesk.
The hardware inventory on a computer that is running a 32-bit version of Windows Server 2003 R2 may cause the Wmiprvse.exe process to exit unexpectedly. Additionally, when you view the results of the fault, the details of the fault resemble the following:

Faulting application wmiprvse.exe, version 5.2.3790.4455, faulting module msvcr90.dll, version 9.0.30729.6161, fault address 0x00056b1d
PXE support is added for IA-32 EFI computers.

PowerShell

When the Clear-CMPxeDeployment cmdlet is run, you receive the following error message:

The method or operation is not implemented.
When the Update-CMDistributionPoint –DeploymentTypeName cmdlet is run, you receive the following error message:

Key not Found Exception.
When the New-CMDeviceCollection cmdlet is run, the refreshschedule parameter is not defined in the NewByLimitName parameter set.
When the New-CMDeviceCollection cmdlet is run together with the LimitingCollectionName option, the cmdlet is unsuccessful. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider.WqlQueryEngine.WqlArrayItems' to type'System.Management.ManagementBaseObject'.
When the .GetType method is used for the object that is returned by the New-CMSchedule cmdlet, the method is unsuccessful. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

The adapter cannot get property "GetType" for instance of SMS_ST_RecurInterval.
When the Import-CMComputerInformation -CollectionName "All Systems" -ComputerName "Computer01" -MacAddress "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" command is run, the command is unsuccessful. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

WARNING: The collection All Systems does not exist or is not suitable for adding the new device.

Functionality that is updated:

PowerShell

Help for PowerShell is updated for the cmdlets that are included in Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 and in this cumulative update. In a PowerShell environment, use the Update-Help –Module ConfigurationManager cmdlet to retrieve the latest Help information from Microsoft.

The following cmdlets are added to the PowerShell module:

Add-CMDistributionPoint
Import-CMAntiMalwarePolicy
Import-CMDriver
New-CMAppVVirtualEnvironment
New-CMMigrationJob
New-CMPackage
New-CMSoftwareUpdateAutoDeploymentRule
New-CMTaskSequence
New-CMTaskSequenceInstallUpdateAction
New-CMTaskSequenceMedia
New-CMUserDataAndProfileConfigurationItem
Remove-CMTaskSequenceInstallUpdateAction
Set-CMTaskSequenceGroup
New-CMTaskSequenceGroup
Remove-CMTaskSequenceGroup
Set-CMApplicationCatalogWebsitePoint
Set-CMAppVVirtualEnvironment
Set-CMClientPushInstallation
Set-CMClientSetting
Set-CMDistributionPoint
Set-CMDriver
Set-CMEndpointProtectionPoint
Set-CMEnrollmentPoint
Set-CMEnrollmentProxyPoint
Set-CMHierarchySetting
Set-CMManagementPointComponent
Set-CMOperatingSystemImageUpdateSchedule
Set-CMOutOfBandManagementComponent
Set-CMReportingServicePoint
Set-CMSite
Set-CMSoftwareUpdateAutoDeploymentRule
Set-CMSoftwareUpdatePointComponent
Set-CMStateMigrationPoint
Set-CMStatusSummarizer
Set-CMSystemHealthValidatorPointComponent
Set-CMTaskSequence
Set-CMTaskSequenceInstallUpdateAction
Set-CMUserDataAndProfileConfigurationItem
Start-CMDistributionPointUpgrade

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Application Approval Workflow available for SCCM2012 (Application Catalog) / SCSM 2012 & Orchestrator 2012 !

m.bertuit — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:36:00 GMT

Hi to all,

Great news, the SCCM 2012 application approval workflow is available for SCSM 2012 !!!

What Application Approval Workflow?

This solution accelerator takes an application request submitted through the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Application Catalog and transforms it into a System Center 2012 - Service Manager service request, allowing flexible approval lists and activities.

Prerequisite:

•    Microsoft System Center 2012 - Service Manager
•    Microsoft System Center 2012 - Orchestrator
•    Microsoft System Center Integration Pack for System Center 2012 Service Manager
•    Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
•    Service Manager Portal

& Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Redistributable – 10.0.30319.

Overview

The Application Approval Workflow (AAW) extends your application approval process. End users can easily request applications on-demand directly through the Configuration Manager Application Catalog or via redirection from the Service Manager Self-Service Portal. Application requests requiring approval are routed to Service Manager where custom approver lists and activities can be configured based on user and application properties.

AAW uses System Center 2012 - Orchestrator between Configuration Manager and Service Manager to sync Configuration Manager applications, leverage Service Manager workflows, and post the approval status back to Configuration Manager. We created wizards in Service Manager to configure custom service request template-matching criteria. User and application properties received in the approval request from Configuration Manager are used to select a service request template containing an approver list and activities that best fit your business process.

Key features:

    Sync Configuration Manager applications data into the Service Manager database.
    Monitor and transport Configuration Manager Application Catalog requests requiring approval to Service Manager and open a service request.
    Return the completed approval workflow status to Configuration Manager for handling.
    Allow administrators to define and maintain application selection criteria for specific applications or application groups and specific users or user groups.
    Track service application requests and view application catalog contents in Service Manager.

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System Center Monitoring Pack available for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 (SCCM 2012 SP1)

m.bertuit — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:21:00 GMT

Hi to all,

Great news, the System Center Monitoring Pack is available for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 !

Overview:

This monitoring pack will allow you to monitor the health of Microsoft System Center 2012 – Configuration Manager by monitoring general health; data replication between Configuration Manager sites; server and service availability; SQL Server configurations; Backup and recovery; backlog monitoring; software update synchronization; and other server role configuration.

Feature Summary:
This release of monitoring pack delivers improved capabilities for Configuration Manager monitoring, including the following:

•Monitoring the availability status of all server roles
•Monitoring the health status of key services
•Monitoring SQL replication health status
•Collecting and monitoring performance counters from Configuration Manager servers
•A topology diagram of the Configuration Manager site hierarchy
•Reports showing the availability status and performance of Configuration Manager servers
•Monitoring the status of Configuration Manager alerts

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DCM | Microsoft Security Compliance Manager available for download !

m.bertuit — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:16:00 GMT

Hi to all,

Great news, the new Microsoft Security Compliance Manager is available for download!!!

SCM 3.0 provides ready-to-deploy policies and DCM configuration packs based on Microsoft Security Guide recommendations and industry best practices, allowing you to easily manage configuration drift, and address compliance requirements for Windows operating systems and Microsoft applications.

Overview:

The Microsoft Security Compliance Manager takes our extensive guidance and documentation—including the previously stand-alone product-specific security guides—and incorporates it into one tool, enabling you to access and automate all of your organization’s security baselines in a centralized location.

To access the security guidance for Windows client and server operating systems and Microsoft applications, simply download the tool, and select the "Attachments \ Guides" node within each product baseline tree.

Take advantage of the experience of Microsoft security professionals, and reduce the time and money required to harden your environment. This end-to-end Solution Accelerator will help you plan, deploy, operate, and manage your security baselines for Windows client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications. Access the complete database of Microsoft recommended security settings, customize your baselines, and then choose from multiple formats—including XLS, Group Policy objects (GPOs), Desired Configuration Management (DCM) packs, or Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP)—to export the baselines to your environment to automate the security baseline deployment and compliance verification process. Use the Security Compliance Manager to achieve a secure, reliable, and centralized IT environment that will help you better balance your organization’s needs for security and functionality.

Key Features & Benefits

Integration with the System Center 2012 Process Pack for IT GRC: Product configurations are integrated into the Process Pack for IT GRC to provide oversight and reporting of your compliance activities.
Gold master support: Import and take advantage of your existing Group Policy or create a snapshot of a reference machine to kick-start your project.
Configure stand-alone machines: Deploy your configurations to non-domain joined computers using the new GPO Pack feature.
Updated security guidance: Take advantage of the deep security expertise and best practices in the updated security guides and the attack surface reference workbooks to help reduce the security risks that you consider to be the most important.
Centralized Management of Your Baseline Portfolio: The centralized management console of the Security Compliance Manager provides you with a unified, end-to-end user experience to plan, customize, and export security baselines. The tool gives you full access to a complete portfolio of recommended baselines for Windows client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications. The Security Compliance Manager also enables you to quickly update the latest Microsoft baseline releases and take advantage of baseline version control.

Security Baseline Customization: Customizing, comparing, merging, and reviewing your baselines policy configurations just got easier. Use the customization capabilities of the Security Compliance Manager to duplicate any of the recommended baselines from Microsoft and quickly modify security settings to meet the standards of your organization’s environment.
Multiple Export Capabilities: Export baselines in formats like XLS, Group Policy objects (GPOs), Desired Configuration Management (DCM) packs, or Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) to enable automation of deployment and monitoring baseline compliance.
Available policy configuration baselines include Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Hyper-V, Windows 8, Windows 7 SP1, Windows Vista SP2, Windows XP SP3, BitLocker Drive Encryption, Windows Internet Explorer 10, Windows Internet Explorer 9, Windows Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Office 2010 SP1, Microsoft Office 2007 SP2, Exchange Server 2010 SP2 and Exchange Server 2007 SP3.

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Reminder | System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 (SCCM 2012 With SP1) is available on Microsoft Technet !!!

m.bertuit — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:49:00 GMT

Hi to all,

Just a reminder for you inform that the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager With SP1 is available on Microsoft Technet Website !!!

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The Infrastructure Planning and Design team is pleased to announce that the IPD guide for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager (SCOM2012) is now available for download!

m.bertuit — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:10:00 GMT

Hi to all,

Great news,

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team is pleased to announce that the IPD guide for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager is now available for download!

Download the guide now at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=245476

This guide outlines the infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation of Operations Manager. It guides you through the process of designing components, layout, and connectivity in a logical, sequential order. You’ll find easy-to-follow steps on identification and design of the required management groups, helping you to optimize the management infrastructure.

Infrastructure Planning and Design streamlines the planning process by:

* Defining the technical decision flow through the planning process.

* Listing the decisions to be made and the commonly available options and considerations.

* Relating the decisions and options to the business in terms of cost, complexity, and other characteristics.

* Framing decisions in terms of additional questions to the business to ensure a comprehensive alignment with the appropriate business landscape.

Tell your peers about IPD guides! Please forward this mail to anyone who wants to learn more about Infrastructure Planning and Design guides.

Join the Beta Program

Subscribe to the IPD beta program and we will notify you when new beta guides become available for your review and feedback. These are open beta downloads. If you are not already a member of the IPD beta program and would like to join, follow these steps:

1. Go here to join the IPD beta program: https://connect.microsoft.com/InvitationUse.aspx?ProgramID=1587&InvitationID=IPDM-QX6H-7TTV&SiteID=14. If the link does not work for you, copy and paste it into the web browser address bar.

2. Sign in using a valid Windows Live ID.

3. Enter your registration information.

4. Continue to the IPD beta program page, scroll down to Infrastructure Planning and Design, and click the link to join the IPD beta program.

Already a member of the IPD beta program? Go here to get the latest IPD beta downloads:https://connect.microsoft.com/content/content.aspx?ContentID=6556&SiteID=14

Related Resources

Check out all that the Infrastructure Planning and Design team has to offer! Visit the IPD page on TechNet,www.microsoft.com/ipd, for additional information, including our most recent guides.

System Center Monitoring Pack (MP) for Windows Server 2012 NAP is available for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) !!!

m.bertuit — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:11:00 GMT

Hi all,

Great news, the System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Server 2012 NAP is available for download !!!

Overview

This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate and take corrective action, if necessary. The management pack helps to simplify the administrative environment by providing a single console for the administrator to perform a number of useful management tasks. To help troubleshoot common issues, the management pack contains helpful product knowledge and a way to extend this knowledge through adding your own company or organization knowledge related to an issue. This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate and take corrective action, if necessary. The management pack helps to simplify the administrative environment by providing a single console for the administrator to perform a number of useful management tasks. To help troubleshoot common issues, the management pack contains helpful product knowledge and a way to extend this knowledge through adding your own company or organization knowledge related to an issue.

Feature Summary
Network access protection feature provides warnings over HRA CA certificate expiry dates, missing bindings in the IIS etc.

Monitoring Pack for Network Access Protection.doc

System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Server 2012 NAP.msi

Source

System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack (MP) Microsoft Windows Server File & iSCSI Services 2012 for System Center 2012 Operations Manager (SCOM2012) available !!!

m.bertuit — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:09:00 GMT

Hi friends,

Great news, System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Windows Server File & iSCSI Services 2012 is available for download !!!

Overview

System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Windows Server File & iSCSI Services 2012. This version of Monitoring Pack for File Server 2012 includes the following changes:

DeDuplication – Stay current
FSRM
Support for clustered namespaces
Support for clustered replication group members
Agentless monitoring
More detailed product knowledge
Support for clustered replication group members
Agentless monitoring
iSCSI – iSCSI Target is built inbox first time in Server 2012. This is the first version integrated with File Server.
NFS – Stay current.
SMB – New

Click under for download the System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack (MP) Microsoft Windows Server File & iSCSI Services !

MPGuide_FileServer2012.doc

System Center Monitoring Pack for File and Storage Management.msi

Sources

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta (SP1) Evaluation (VHD) Available !!! [Reminder :-)]

m.bertuit — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:03:00 GMT

Hi all,

Just a reminder for you inform that the System Center 2012 SP1 Suite is available in VHD!!!

Operations Manager – Service Pack 1 Beta Evaluation (VHD)

HERE

App Controller – Service Pack 1 Beta

HERE

Orchestrator – Service Pack 1 Beta Evaluation (VHD)

HERE

Service Manager – Service Pack 1 Beta Evaluation (VHD)

HERE

Virtual Machine Manager – Service Pack 1 Beta Evaluation (VHD)

HERE

Data Protection Manager – Service Pack 1 Beta Evaluation (VHD)

HERE

System Center Global Service Monitor is available for System Center 2012 Operations manager (SCOM 2012) ! [Cloud-based service]

m.bertuit — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 02:08:00 GMT

Hi all,

Great news, System Center Global Service Monitor is available for System Center 2012 Operations Manager (SCOM 2012) !!!

Global Service Monitor is a cloud-based service that provides a simplified way to monitor the availability of external-web-based applications from multiple locations around the world. Importantly, Global Service Monitor monitors applications from the perspective of the customers who use them. Because Global Service Monitor monitors from locations that are correlated to customer geographies, it allows application owners to gain insight into customer experiences as well as separate problems related to external factors, such as Internet or network problems, from application or service problems. The application, rather than the infrastructure or individual URL, is the focus of the Global Service Monitor monitoring experience.

Global Service Monitor integrates with the System Center 2012 – Operations Manager console, so you can monitor external- and internal-facing web applications in the same place you monitor other applications.

Click under for download on Microsoft connect

https://connect.microsoft.com/SC/Downloads