System Center 2012 SP1 CTP 2 are now out

Service pack 1 will give alot of important stuff to the System Center 2012 family, for instance Windows 8(2012) support for Sccm and Scom. Also backup for de-duplication volumes will be supported in DPM.

Maybe the most exciting news for some people will be the support in SCCM for Mac OS and Linux and Unix servers.

For more info you can go here:

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager

It have taken some time, but it now looks like the IPD guide for System Center will start to arrive (in beta versions first). First one out are Scvmm (Well the System Center Service Manager have been there for a while)

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guides are documents writen by Microsoft to help, like the name says, plan and design implementation of technologies and solutions.

You will fing IPD on the following technologies:

Virtualization Windows Server 2008 System Center Microsoft SQL Server

Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios Communication & Collaboration Security

The IPD site are located here

Everything you wanted to know about System Center 2012, but didn't dear to ask

You can find a real nice survival guide for the entire System Center 2012 package here

For sure this will be the greates every release of System Center products, and most of the product comes with the greates upgrade ever.

So as an Microsoft infrastructur guy there will be lots of excitement ahead.

How to setup the Sccm console on your own PC

Working with the management console for SCCM on the server might be a slow experience, and often it's not a sign for bad performance on the sever itself (even though it might be).

The main reason are that your session are a foreground session, and you will then have low priority on the server system since it as default are setup to prioritize background sessions. This is how it should be on a server so don't go in and change this. The solution are to install the Sccm console on your own pc and run it from there.

MDT: TimeZoneName and index number list

Remebering time zone name and number are a hasle so here are the list for the next time you (or I) need it.

Norwegian settings for MDT are:

TimeZone=110
TimeZoneName=W. Europe Standard Time

(InputLocale=0414:00000414)

(KeyboardLocale=nb-NO)

The complete list are as following:

Linux running on Hyper-V

A great news for people wanting to run Hyper-V but have problems setting up the Linux integration components on there linux VM's. Micosoft have been working hard after the code intended to ble implimentet into the kernel back in 2009 was rejected and have now been accepted into the next kernel version.

The changes will be availabe in Linux kernel 3.0.0 and will be a major step in making Hyper-V the best choice for virtualization undependent on what you want to virtualize.

More details can be found on David A. Wheeler's Blog here

NIC 2012 Speaking engagement

In january I will be speaking on the Nordic Infrastucture Conferense in Oslo. For more info about the conference you can visit http://www.nic2012.com/

The list of speakers are impressiv and contains some of the best speakers world wide and on all your favorite Microsoft technologies ranging from powershell to the cloud.

For a list of speaker syou can go here http://www.nic2012.com/nic2012_program/speakers

My topic this time are on management and SCOM 2012

Hope to see you there!

Nordic Infrastructure Conferense

Great Data Protection Manager Bare Metal Recovery Guide

Twitter is a great media, you get lots of info, tips and like in this case a guide.
This bare metal recovery guide are easy and well explained, so I recommend it for anybody using Scdpm and haven't berformed a bare metal recovery yet, or if yo want to understand the product better.


http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2011/11/01/data-protection-manager-2010-and-bare-metal-restore.aspx

Seminar hos EDB Ergogroup Bergen

Velkommen til en opplevelsesrik Microsoft-dag Torsdag 24. november setter Microsoft opp sitt fantastiske opplevelsessenter i lokalene våre på Bryggen i Bergen.  Sammen med andre kunder får du et innblikk i mulighetene som teknologien gir. Vi fokuserer spesielt på hvordan oppnå bedre kommunikasjon og samhandling i egen virksomhet og ut mot samarbeidspartnere/kunder. Du får garantert ideer som kan tas i bruk i egen virksomhet! For IKT-medarbeidere tilbyr vi korte foredrag innen Microsoft teknologi; Windows 8, Windows Phone 7.5 (kodenavn Mango), SharePoint 2010, CRM 2011, Microsoft BI, Microsoft Lync, System Center Roadmap mm. Disse går fortløpende utover ettermiddagen i korte “slot’er” à 20 min slik at har anledning du får med deg  – og kryss av på påmeldingsskjemaet hva du vil delta på. Vi starter med en uformell lunsj fra kl. 11:30. Deretter blir det noen timer med faglig påfyll, før det blir litt god mat, drikke og mulighet til å mingle med våre konsulenter og andre kunder. Litt mer om opplevelsessenteret; Microsoft opplevelsessenter er en arena hvor kunder selv kan prøve og få en opplevelse av hvordan Microsoft-teknologi kan bidra til å; ·         nå strategiske virksomhetsmål ·         oppnå økt produktivitet ·         redusere kostnader knyttet til kommunikasjon og informasjonsarbeid …gjennom forbedret kommunikasjon og samhandling. Hjertelig velkommen! Hilsen oss i EDB ErgoGroup Consulting Bergen

Påmelding klikk her Tid: 24. november 2011 kl. 11:30-18:00-> Sted: EDB ErgoGroup Bergen, Bryggen 3 Målgruppe: IT og ledelse Deltakeravgift: gratis Spørsmål? Kontakt Arild Pedersen på mail eller telefon 930 55 885.

Scom 2012 Beta out now

And you find a link to the download and info here

Biggest focus are cloud of course (Manage both public and private cloud as well as your datacenter)

This is what the Q&A picks out as the biggest news:

·         Common console across datacenter and clouds. You get a consistent view across the Operations Manager 2012 console, web console, and SharePoint, with the information you need to keep IT services running across datacenter and cloud resources. In addition, you can use dashboard templates to create custom views tailored to your specific needs.

·         Rich Application Performance Monitoring: With newly integrated AVIcode technology for monitoring .NET applications, Operations Manager 2012 delivers .NET application performance monitoring and diagnostics. Additionally, support for JEE application health monitoring has been added to help ensure the availability of a broad number of business-critical applications and services.

·         Support for heterogeneous environments. If you run a variety of operating systems—Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers and their workloads—Operations Manager 2012 provides a single console to monitor this heterogeneous environment.

·         Integrated network device monitoring and alerts. Operations Manager 2012 now includes network device monitoring. Instead of simply monitoring each server, it is now possible to look at the underlying network topology that connects the servers. You get a single end-to-end view to help you understand how your server and network infrastructure is working as a whole—from node to network to servers to applications and services.

·          Simplified management infrastructure. The use of management servers and server pools enables a highly available monitoring infrastructure without expensive hardware or complicated configurations. And with one-step setup for high availability, you get support for automatic failover.

 And they have acctualy set a relase time frame (even though its just statet as first half of 2012)