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Windows Server 2012 Essentials management pack for SCOM 2012 has been released. I missed it a good week ago or so :roll: , but just in case... Here is the link to the Windows Server 2012 Essentials Management pack Bob more »

Whenever you are designing or documenting SCOM environments you are likely to run into Visio to create those pictures with. Now in the past for SCOM 2007 we had the visio stencils which Jonathan Cusson brought together over here. Until now we did not ha… more »

The Infrastructure Planning and Design guide (IPD) for SCOM 2012 has just been released for download. As I wrote before it had been in development for a few months. You can download the new SCOM 2012 IPD guide over here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwli… more »

A few months ago Microsoft released newer versions of the Windows Server base OS management pack. This version had a good number of improvements, especially in the monitoring of cluster disk and cluster shared volumes. However the pack was still not com… more »

Had something funny today, with an unsealed management pack failing to import. It gave an error like so: The management pack cannot be imported. Xml failure while validating maangement pack. [Line: 227, Position 18] hexadecimal value 0x00, is an i… more »

Lately we have gotten many questions about when the book Mastering System Center 2012 Operations Manager from Sybex would be available. It is great that you all have so much interest in what we are writing about and when you can get your hands on it! B)… more »

Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 has been released today. It contains a number of fixes for SCOM, DPM and SCSM. KB 2756127 - Description of Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 explains the fixed items and the methods to download the updates… more »

The Infrastructure Planning and Design guides (IPD) are always a great resource when working through designs for implementations of all kinds of products and solutions. CUrrently the team is working on the IPD guide for SCOM 2012. They have released… more »

As I explained in the previous post on how to check for CU5 installation on SCOM 2007 R2, the way to check for successfull implementation of Cumulative updates has come up as questions in the community a number of times and I found a need as well to hav… more »

During the past year I have seen several requests from people in the community on how they can check if their servers have successfully applied a certain Cumulative Update. Lately I had a requirement to create some test scripts to determine if CU5 has b… more »