Since the release of SCE 2007 there hasn’t been a supported way to migrate an existing SCE server to new hardware. The good news is that the SCE team has now released a Resource Kit and a documented the steps you need to do. Note that you need to upgrade your existing SCE 2007 to SCE 2010 and then you can migrate to new hardware.
Read the Step-by-step from the team blog
I bet you got a agent in a “gray” state sometime. Now there is a very detailed KB that describe what can be the reason. This is useful for both SCE and SCOM admins
Last month the Swedish Techdays took place and I had the opportunity to present a session about the new release of System Center Essentials 2010. The session was recorded and is now online if you couldn’t attend.
View/listen on my SCE 2010 session
Download the Powerpoint presentation
Today Microsoft announced that both System Center Essentials 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager is RTM.
This week a updated version of the Windows Server Internet Information Services 7 was released:
Download from Microsoft or use the Operations Manager R2 console to download/Import
Note that if you are running Operations Manager 2007 Sp1 you need to install the “Service Pack 1 Update” K971541 before importing the MP. Since this update is not supported for SCE, I’m not sure if the MP will be supported. I will update this post when I get more information
This week Microsoft released two new beta product from the System Center product suite:
System Center Essentials 2010
Read more about the new features
System Center Data Protection Manager
Read more about the new features
Today Microsoft published a technote that state that both Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and R2 is supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
Note that there is some known issues if you upgrade your servers to Windows Server 2008 R2, these will be fixed in updates that will be available in the future. Doing a clean install should work fine.
Also note that System Center Essentials is still not supported on Windows Server 2008 R2.
PS! Microsoft also release an updated MP for Windows Server Operating, we can now monitor Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 Server
Read the technote from Microsoft
A couple of weeks ago the WSUS team released there SP2 for WSUS 3.0. Now the SCE team has announced that SCE 2007 SP1 support to upgrade to WSUS 3.0 Sp2.
Read the announcement on the SCE team blog
Yesterday Microsoft added some more content that will help everyone that want to learn more about how to create a Management Pack. If you open the TechNet site and click on the Management Pack University link you will have 14 videos that describe different aspects related to building Management Packs.
Today Microsoft released there first MP for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.
Feature Summary
The Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack provides the following capabilities.
PS! If you are running System Center Operations Manager R2 you can download and import directly from the console
