System Center

How To Monitor Disk Usage with System Center Operations Manager

by Michel Audet

Monitoring how much data is stored on a particular drive and displaying it in a graph and/or report format is often requested by customers running Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Writing a standalone VBScript or PowerShell script isn’t overly complicated, but it generally resides outside of enterprise applications and is often managed and administered by [...]

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Creating Custom Performance Counters in Microsoft OpsMgr (Part 2)

by Mark Farrugia

In my previous post I started down the path of wanting to create some custom counters in Operations Manager 2007, but I could not get started until I had downloaded and installed the authoring console for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007. Now that that task was completed, let’s move on to creating the [...]

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Creating Custom Performance Counters in OpsMgr (Part 1)

by Mark Farrugia

I recently switched disciplines in the Microsoft Premier Field Engineering (PFE) organization, changing from a Platforms-focused position to a System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) focused role. I discovered during my ramp up that I had questions on how to do some easy tasks, and that the answers were not always 100% obvious at first.  For [...]

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What To Do When System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection RC Installation Fails

by Frank Plawetzki

The Issue: This happened to me today on my Windows 7 machine: the installation of Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (Release Candidate) failed with error code 0×80070643. The event log showed this error: Log Name:      Application Source:        Microsoft Security Client Setup Date:          02.12.2011 16:24:13 Event ID:      100 Task Category: None Level:         Error Keywords:      Classic [...]

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The Microsoft Infrastructure and Planning Design Series: Accelerate Time-To-Solution

by Neil Harrison

I often see questions on various Microsoft technical forums requesting information relating to the design of infrastructure to support new Microsoft products in their respective environments. This leads me to believe that there are a lot of IT professionals who may not be aware of the Infrastructure Planning and Design series that exists on TechNet. [...]

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How To Migrate Data Protection Manager Resources to a New Storage Location

by Cheng Pei Koay

I was recently trying to migrate System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) Data Sources to a new storage location and faced a number of challenges, so I’d to share my experiences to help others avoid any potentially unnecessary frustration. MigrateDatasourceDataFromDPM is a command-line script that lets you migrate DPM data for a data source  (e.g. [...]

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Extending the Cross Platform Monitoring Agent in Operations Manager 2007 R2

by Neil Harrison

When System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (OpsMgr) was released, one of the most interesting new features was the addition of Cross Platform monitoring or, in other words, Unix/Linux monitoring. Having been involved with Enterprise monitoring for almost a decade now I was really intrigued by what OpsMgr could do in this area. It turns [...]

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How to Manually Capture an OS Image using ConfigMgr

by Kip Ng

In System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr), you can install the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 and it has a task sequence template that you can use to automate the OS deployment, SysPrep it and then Capture the OS as an Image as well. These are all good, but sometimes you may want to do [...]

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Troubleshooting OSD Task Sequences in System Center Configuration Manager 2007

by Kip Ng

One of the most annoying things when we have a problem with OSD (Operating System Deployment) Task Sequences in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) is that you don’t usually get any error indicating any problem. Most of the time, all you see is the following screen and, after a short wait, you get [...]

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Creating Dashboards in Operations Manager 2007 R2 Using Visio 2010

by Neil Harrison

Have you ever wondered how to create your own dashboard views based off of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 data but weren’t quite sure how? It turns out that there is a Visio Add-In tool available that makes this quite easy to do if you have a little bit of Visio knowledge to work [...]

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How To Create a Certificate for a PXE Service Point in SCCM 2007

by Kip Ng

Most companies that I come across run System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 mixed mode especially when they do not have any Internet-based clients. Of course, there are some companies who choose to use Native mode because of security requirements.  One thing about using Native mode is there’s heavy usage of certificates which can be [...]

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How To Build A Simple and Efficient Windows Monitoring Solution (DTW)

by Samuel Drey

In this article, I’ll provide a quick reference guide and an Excel-based tool that allows you to build monitoring consoles using HTML without being a scripting star.  I call it the Document-Tool-Walkthrough (DTW). This is a new concept document/tool built using Excel that can help you to build System Monitor consoles that are centrally stored [...]

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How To Migrate User State between PCs using SCCM 2007 Task Sequences

by Neil Harrison

The other day, a customer asked me for some information on how to get started with capturing user state within System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007 as they have an upcoming Windows 7 mass deployment.  As a result, I was hunting around online for an example or a scenario that I could forward on which [...]

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