Updates to System Center 2012 for compatibility with Windows Server 2012 RC

I don’t think the documentation will change very much between the Community Technical Preview 2 and the Release.

 

Technical Documentation Download for the CTP2 release of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1

This page lists the technical documentation downloads that are available for the CTP2 release of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30134

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP2

Updates to System Center 2012 for compatibility with Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate including support for Azure VM and capabilities for Hosted Service Providers

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30133

Check port connectivity on a server without a telnet client

Telnet client is not installed by default for some time now, and sometimes you will find yourself in a position that you cannot install it. Then PowerShell has the answer.

$socket = new-object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient(“192.168.1.1”, “25”)

Free e-book: Introducing Windows Server 2012

This FREE e-book can be downloaded from here. It’s a book written by Microsoft, so a lot of marketing shizzle; This book made me install my first Windows Server 2012;

“Long Live Metro”  GRRR

SCOM 2012 – Default installation is “eval”

Whenever you installed SCOM 2012 it’s installed default in “evaluation” mode; to see wheneven the time-tickin’-bomb will go off, Open “Operations Manager Shell” and paste the following within the box;

Get-SCOMManagementGroup : ft skuforlicense. Version, timeofexpiration -a

To register you installation, run the following command;

Set-SCOMLicense –ProductID “your license key”

Finally you need to restart the following services;
– Systems Center Management
– Systems Center Management Configuration
– Systems Center Data Access Service

SCOM 2012 – Proxy Agent enable

Whenever you start rolling out several agents, It can be hard to track every agent if it’s enabled for proxying; This post will help you enable the SCOM proxy agent for all systems that need it enabled. Open “Operations Manager Shell” and paste the following within the box;

Get-SCOMAgent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled.Value -eq $False} | Enable-SCOMAgentProxy -Confirm

Within SCOM 2007 the Get-SCOMAgent was Get-Agent; for What’s New on PowerShell Commando’s type. Open “Operations Manager Shell” and paste the following within the box;

get-help about_opsmgr_whatsnew