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Operations Manager and MSOMS 101

05/02/201807/01/2025
by Martin Ehrnst

Today I was collecting information for a colleague interesting in learning more about SCOM. Apart from sharing my own knowledge, I browsed “all” the known SCOM oriented blogs available collecting information. When I got to Kevin Greene‘s blog he had published a blog post saying that Antoni had rewritten his SCOM 101 PDF in to a new blog series . It is eight years ago since Antoni Hanus and Jesse Harris (Microsoft PFE) wrote an Operations Manager 101 for SCOM 2007. That Antoni have gotten around to rewrite this definitely deserves a blog post just to link to his blog.

Read the entire series here

ps: the original document can be downloaded here. Nostalgia!

Operations Manager

System Center 1801 preview release

08/11/201707/01/2025
by Martin Ehrnst

Update February 8 2018:

Microsoft released system Center 1801 today. Read more here https://adatum.no/operationsmanager/scom-1801-released

Today, Microsoft annouced that a preview of the next System Center realease (1801) is available for download. This is a preview of the upcoming version, scheduled for Q1 2018. The key focus points for 1801 was announced at Ignite and includes.

Support for Windows Server version 1709: Support for the latest version of Windows Server with host monitoring, host management, configuration of encrypted SDN virtual network, Shielded Linux VMs on Hyper-V management, and backup capabilities.
Support for additional Windows Server 2016 features in Virtual Machine Manager: Now customers can setup nested virtualization, software load balancer configuration, Storage QoS configuration and policy settings, and migrate VMware UEFI VM to Hyper-V VM.
Linux monitoring in Operations Manager: Customers can now realize granular log file monitoring in Linux using a customizable FluentD-based Linux agent. Linux log file monitoring is now at par with that of Windows Server.
Improved web console experience in Operations Manager: The SCOM web console has been moved completely to HTML5 with support for all browsers, out-of-the-box widgets, and widget customization.
Updates and recommendations for third-party Management Packs: We released the MP Updates and Recommendations feature in System Center 2016. This has been expanded now to support the discovery and update of third-party MPs.
Faster, cost-effective VMware backup: Using our Modern Backup Storage technology in Data Protection Manager, customers can backup VMware VMs faster and cut storage costs by up to 50%.
In Operations Manager:
- Improvements to Linux MPs
- Linux Kerberos support
- Improvements to Windows Server OS MP
- One setup for all languages
- Improved UI responsiveness with large number MPs
- Visual Studio 2017 support in VSAE
In Virtual Machine Manager:
- SLB Guest cluster floating IP support
- Storage QoS at VMM Cloud
- Storage QoS extended to SAN storage
- Remote to VMs in Enhanced Session mode
- Seamless update of non-domain host agent
- Support for fallback HGS for Shielded VM
- Host Refresher made up to 10X faster

Read the full announcement of the preview here, and the new release cadence for more information.

Community

SCOM Community MP Catalog

24/10/201707/01/2025
by Martin Ehrnst

Another great SCOM community contribution from the guys over at SquaredUP and Nathan Foreman – an open sourced community management pack catalog for SCOM. This basically lets you discover community management packs directly within the SCOM console, much like the built-in version and the announced partner catalog.

It will also show (or notify you) on any updates to the already installed MP’s you have installed and listed in the catalog.

As part of the moderator team, I encourage everyone to check it out or contribute on GitHub

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