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System Center–Download Add-ons for System Center 2012

After releasing System Center 2012, Microsoft has also published some add-ons to provide additional features to manage your SC 2012 managed devices. As part of these add-ons, you will find tools and documentation for IT Governance as well as Private Clouds management. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=3C5C8C65-507F-4138-9BEE-8B10DDE1AD6F&displaylang=en&Prod=zSCz&type=zDLz&Loc=zYFCz Enjoy

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SCVMM 2012 – Allow access to virtual machines through portal

For those who were already using System Center Virtual Machine Manager, you already know that you can provide access to VM’s (and self service VM creation) through a portal. The only things are to install and configure access to the Self Service portal and assign ownership to VM’s. With SCVMM 2012, this has a little

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System Center – System Center 2012 products suite are now available

The new edition of the System Center suite – monitoring, deployment and configuration, management… – is now available (at least for TechNet and MSDN subscribers). System Center 2012 is composed by: System Center Virtual Machine Manager: to manage Hyper V and VMWare virtual machines, On Premises and Online (Hyper V Azure) System Center Operation Manager:

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Microsoft Products – Schedule delivery date for incoming products

As you may already know, there is a lot of incoming new product version for the next 12 to 24 months, including the waited Windows 8. Microsoft has published an initial schedule of delivery. Keep in mind this may still change will product groups are still working on many of these products. Windows 8 Anticipated

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SCOM / FAST – QRProxy component shown in a critical state

If you are monitoring your Fast Servers you may have the QRProxy shown in a critical state while search query are working fine (ie returning results) and/or no events are logged on the Fast event log neiher on the SCOM console. You may have an error event on the Fast event log which is saying

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System Center / Visio – Take full advantage of the Visio integration with SCVM and SCOM

Microsoft has provided add-in for Visio 2010 which integrates with SCVMM and SCOM. With these add-in you will have a global vision of your infrastructure and will be able to provide better service. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/18ea5032-532c-4d85-a2cd-fdf4adf3acec to get more details Go to http://visiotoolbox.com/downloads/addins/Visio_2010_Add-in_for_System_Center_Operations_Manager_2007_R2_961.aspx to get the add-in

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System Center Essentials 2010 – Available to evaluate

System Center Essentials 2010 provides IT professionals a unified physical and virtual management experience. Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 provides IT professionals in mid-sized organizations, a unified physical and virtual management experience. It enables you to better secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot from a single console, so you can efficiently and proactively manage your IT

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