Renaming groups in System Center Essentials 2007 May 4, 2009
Posted by Björn Axéll in SCE.comments closed
Have you ever created a group and after some time wanted to change the name of it? This is something I did at a customer and then I found out that the change wasn’t reflected in the WSUS console. To understand why this happens, you need to know how SCE handles groups. SCE is basically a mix of OpsMgr 2007 and WSUS 3.0 groups. Both of these products has its own way of grouping computers, and System Center Essentials combines them into a so-called “SCE DeploymentGroup”. When you create a group in SCE, the following happens:
- A corresponding WSUS computer group is created in the SUSDB database (using the WSUS APIs)
- An instance of a DeploymentSettings type is created in the Opsmgr db
- A relationship is added between the OpsMgr group and the DeploymentSettings instance.
Now, when you rename a group (from the authoring space in the console) – it will write the new name to the Opsmgr db but the WSUS APIs doesn’t support rename of there groups so the name will not change in the SUS db. The membership of the groups between SCE and WSUS will continue to stay in sync since these are linked based on a GUID rather than the name.
Some side effects that can appear confusing:
- The name of the groups will be different if you open the WSUS and the SCE console side-by-side
- You won’t be able to create a group with the same name as the original group – the error displayed is “group already exists”
- Hardware and Software reports will show the original group name and not the updated group name
Note"! The above explain the behavior for a group that you have created from scratch. If you create a group based on an existing MP’s (that exist in a sealed MP), this groups can not be renamed nor can it be deleted after you created/link it(except if you edit the MIcrosoft SystemCenter Essentials Default User MP)
I want to thank Richard R. from the SCE product team for helping me validating this behavior
Visio Add-in for Operations Manager 2007 R2" Beta released May 3, 2009
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Have you ever wanted to create your own diagram views? Now you can download the Visio Add-in and add real time data to any Vision object.
Read more about the Vision Add-in from the System Center Operations Manager team blog
Download the Vision Add-in from Microsoft Connect
Note that this only works for Opsmgr 2007 R2 so it will not work for SCE or Opsmgr RTM SP1
Are you a Vista or Windows Server 2008 user, SP2 is now available for download May 3, 2009
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New cool System Center products and features was showcased at MMS 2009 May 3, 2009
Posted by Björn Axéll in Press, SCCM, SCODM.comments closed
This week was an important week for everyone that is working with System Center Products. Last night I was looking at one of the keynotes (click to view “MMS Day 2 Keynote”) that Brad Anderson presented and during the keynote a couple of cool demos was shown. There were especially two of them that made me happy:
- I must admit that I have never been a big fan of SCCM but the SCCM vNext looks really cool. The new way you can “target” application will really make life easier for the user. Below you see a print screen of the product where you can configure how the application should be applied to “me” as a user depending on how and what I logon to. They also moved to the new “System Center Console” instead of the MMC:(To view this demo, go directly to 01:33:20)
- The second thing I wanted to write about is the new product System Center Online Desktop manager (SCODM). This looks like a “System Center Essentials” in the cloud product. In the first release it will be able to manage (To view this demo, go directly to 01:13:50)
- Update management (Windows Update)
- Host Protection (Forefront Client Protection)
- Remote Assistance
- Asset Management
- Desktop Monitoring
- Desktop Configuration
This product will be updated every 6 month and feature that were mention during the keynote was Software Deployment
The above print screen show you an overview of your hole environment as regards to updates, malware and policy setting
The above print screen show you an overview of the update status in your environment
The above print screen show you an overview of the malware status in your environment
Updated and new Management Packs April 30, 2009
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This month Microsoft released new and updated management packs:
Download from Microsoft – Windows Server 2008 Network Load Balancing for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6573.0)
Download from Microsoft – Message Queuing Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6587.0)
Download from Microsoft – Microsoft Windows Server Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6568.0)
Download from Microsoft – Windows Server 2008 Application Server Management Pack for System Center Opsmgr 2007 (Version 6.0.6587.0)
Download from Microsoft – Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6542.0)
Download from Microsoft – Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6542.0)
Download from Microsoft – Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (Version 6.0.6569.0)
Download from Microsoft – Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 (Version 6.0.6907.21)
UPDATE – Windows 7 RC1 Released (Now it is) April 18, 2009
Posted by Björn Axéll in Press, Windows.comments closed
Today Microsoft has remove the information, someone was a bit to fast to publish it on the partner site:-)
Quote from the partner site:
We are pleased to announce that Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is available. Windows 7 RC is the prerelease version of Windows 7. Since this is not the final release, your PC will gather and send information to Microsoft engineers to help them check the fixes and changes made based on testing of Windows 7 Beta. Test-drive Windows 7 RC today to see for yourself—and to show your colleagues and customers—how Windows 7 delivers improved management, security, reliability, and performance. Download Windows 7 RCPartners: If you have a subscription to MSDN or TechNet, you can download Windows 7 RC now. Otherwise, you can download Windows 7 RC starting May 5, 2009.
Apparently Windows 7 RC is not available yet. As of now (21:30 Swedish time) I’m still seeing the old beta version.
If you have an MSDN or Technet subscription you can now download Windows 7 RC
Exchange 14 = Exchange 2010 and is now available for public beta test April 15, 2009
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Today Microsoft released the first public version of Exchange 2010.
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RC is now available on Microsoft Connect March 27, 2009
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Microsoft has now announced the availability of the Ops Mgr 2007 R2 RC.
Apply for the beta program and start test, there is allot of new features and especially improved performance in the product.
Updated Management Pack for System Center Network Device Monitoring March 27, 2009
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This week Microsoft released an updated version of the System Center Network Device Monitoring Library Management Pack. Note that this MP is only for System Center Essentials 2007 (even that you can move it to SCOM with some extra hacks)
Updated Management Pack for Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista Operating System February 25, 2009
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In the old release of the Windows Client MP, the discovery didn’t really work for Windows Vista machines. This is now fixed in the updated version (6.0.6520.0)
