Windows Server 2012 on mva

 

Windows Server 2012 brings the experience from building and operating public clouds to delivering the most dynamic, available, and cost-effective server platform for the private cloud. It offers businesses and hosting providers a scalable, dynamic, and multitenant-aware cloud infrastructure that securely connects across premises and allows IT to respond to business needs faster and more efficiently.
After completing the following courses on Windows Server 2012, you will have an understanding of Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing, and how Windows Server 2012 can provide the foundation for your datacenter and private cloud. These courses will cover how Windows Server 2012 delivers value in four key ways including how it takes you beyond virtualization, delivers the power of many servers, opens the door to every app on any cloud, and enables the modern workstyle.
Courses:

• Windows Server 2012: First Look

Additional Resources:

• Download the Windows Server 2012 Evaluation
• Continue your Windows Server Training:
  • Microsoft Certification: Windows Server
  • Windows Server 2012 Evaluation Guide
  • Microsoft Learning Jump Start
• Visit our Windows Server web properties:
  • Windows Server 2012 on TechNet
  • Windows Server 2012 on Microsoft.com
  • What’s New with Microsoft Server & Cloud Platform
• Stay up to date with the latest information:
  • Microsoft Server & Cloud Platform Blog
  • Microsoft Windows Server Blog
  • Find us on Twitter and Facebook
• Check out related MVA Tracks:
  • Private Cloud
  • System Center 2012
  • Windows Server 2008 R2

Experience Days Content

Best of MMS & Experience Windows Server 2012

Dear ARNE PELEMAN,
Thank you for attending the Best of MMS and Experience Windows Server 2012 on June 7^th
We hope you had an excellent time!

To make sure you get the most out of the sessions, we’ve published the videos and the presentations.

Don’t forget to also download:

Microsoft Private Cloud Evaluation Software

Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC)

Looking forward to meeting you again soon!

Your TechNet Team

@technetbelux
microsoft.be/technet

MMS2012 Keynote 1

This morning Anderson delivered the opening keynote to nearly 5,000 IT professionals, highlighting how customers around the world are already using System Center 2012, available today for evaluation and purchase.

A replay of his keynote is available here.

News highlights include:

• System Center 2012 is generally available now for evaluation and purchase.
• Windows Server “8” has been officially named Windows Server 2012. The new “cloud optimized OS,” due out later this year, will make the Microsoft private cloud even more powerful.
  Windows Server 2012 will be available later this year.
• New Microsoft Certification Program for the Cloud

Until January 31, 2013, Exam 70-659 may be taken in place of 70-247 to count towards the Private Cloud certification.

More to come.

Kind Regards

Arne Peleman

Tracking MMS Tweets on the web

If you have access to the web and want to follow the MMS twitter army.

Here’s direct links to a couple special Hashtags:

MMS 2011: http://www.hashtags.org/mms2012
MMSFUN: http://www.hashtags.org/mmsfun

Kind Regards,

 

Arne Peleman

System Center 2012 RC Released

Today Microsoft announced the Release of System Center 2012.

Please go watch the recording of the web cast to learn more!

You can Download all evaluation software.

With System Center 2012 RC versions available Microsoft has also implemented some licensing changes.

Here you can download the System Center 2012 licensing FAQ
More licensing info

I will point out some most important changes for you.

Currently the various System Center products (SCCM, SCOM, SCSM, DPM, …) can be purchased individually or as bundles.

This is what changes with system center 2012

Server Management Licensing

With System Center 2012 there will be 2 Flavors.

• Standard: For lightly or non-virtualized private cloud workloads
• Datacenter: Maximizes cloud capacity with unlimited Operating System Environments (OSEs) for high density private clouds

System Center 2012 server management licensing maximizes your private cloud value while simplifying purchasing.

• License required only for endpoints being managed. No additional licenses needed for management servers or SQL Server technology
• Consistent licensing model across editions. Processor based license, covering up to two processors targeted at most common hardware configuration
• Same capabilities across editions differentiated by virtualization rights. All server management licenses include the same components and the ability to manage any private cloud workload

Client Management Licensing

System Center 2012 client management licensing provides simple, cost-effective options to manage and protect client systems. Client management licenses are available in three offers:

• System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is available on a per-user or per-OSE basis as well as in the Core CAL and Enterprise CAL suites.

• System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection: System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (the next version of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010) is available as a per-user or per-device subscription as well as in the Core CAL and Enterprise CAL suites. The subscription includes all antimalware updates and product upgrades during the subscription period.

• System Center Client Management Suite: The System Center 2012 Client Management Suite is available on a per-user or per-OSE basis as well as in the Enterprise CAL suite. It is composed of Data Protection Manager, Operations Manager, Service Manager, and Orchestrator.

Core CAL and Enterprise CAL Suites will continue to be the most cost effective way to purchase client management products.

In my opinion a good move from Microsoft. You get an entire suite for the price of a single product.

Kind Regards

My Top 10 sessions TechDays 2012

Microsoft Techdays 2012 Belgium: 14-15-16 february 2012

My Top 10 sessions for Techdays 2012

1. Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012
2. Configuring and Deploying a Private Cloud with System Center 2012
3. Windows 8 Hyper-V: Scalability
4. Windows 8 Hyper-V: Availability
5. Windows 8 Disk Dedupe
6. Private Cloud Day Session 1- Building your Private Cloud Infrastructure
7. Private Cloud Day Session 2- Creating & Configure your Private Cloud
8. Private Cloud Day Session 3- Monitor & Operate your Private Cloud
9. Private Cloud Day Session 4- Automating & Delivering Services in your Private
10. Private Cloud Day Session 5- A Solution for Private Cloud Security

Hope to see you on the TechDays.

Kind Regards

Setup SC App controller

Intro

Since a few days Microsoft released System Center App Controller formerly known as project code name Concero.

Help: http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/appcontroller/gg696060.aspx

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27843

All 2012 products http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/trial.aspx

Setup

Configure the Service Account / Port to be used and hit next.

Configure Website.
Define the Ip adress and certificate app controller needs to listen on.

Because I do not have a certificate I will be using for this test a self-signed certificate.

Which database server will App-controller use?

Finally we help Microsoft to make everything better by collecting data from my systems.

Check the settings and hit install

The setup shows you a screen with all steps it will go trough.

Here are some screenshots from what you get if you connect App Controller to a VMM 2012 host.

Login screen

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New Technet Free Labs

Windows Azure:

Introduction to Windows Azure
Deploying Applications in Windows Azure
Exploring Windows Azure Storage

Windows Deployment:

Advanced Deployment Scenarios Using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010
Deploying the Core Optimized Desktop with MDT 2010 and SCCM
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization 2.0 Overview
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack: Microsoft Application Virtualization, Configuring Read-Only Shared Cache for VDI and RDS

System Center:

System Center Orchestrator Extensibility
First Look at Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012
Application Monitoring in OpsMgr 201
Monitoring key Microsoft workloads (Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and Windows Server) with OpsMgr 2012
Network Monitoring in OpsMgr 2012
Diagnose the Application Errors and Performance Issues with AVIcode
Getting Started with System Center Orchestrator
Getting Started with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
SCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 Business Unit/Infrastructure Requests/Approvals and VM Provisioning

Security:

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) with Office 365
DirectAccess and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) SP1: Better Together

Scripting:

Advanced Windows PowerShell Scripting

Following labs are still available.

SQL Server
Visualizing Data with Maps in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
Install a clustered instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Cluster
SharePoint and Office
SharePoint2010 IT Pro Overview
Upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007to SharePoint Server 2010
Lap around Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management

Infrastructure assessment for Office 2010 migration planning with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit
Virtualizing Microsoft Office 2010 with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V)

Windows 7 deployment
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack: Application Virtualization, Sequencing Lab
Streamline planning for Windows 7deployment with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning(MAP) Toolkit
Getting Started with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010
Zero Touch Installation Using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
Windows 7: Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6

Windows Server 2008 R2
What’s New in Active Directory (V3.0)
Windows Server 2008 R2: Implementing BranchCache
Implementing Centralized Publishing using Remote Desktop Services (V3.0)
Windows Server 2008 R2: Implementing DirectAccess

System Center
Introduction to Opalis
Monitoring Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

The labs can be found on http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-be/gg636841 or http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-be/gg636841

Troubleshooting agent states in SCOM and System Center Essentials

Yesterday Microsoft announced kb2288515 about Agent states in Operations Manager and System Center Essentials

I believe this is a very important kb which must be in the kb library of every SCOM admin.

Summary:

An agent, management server or gateway can have one of the following states:

Healthy – green check mark
The agent/management server is running normally.

Critical – red check mark
There is a problem on the agent/management server.

Unknown – gray agent. The check mark and agent name are grayed out.
The health service watcher on the root management server (RMS) that is watching the health service on the monitored computer is not receiving heartbeats from the agent anymore. It had been receiving them previously (and it was reported as healthy), but now it is not. This also means that the management servers are no longer receiving any information from the agent at all.
The computer running the agent might be down, or there might be connectivity issues. You can find more information on the Health Service Watcher view.

Unknown – green circle with no check mark
The status of the discovered item is unknown. There is no monitor available for this specific discovered item.

Resolutions can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2288515

 

Kind Regards,

 

Arne Peleman