Today I saw a very good blogpost on the Ask the Directory Services Team blog. Check it out there:

Purging Old NT Security Protocols

This blogpost is about how to discover which computers and applications are using NTLM V1 and LM security, regardless of your operating system. Everyone knows that Kerberos is Microsoft’s preeminent security protocol and that NTLM is both inefficient and, in some iterations, not strong enough to avoid concerted attack. NTLM V2 using complex passwords stands up well to common hash cracking tools like Cain and Abel, Ophcrack, or John the Ripper. On the other hand, NTLM V1 is defeated far faster and LM is effectively no protection at all.

Sometimes I hear some confusion what the possibilities are in SharePoint Online for Office 365 in relation to Customization and Development. That’s the main subject in this article, to clarify what is possible in SharePoint Online if customization and development of SharePoint is one of the requirements while going to Office 365.

In SharePoint Online, developers can upload custom code to their SharePoint Online environment with the new Sandboxed Solution feature inherited from SharePoint 2010. And also the use of Silverlight and the client object model. Improvements in SharePoint Designer also provide the ability to customize SharePoint Online applications.
Note:
While SharePoint Online offers many opportunities to building customized solutions, the service does not support Full Trust Coded (FTC) solutions or what is referred to as farm-level solutions.

The following customization strategies are available to SharePoint Online developers:
•    Configuration by using the browser.

Customizations that you can perform by using the SharePoint Online user interface in your browser. For example, you can edit page layouts, add and customize the default Web Parts, add lightweight Microsoft Silverlight widgets to a page, or embed jQuery code in a Content Editor Web Part.
•    Customization by using SharePoint Designer.

Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 is a web and application design program you can use to design, build, and customize your websites within SharePoint Online. With SharePoint Designer 2010, you can create data-rich webpages, build powerful no-code workflow-enabled solutions, and design the appearance and behavior (look and feel) of your site. Customizations that you can perform in SharePoint Designer are generally declarative, and can also employ client-side scripting.
•    Developing SharePoint Online solutions that contain custom code.

To enable more technically complex solutions, SharePoint Online provides both server and client object models for developers. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 provides a range of specialized templates for creating sandboxed solutions that contain a variety of SharePoint items, such as site and list definitions, workflows, Web Parts, event receivers, and content types, to include in your SharePoint solutions.

For more information see:

SharePoint Online Developer’s Guide

I’m now working at a customer where I’m upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. I’m doing the Detach and Attach method. But I figured out a way without any downtime.

In this case we have a seperate SQL Server 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010 SP1 server.Our old enviroment consists of an SharePoint 2007 server with Service Pack 2 installed and also a seperate SQL 2005 SP3 server.This method can work in any enviroment size where SQL and SharePoint is seperated.

Below you see the high level steps:

•    Check if there are any unknown features on the SharePoint 2007 side with the following command:

1. Stsadm  -o preupgradecheck
2. To be able to run this command the SharePoint 2007 farm needs to have Service Pack 2
3. Remove any faulty features with the Featureadmin tool (be very careful with this powerful tool). Also fix other errors reported by stsadm -o preupgradecheck before upgrading
4. Install SharePoint 2010 on the new server and run the psconfig.Don’t configure anything yet when asked! Only instal configuration database.
5.  Backup the content database on the SharePoint 2007 side. Don’t choose the Restore Database in the SQL Management Studio, but choose Restore Files and Filegroups.
6. Restore the content database on the SharePoint 2010 database enviroment.
7. Mount the content database with the following on the SharePoint 2010 side:
8. Mount-SPContentDatabase –databasename <<databasename>> -databaseserver <<databaseserver>>
9. Let the command run and check in the new environment how the sites look and see if there are any errors after executing the Mount-SPContentDatabase command. Fix them. Testing and compare is very important in this step. This command automatically created an log-file for review.
10. Change DNS alias to new SharePoint 2010 servers
11. Upgrade finished. Decommission old SharePoint 2007 server!

In case you have a question please leave a comment on this post and I will reply as soon as possible.

 

 

I recently changed to job, and I’m now proud to work for Avanade(Microsoft Partner of the Year 2011). This week I was asked to install SharePoint and CRM 2011(Totally new for me). I was able to do that, and I didn’t knew it’s possible to integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM with SharePoint. Microsoft has created something for it called the Microsoft Dynamics CRM List Component for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This integration enabled document management capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. There are two aspects to SharePoint Server integration:

• Setting up SharePoint integration. A system administrator sets up a SharePoint Server environment. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM administrator (a user who has the SharePoint Site Collection Administrator role) selects the Microsoft Dynamics CRM entities for which to enable the document management feature, and specifies the target SharePoint Server. As part of specifying the target server, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM administrator specifies the SharePoint Server site collection or the SharePoint Server site URL by using the SharePointSite entity.
• Creating and managing SharePoint document location records. Microsoft Dynamics CRM users can create and manage SharePoint Server document location records after SharePoint Server integration is enabled. You can create and manage SharePoint Server document location records by using the SharePointDocumentLocation entity. Microsoft Dynamics CRM also allows for the automatic creation of folders on the server that is running SharePoint Server for entity records under certain conditions. However, automatic creation of folders cannot be done through the Microsoft Dynamics CRM SDK.

This enables an organization to store and manage documents in the context of a Microsoft Dynamics CRM record on a server that is running SharePoint, and leverage the SharePoint infrastructure to share, manage, and collaborate efficiently. Because the documents are stored on a server that is running SharePoint, non-Microsoft Dynamics CRM users can directly access the documents on the server, provided they have the appropriate privileges on the server that is running SharePoint Server to do so.

 

Downloads

Monitoring Pack for Active Directory

Monitoring Pack for Active Directory provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of your Active Directory deployment. It monitors events that various Active Directory components and subsystems place in the Application, System, and Service event logs. It also monitors the overall health of the Active Directory system and provides alerts for critical performance issues. This management pack is updated.

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/monitoring-pack-for-active-directory-12884902060

Windows Server Operating System Monitoring Management
Pack

The Windows Server Operating System management pack consists of the following five management packs: Microsoft Windows Server Library, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Discovery, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Monitoring, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows 2000 Server. The Microsoft Windows Server management packs monitor the performance, health, and availability of Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2003, 2003 R2 and Windows 2000 Server. This management pack is updated

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/windows-server-operating-system-monitoring-management-pack-12884901987

 

Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Data Warehouse Appliance

The System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Data Warehouse (MDW) Appliance provides capabilities to discover, monitor, and manage your SQL Server MDW appliances. The custom view enables near real-time diagnosis and resolution of detected issues. This management pack is updated

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/monitoring-pack-for-microsoft-data-warehouse-appliance-12884928228

New KB’s:

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: Error
message when you start the MOM 2005 Operator console on a computer that is
running MOM 2005 and Windows Server 2003: “Application has generated an
exception that cannot be handled”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895324/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: The Snmp.exe
process generates an access violation when the event is converted to an SNMP
trap in MOM 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912704/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: You notice
an increase in event and performance data latency after you upgrade the MOM
2005 Server OnePoint database to Microsoft SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913801/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: You receive
duplicate alerts after you click to select the “Suppress duplicate
alerts” check box and then commit configuration changes in Microsoft
Operations Manager 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918176/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: The MOM
service does not start and event 9014 is logged when you deploy a Microsoft
Operations Manager 2005 agent to a domain controller that is running Windows
Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919154/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: Microsoft
Operations Manager 2005 does not monitor log files that contain lines that have
more than 4,096 characters

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927796/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: Event ID
9014 and Event ID 9015 are logged, and MOMservice.exe stops unexpectedly after
you configure a Collect Specific Events (Collection) rule in Microsoft
Operations Manager 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930770/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: When many
alerts occur at the same time, Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator
version 2.1 does not send notifications in MOM 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933616/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: You receive
an error message when you try to deploy an agent update to a managed computer
in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934507/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: The MOM
service may crash in discovery in MOM 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936161/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: Some
Microsoft Operations Manager Operator Console alerts contain no information in
the Description field after you apply hotfix 930770 or hotfix 926681

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942736/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: The MOM
service may crash when you run the discovery process on many agent computers in
MOM 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949874/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Service Pack 1: When
you use System Center Reporting Manager (SCRM) 2006, you cannot create or
delete entries in the MOM 2005 SP1 OnePoint database

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912787/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Service Pack 1: After
you install version 2.0 of the .NET Framework on a server that is running
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 with SP1, you can no longer discover
computers in Active Directory

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913812/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Service Pack 1: Error
message after the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1 Operator console closes
unexpectedly: “Application has generated an exception that could not be
handled”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918601/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Service Pack 1: A
hotfix is available to let you create a Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
database on a computer that is running an x64-based version of Microsoft SQL
Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921278/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Service Pack 1: Error
message when you use the SetActionAccount.exe utility to update the action
account password or to change to a new action account in a MOM 2005 Service
Pack 1 environment: “Unable to set credentials. Verify the Management
Group name is corr…

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961046/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Service Pack 1: A
script that was embedded by an authenticated MOM 2005 user in an alert object’s
alert history field is executed unexpectedly on the MOM 2005 SP1 Web console

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969286/en-US

 

Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 Enterprise Edition: The
WMI service may unexpectedly close, stop responding, or restart when you try to
use the MOM 2000 WMI administrator provider continuously

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892484/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007: Windows-based
computers are not displayed in the Network Topology diagram view in System
Center Essentials 2007, and WSUS component parts fail on the Essentials 2007
agents after you deploy the agents

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936339/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007: The
installation of System Center Essentials 2007 fails during the Reporting part
of Setup and the following information is logged: “The specified domain
does not exist or cannot be contacted”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937831/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007: Description
of System Center Essentials 2007 post-release hotfix rollup

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943111/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1: System
Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1 cannot monitor network devices that
report an interface speed greater than 2,147,483,647 Gbps (2 GB per second)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960569/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010: How to use
diagnostic tracing in System Center Operations Manager 2007 and in System
Center Essentials

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942864/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: When
the Health Service (HealthService.exe) runs timed scripts in System Center
Operations Manager 2007, high memory usage may occur

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935896/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Error
message when you try to access a Web page view in the System Center Operations
Manager 2007 Web Console: “Requested value ‘UrlViewType’ was not
found”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935898/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: You
cannot install the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting feature in a
disjointed namespace environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936481/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: After
a System Center Operations Manager 2007 agent sends discovery data to a
management group, no rules are deployed for monitoring in later management
groups

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936838/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: A
notification subscription’s Alert Criteria options do not work as expected in
System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937470/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Some
report information does not appear in Japanese in the Japanese version of
System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938505/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: System
Center Operations Manager 2007 cannot find some network devices by using the
network device discovery process

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939364/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Some
SSL Monitoring monitors display an incorrect status or an incorrect name in
System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939585/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: The
System Center Operations Manager 2007 agent is unable to restart the health
service after its monitored thresholds are exceeded

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939799/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Management
servers that are running the release version of System Center Operations
Manager 2007 do not process the agent event data from an agent of System Center
Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941557/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: The
MonitoringHost.exe process on the System Center Operations Manager 2007 root
management server may consume more than 2 gigabytes of memory

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943706/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Some
data partition tables that exceed the data retention period are not groomed
from the Audit Collection Services database in Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949969/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: You
cannot install Operations Manager 2007 Reporting if the SQL Server Reporting
Services instance takes more than 60 seconds to start

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951148/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: System
Center Operations Manager 2007 runs scripts in the Rule Name field or in the
Description field

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951529/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: The
relative date picker returns wrong dates when you run a report in a month that
has less days than the previous month in System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952937/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2: Description
of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors update

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975774/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Some computer properties for a cluster node may not be collected by
the discovery process in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951380/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The Root Management Server (RMS) of System Center Operations
Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 or Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1 becomes unstable
or unusable if a management pack is imported

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951526/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Modifications that you try to make to a Web application that was
created before you upgrade Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 are
not saved

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951527/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The Custom Event Report does not list the GenericLog-type events in
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952857/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The Administrator Console exits when you try to use the “Set
Resolution State” option for an alert that is generated in System Center
Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953817/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Objects that are displayed in a performance view are not scoped to
the specified group when they are viewed in the Web Console of Operations
Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954090/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: An Audit Collection Service forwarder may be unable to retrieve the
distinguished name for the ObjectGUID in the collected events in System Center
Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954329/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: A custom event report does not display events that are generated by
the generic CSV text log collection rules when Parameter 1 to Parameter 20 is
included in the Report Field criteria in System Center Operations Manager 2007
Service Pack 1 (SP1)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954823/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The Monitoringhost.exe process may consume all the CPU resources when
a large amount of performance data is created by using a managed data source
module in System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954903/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The audit collection service (ACS) fails when the ACS is configured
for a grooming retention policy that is greater than 256 days in System Center
Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954948/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Web console hotfix package for System Center Operations Manager
2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955523/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The CcmExec.exe process crashes on a Windows 2000-based computer if
both a System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 agent and a System
Center Configuration Manager 2007 client are installed on this computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956172/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Alerts are issued from the MOM Active Directory Management Pack
after you install an Operations Manager 2007 SP1 agent over a MOM 2005 agent on
a domain controller that is running a 64-bit version of Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956184/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The SQL Server process may consume lots of CPU resources on the
server that hosts the Operations Manager 2007 database after you make
Operations Manager 2007 configuration changes

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956240/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The connection settings for connectors in tiered management groups
are configured incorrectly after the OpsMgr SDK Service restarts in a System
Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956423/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The e-mail notifications may contain garbled subject lines if you
enable the “Generate subject line with no encoding” option in System
Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956446/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: A Run As account that is configured for proxy authentication in a
Web application monitor is not used in System Center Operations Manager 2007
Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956689/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Hotfix for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 enables
monitoring support for IIS 7.0

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957123/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: You cannot change the alert resolution state of any alert in the
Active Alerts view in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957135/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 operations
console cannot display English product knowledge when you open the properties
dialog box of an alert: “No product knowledge was available for this
Alert”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957199/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Warning alerts and warning monitor state changes do not occur as
expected for a Web application that is created by using the Web application
template in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957511/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: When you try to view the Patch List property, the list of
Operations Manager agent hotfixes may be truncated on System Center Operations
Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 systems

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958253/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: You receive multiple “WMI Probe Module Failed Execution”
alerts from Windows 2000-based computers after you install System Center
Operations Manager 2007 SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958254/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Dependency monitors indicate an incorrect state on a System Center
Operations Manager 2007 SP1-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958490/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 SDK
service may stop unexpectedly, and you may receive an error message:
“Specified argument is out of the range of valid values”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959497/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Issues that are resolved by the Operations Manager Module rollup
update for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1: June 10, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959865/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: You cannot specify a management pack to store a new override of a
monitor or of a rule in the Operations console in System Center Operations
Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959867/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Charts in a performance report are incorrectly scaled, or a report
that contains multiple charts does not display the charts in the correct order
in System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960363/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Expected reports for installed management packs are not visible in
the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Operations Console Reporting node

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962967/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The Add Object Wizard displays only 500 objects even if more
objects exist in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963005/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The <Server>_PrimarySG_<number> security group is repopulated
every hour even though the group’s membership has not changed in System Center
Operations Manager 2007 SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967843/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Error message when you add an agent assignment rule in the System
Center Operations Manager 2007 if an Active Directory domain name begins with a
numeric digit: “XSD verification failed for management pack”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968082/en-US

 

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: The size of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack
1 Data Warehouse database may grow if many event collection rules exist within
management packs

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969130/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: Description of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1
Update

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971541/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service
Pack 1: A hotfix is available that fixes two issues with management packs
in System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974254/en-US

As promised last month, the news of the month of System Center Operations Manager.

News:

Operations Manager Management Pack Development Kit
Welcome to the Management Pack Development Kit for Operations Manager. The purpose of this development kit is to provide the management pack author with the information necessary to design and build a management pack intended for monitoring an application by using Operations Manager.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee533840.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mpauthor/archive/2011/09/21/new-module-documentation.aspx

Downloads

System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance

This Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Appliance provides capabilities to discover, monitor, and manage your SQL Server PDW appliances. The management pack simplifies the monitoring process for PDW.

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/system-center-monitoring-pack-for-microsoft-sql-server-2008-r2-parallel-data-warehouse-appliance-12884926406

KB Articles:
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Agent Health Tips and Fixes for System Center Operations Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2616936/en-US

I will be posting every month the news of the month of System Center Operations Manager.  See below for the news of September 2011. Try the latest beta version of System Center Operations Manager 2012!

Downloads

Cumulative Update 5 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is available

This article contains a complete description of all changes that are contained in Cumulative Update 5 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.

Cumulative Update 5 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 includes all previous cumulative updates for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and includes all cross-platform updates.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2495674

System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Azure Applications

The Windows Azure Monitoring Management Pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of applications that are running on Windows Azure.

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/system-center-monitoring-pack-for-windows-azure-applications-12884907699

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Management Packs

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Management Packs enable discovering, monitoring, and managing UNIX-based and Linux-based computers by using the same interface and tools that you use to manage your Windows-based computers. They provide both proactive and reactive monitoring of the UNIX and Linux operating systems. The management packs monitor components such as processes, resources, and server agents. The monitoring provided by the management packs includes availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of UNIX and Linux components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios. In addition to health monitoring capabilities, the management packs include reports, diagnostics, tasks, and views that enable near real-time diagnosis and resolution of detected issues. The management packs also enable the installation of the Cross Platform Audit Collection Services Management Packs.

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/system-center-operations-manager-2007-r2-cross-platform-management-packs-12884902935

 

New KB’s

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Event ID 4625 is logged every 5 minutes when using the Exchange 2010 Management Pack in System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2591305/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2: You are prompted for the latest version of the Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library management pack when you try to edit a new management pack in Operations Manager 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2590414/en-US

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Support for SQL 2005 SP4

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2591380/en-US

This is a blogpost about my experience of installing System Center Operations Manager 2012 in my test enviroment. All my machines are based on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1Enterprise Edition. I use Virtualbox as the hypervisor for this test.SQL 2008 R2 ENT edition with CU6 will be the base standard for all database and SQL reporting services.  (Note:  CU6 is not technically required, however it is strongly recommended to always apply the latest CU to SQL when deploying.)

 

Roles	Operating System	Configuration	Software
MS	Windows Server 2008 R2	Memory: 2GB Processor: 1 virtual processor	System Center Operations Manager 2012 (MS Role
SQL	Windows Server 2008 R2	Memory 2GB Processor: 1 virtual processor	SQL Server 2008 R2 (Database Engine Role)
Reporting	Windows Server 2008	Memory:2GB Processor: 1 virtual processor	SQL Server 2008R2 Reporting Role System Center Operations Manager 2012 Reporting Role

All machines are a member of the SCOM.local domain for this test. I wont describe how you need to install SQL Server 2008 R2, that should be knowledge you already have when you are following this article. Other prerequisites that are needed for the installation of System Center Operations Manager 2012 :

• .NET 4.0 Framework
• SQL Collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

See this PDF File how to install System Center Operations Manager 2012, from my experience.

Installation Procedure System Center Operations Manager 2012

Thanks to Helmer Zandbergen for reviewing this document for me!

This is a blogpost about my experience of installing System Center Operations Manager 2012 in my test enviroment. All my machines are based on Windows Server 2008 R2. I use Virtualbox as the hypervisor for this test.

Roles	Operating System	Configuration	Software
MS	Windows Server 2008 R2	Memory: 2GB Processor: 1 virtual processor	System Center Operations Manager 2012 (MS Role
SQL	Windows Server 2008 R2	Memory 2GB Processor: 1 virtual processor	SQL Server 2008 R2 (Database Engine Role)
Reporting	Windows Server 2008	Memory:2GB Processor: 1 virtual processor	SQL Server 2008R2 Reporting Role System Center Operations Manager 2012 Reporting Role

All machines are a member of the SCOM.local domain for this test. I wont describe how you need to install SQL Server 2008 R2, that should be knowledge you already have when you are following this article. Other prerequisites that you will need to install:

• .NET 4.0 Framework
• SQL Collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

See this PDF File how to install System Center Operations Manager 2012, from my experience.

I just saw a blogpost on the Nexus SC blog from the System Center Team of Microsoft. The Beta of System Center Operations Manager 2012 has gone live after a few days waiting for me. I’m so exicted to give it try and see all the new features. You can download the Beta here:

System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta

See my earlier post there for the new features of System Center Operations Manager 2012:

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012Vandaag kwam ik op de Nexus SC blog van het System Center Team of Microsoft tegen dat de Beta van System Center Operations Manager 2012 te downloaden na een paar dagen wachten voor mij. Ik kijk er naar uit om alle nieuwe features van System Center Operations Manager 2012 te zien.Je kunt de Beta hier downloaden:

System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta

Zie ook mijn eerdere post hier voor de nieuwe features en mogelijkheden binnen System Center Operations Manager 2012:

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012

 

I was working on an issue with our BI department where we had an issue connecting to the cubes:
When you selected Data and then From Other Sources and then From Analysis Server when you entered the FQDN of the SQL Analysis Server we got the following error: Function Request not Supported. In the screenshot below you will see how can connect from Excel to an SQL Server Analysis Server

I tested and found out that connecting to the cubes worked when connected using the IP address of the SQL Server Analysis Server. So then I created a case at Microsoft Support. I tested first with an Excel Engineer and got the same error when we created an UDL a did the same steps. Then my case got forwarded to the SQL Analysis Services team. We tested for an hour and I mailed a SQL Server Profiler trace to the Engineer who was working with me on the case. The next day I talked to the BI guys and they told when the modified the Integrated Security from SSPI to NTLM It seemed tow work.
From:
Provider= MSOLAP.4;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Data Source=SERVERNAME
To:
Provider= MSOLAP.4;Integrated Security=NTLM;Persist Security Info=False;Data Source=SERVERNAME

Our BI departement was connecting from an Windows Server 2008 SP2 Server using Excel to their cubes. I told that to the Engineer who was working on my case and a few hours later I got an Hotfix which seems to be included in Windows Server 2008 R2 but not in Windows Server 2008 SP2:
A Kerberos authentication fails together with the error code 0X80090302 or 0x8009030f on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista when the AES algorithm is used
Thanks to Microsoft Support for solving this issue with me.Recentelijk heb ik samen met onze BI (Business Intelligence) mensen gewerkt aan een issue dat als je verbindt naar een SQL 2008 Analysis Server om kubussen te laden, je de volgende fout krijgt:
Function Request not Supported

Zie onderstaand screenshot hoe je vanuit Excel 2010 naar een SQL Server Analysis Server met zijn kubussen kan verbinden.

Het vreemde eraan was dat het verbinden op IP adres wel werkte maar op FQDN niet. Toen besloten we een case aan te maken bij Microsoft Support.

Eerst kwam mijn case terecht bij Excel team, en samen met deze Engineer moest ik een UDL bestand aanmaken op de Citrix server waar Excel op staat geïnstalleerd en waar vandaan de BI mensen verbinden naar hun kubussen, met de UDL kreeg ik de zelfde fout.

Toen werd mijn case doorgezet naar het SQL Analysis Server team en na een uurtje met deze Engineer aan de lijn te hebben gezeten wist zij ook niet wat probleem was en vond ze het allemaal erg vreemd.

Een dag later sprak ik met de BI mensen bij ons en toen vertelde ze dat als in de UDL(Universal Data Link) de authenticatie veranderde van SSPI(Kerberos) naar NTLM, ze wel succesvol kon verbinden naar hun kubussen.
Van dit:
Provider= MSOLAP.4;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Data Source=SERVERNAME
Naar dit:
Provider= MSOLAP.4;Integrated Security=NTLM;Persist Security Info=False;Data Source=SERVERNAME

Dit gaf ik meteen door aan de Engineer die werkte aan mijn case, en een paar uur later kwam ze meteen een Hotfix.

Wat is er aan de hand?

Deze Hotfix zit wel in Windows Server 2008 R2 maar niet Windows Server 2008 SP2. De Citrix Server waarop Excel gepubliceerd was om te verbinden was inderdaad Windows Server 2008 SP2. Een paar uur later heb ik deze Hotfix uitgerold en toen werkte prima en was de fout  Function Request not Supported niet meer zichtbaar.

De Hotfix kun je hier downloaden:
A Kerberos authentication fails together with the error code 0X80090302 or 0x8009030f on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista when the AES algorithm is used