#Microsoft Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 – #SCVMM

This article discusses the installation instructions for Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft System Center 2012 and the issues that are fixed in the update rollup.
Follow the installation instructionsto download and then install the update packages for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager, System Center 2012 App Controller and System Center 2012 Operations Manager.

Issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 1

Virtual Machine Manager Server Update (KB2663959)

Issue 1

If a snapshot is merging into the parent virtual hard disk (VHD), and if the virtual machine is deleted, the VHD file is not deleted.

Issue 2

The Store-VM and Move-VM Windows PowerShell cmdlets ignore the -RunAsynchronouslyswitch.

Issue 3

When an IP address is used from an IP pool, cluster creation is unsuccessful, and you receive the following error message:

Error (25342)
Network configuration of hosts to be clustered requires at least one static IP address to create a cluster.

Issue 4

If a highly available virtual machine is running on a cluster node that fails, the virtual machine status changes to “Update Failed.” Additionally, the status is not updated until the cluster node is back online.

Issue 5

When you manually install the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Agent on a perimeter host, the user name and password are unexpectedly logged in the AgentSetup.log file on the host computer.

Issue 6

Successive virtual machine creations take longer if many virtual machines are created and deleted in a short time.

Issue 7

Agent upgrade fails during VMM upgrade if the Microsoft Virtual C++ 2008 Redistributable package is installed on the host computer. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Error (2916)
VMM is unable to complete the request. The connection to the agent servername.domainname.com was lost.
Unknown error (0×80338126)

Virtual Machine Manager Console Update (KB2663960)

Issue 1

Powershell.exe memory usage may increase when the Set-SCGuestInfo and Read-SCGuestInfo Windows PowerShell cmdlets are used to obtain or to set the virtual machine Key Value Pair (KVP) values.
NoteThis is a VMM Client and Server issue. To resolve this issue, you must install the Virtual Machine Manager Console Update (KB2663960) package and the Virtual Machine Manager Server Update (KB2663959) package.

Issue 2

The Virtual Machine Manager console stops responding when many virtual machines are sorted.

Issue 3

If System Center App Controller and the VMM Server are installed on separate servers, single sign-on does not work when App Controller is used.

Issue 4

If a host network adapter property setting is changed, the SubNet VLAN settings are changed even if the settings were not changed by the administrator.

Issue 5

An Internal virtual network is created as a private network if the virtual network name contains any of the following special characters:

/ ? ! @ # % ^ & * ( ) _ + } { ” : ] [ \

NoteThis is a VMM Client and Server issue. To resolve this issue, you must install the Virtual Machine Manager Console Update (KB2663960) package and the Virtual Machine Manager Server Update (KB2663959) package. If the VMM Self-Service Portal is installed, the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal Update (KB2663961) package must also be installed.

Issue 6

Performance issues may occur if the console is open for several days and if many jobs were created.

Issue 7

Concurrent attach and detach operations may take a long time to complete on a cluster that hosts many virtual machines.
NoteThis is a VMM Client and Server issue. To resolve this issue, you must install the Virtual Machine Manager Console Update (KB2663960) package and the Virtual Machine Manager Server Update (KB2663959) package. If the VMM Self-Service Portal is installed, the Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal Update (KB2663961) package must also be installed.

Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal Update (KB2663961)

Issues 5 and 7 in the “Virtual Machine Manager Console Update (KB2663960)” section are fixed in this update package.

Management Pack Update for Virtual Machine Manager

Issue 1
“VGS not installed” alerts are triggered for every virtual machine regardless of whether the virtual guest services are installed.
Issue 2
Operations Manager discovery fails with the following error if a host has virtual machines names that combined exceed 255 characters:

Operations Manager discovery failed with error: “Exception of type ‘Microsoft.VirtualManager.EnterpriseManagement.Common.DiscoveryDataInvalidRelationshipSourceExceptionOM10’ was thrown.”.

Issue 3
Virtual Machines in an Unsupported Cluster Configuration state are not reflected properly in Operations Manager.
Issue 4
The Cloud StorageUsageGB monitor fails to go into a warning or critical state when storage usage approaches the defined private cloud capacity.
Issue 5
The “Host has exceeded the supported maximum number of running VMs” alerts are triggered even though the host has not exceeded the maximum number of running virtual machines.
Issue 6
Management pack was not localized in all languages supported by Virtual Machine Manager.
Issue 7
The Total RAM for hosts in the Host Utilization report is reported incorrectly.
Issue 8
The Total Cost provided in the Chargeback Report is incorrect.

App Controller Update (KB2677596)

Issue 1

Users are prompted for credentials even though single sign-on functionality is enabled for App Controller. For more information about how to enable single sign-on for App Controller, go to the following Microsoft TechNet website:

Installing App Controller            (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg696046.aspx)

Issue 2

When the Repair option is run by using the Programs and Features item in Control Panel, the SQL database configuration for App Controller is removed.
Note Installing this update package for App Controller will restore the SQL database configuration. The administrator can also restore the SQL database configuration by following the steps in the “Removal Instructions for App Controller” section.

Operations Manager Update (KB2674695) – Windows monitoring

Issue 1

Environment crashes in Operations Manager because of RoleInstanceStatusProbe module in AzureMP.

Issue 2

When multiple (two or three) consoles are running on the same computer under the same user account, the consoles may crash.

Issue 3

You cannot start or stop tracing for Reporting and Web Console if they were installed to a stand-alone server that is running IIS.

Issue 4

Connected Group alert viewing is not working, but no error is given in console.

Issue 5

Task result – CompletedWithInfo not supported with the SDK2007 assemblies.

Issue 6

SeriesFactory and Microsoft.SystemCenter.Visualization.DatatoSeriesController have to be public to give the controls extensibility and reuse.

Issue 7

WebConsole is not FIPS compliant out of the box.

Issue 8

Network Dashboard should overlay Availability when displaying health state.

Issue 9

Dashboards: Group picker does not show all groups in large environment.

Issue 10

IIS Discovery: Prevent GetAdminSection from failing when framework version was detected incorrectly by IIS API.

Issue 11

Performance Counters are not displayed in the Application list view of AppDiagnostics.

Issue 12

Console crashes when state view with self-contained object class is opened.

Issue 13

PerformanceWidget displays stale “last value” in the legend because of core data access DataModel.

Issue 14

Availability Report and “Computer Not Reachable” Monitor display incorrect data.

Issue 15

Agent install fails on Win8 Core because of dependency on the .NET Framework 2.0.

Issue 16

Web Services Availability Monitoring Wizard – Console crashes if the wizard finishes before a test has finished.

Issue 17

Several Windows PowerShell changes are needed:

• Changed License parameter in Get-SCOMAccessLicense to ShowLicense
• Changed SCOMConnectorForTier cmdlets to SCOMTierConnector
• Some formatting changes

Operations Manager Update (KB2674695) – Unix and Linux monitoring

Issue 1

Schannel error events are logged to the System log on Operations Manager Management servers and on gateways that manage UNIX/Linux agents.

Issue 2

On HP-UX, Operations Manager cannot discover and monitor a logical volume composed of more than 127 physical volumes.

Issue 3

Upgrade of UNIX and Linux agents fails when using Run As credentials in the Agent Upgrade Wizard or Update-SCXAgent Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

Operations Manager Update (KB2674695) – New feature

Update Rollup1 for Operations Manager adds support for Oracle Solaris 11 (x86 and SPARC).

How to obtain and install Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012

The update packages for Virtual Machine Manager and App Controller are available from Microsoft Update. To download the management pack update for VMM, go to the following Microsoft Download Center website:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29679            (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29679)

To download the update packages for Operations Manager, go to the following Microsoft Download Center website:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c593536c-94f3-4c71-b963-5ab3b7fc05e1            (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c593536c-94f3-4c71-b963-5ab3b7fc05e1)

• To obtain and install the update packages from Microsoft Update, follow these steps on a system that has a Virtual Machine Manager or App Controller component installed:
  1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
  2. In Control Panel, double-click Windows Update.
  3. In the Windows Update window, click Check Online for updates from Microsoft Update.
  4. Click the important updates are available hyperlink.
  5. Select Update Rollup 1, and then click OK.
  6. Click Install updates to install the update package.

  Note The VMM agent on the managed computers has to be updated after the Virtual Machine Manager Server Update (KB2663959) is installed.
  To update the VMM agent on the managed computers, follow these steps:

  1. Open the VMM Console.
  2. Click Fabric, and then select Servers.
  3. Under Managed Computers, select the servers, and then click Update Agent.

  Note Before you install the update package for App Controller, make sure that you review the “Installation instructions for App Controller” section.
  ImportantThe update package for App Controller shows in Microsoft Update only after the update package for Virtual Machine Manager Console Update (KB2663960) is installed. To install this update package and the update package for App Controller, follow these steps on the App Controller server:

  1. In the Windows Update window, click Check Online for updates from Microsoft Update.
  2. Select Virtual Machine Manager Console Update (KB2663960), and then install the update package.
  3. Restart the App Controller server.
  4. Open Windows Update again.
  5. In the Windows Update window, click Check Online for updates from Microsoft Update.
  6. Select App Controller Update (KB2677596) , and then install the update package.
• To manually download the update packages from Microsoft Update Catalog, go to the following Microsoft websites:
  Virtual Machine Manager Server Update (KB2663959)
  http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2663959            (http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2663959)

  Virtual Machine Manager Console Update (KB2663960)

  http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2663960            (http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2663960)

  Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal Update (KB2663961)

  http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2663961            (http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2663961)

  App Controller Update (KB2677596)

  http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2677596            (http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2677596)

  To manually install the update packages, run the following command from an elevated command prompt:

  msiexec.exe /update PackageName

  For example, to install the Virtual Machine Manager Server Update (KB2663959), run the following command:

  msiexec.exe /update KB2663959_vmmServer_amd64.msp

Installation and removal instructions

Installation instructions for App Controller

To install Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft System Center 2012 App Controller, follow these steps:

1. On the App Controller server, install the update package for Virtual Machine Manager Console (KB2663960).
   Note The update package for App Controller will not be installed if KB2663960 is not installed.
2. Re-import the library certificates for each VMM server. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. Log on to App Controller as an administrator.
   2. Expand Settings, and then click Connections.
   3. For each VMM server, select the VMM server, and then click Import Certificates.

   Notes

   • You can re-import the VMM library certificates before or after you install the update package for App Controller.
   • Until the library certificates are re-imported, App Controller cannot copy files into the VMM library.
3. Install the update package for Microsoft System Center 2012 App Controller (KB2677596).

Here you can see the complete Microsoft support Description of Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012

Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – App Controller #sysctr #Powershell #Cloud

Here you can download the Technical documentation for System Center 2012 – App Controller.

System Center 2012 - App Controller is a web-based management solution that lets you manage multiple public and private clouds in your organization and deploy services to them through a unified console. After deploying App Controller, you will be able to:

• Connect to and manage Windows Azure subscriptions and private clouds on System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) servers.
• Deploy and manage services and virtual machines across multiple public and private clouds.
• Manage and share file resources, service templates and virtual machine templates.
• Delegate role-based access to users for the management of services and resources on public and private clouds.

#Microsoft System Center 2012 Technical Documentation Library #sysctr #ITPRO

Microsoft Technet Library for System Center 2012

App Controller App Controller provides a unified console that helps you manage public clouds and private clouds, as well as cloud-based virtual machines and services.	Configuration Manager Configuration Manager provides a comprehensive solution for change and configuration management for the Microsoft platform. It allows you to deploy operating systems, software applications, and software updates; and to monitor and remediate computers for compliance settings. With Configuration Manager, you can also monitor hardware and software inventory, and remotely administer computers.
Data Protection Manager Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a backup and recovery solution for Microsoft workloads. DPM provides out-of-the-box protection for Files and Folders, Exchange Server, SQL Server, Virtual Machine Manager, SharePoint, Hyper-V, and client computers. For large-scale deployments, DPM also allows you to monitor your backups through a central console or remotely.	Endpoint Protection Endpoint Protection provides an antimalware and security solution for the Microsoft platform.
Operations Manager Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.	Orchestrator Orchestrator provides orchestration, integration, and automation of IT processes through the creation of runbooks, enabling you to define and standardize best practices and improve operational efficiency.
Service Manager Service Manager provides an integrated platform for automating and adapting your organization’s IT service management best practices, such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). It provides built-in processes for incident and problem resolution, change control, and asset lifecycle management.	Virtual Machine Manager Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is a management solution for the virtualized datacenter, enabling you to configure and manage your virtualization host, networking, and storage resources in order to create and deploy virtual machines and services to private clouds that you have created.
Unified Installer The Unified Installer is a tool that enables a single user-interface experience for the installation of seven System Center 2012 components. The Unified Installer provides a means of distributed installation from a central point using the existing Setup program of each component.

System Center Packs

• Operations Manager Management Pack Guides
• Authoring in Operations Manager 2007 R2
• System Center Orchestrator 2012 Integration Packs
• System Center Cloud Services Process Pack

Previous System Center Products

• System Center Configuration Manager 2007
• System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
• System Center Essentials 2010
• Opalis Integration Server 6.3
• System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
• System Center Service Manager 2010 SP1
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

Related Sites

• IT Training and Certification Resources
• System Center Downloads
• System Center Troubleshooting and Support
• System Center Community
• System Center TechCenter Home

#Microsoft System Center 2012 Unified Installer #SC2012

System Center 2012 Unified Installer is a utility designed to perform new, clean installations of System Center 2012 for testing and evaluation purposes only. If you want to upgrade from an existing System Center installation or choose set up options such as high availability or multi-server component installs, please refer instead to the System Center 2012 component installation guides located on the Microsoft Private Cloud Evaluation Resource Page.
User’s Guide >>

Before you begin with the Unified installer, you have to extract the installation files of the products. In this example I did that for Orchestrator 2012.

Download Microsoft Private Cloud Evaluation Software here

That was easy to use, Cheers!

System Center 2012 capabilities enabling you to deliver IT as Service

Download the Microsoft Privat Cloud Whitepaper here

#Microsoft Major announcements System Center 2012

Today during the “Private Cloud Day” live webcast event, Microsoft announced major change in how we think of and purchase the System Center suite. Summary.. it’s no longer a separate set of products, but it is just one product: System Center 2012.  Ready to try it?  http://aka.ms/syscntr

In a nutshell: System Center is now just one product, that comes in two editions, with many components. And the full-set of components come in the two product editions.

System Center 2012 Release Candidate plus optional Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 download Get started Now

Online Help for Microsoft System Center App Controler 2012

Here you can find information about System Center App Controler 2012 :

• Setting up App Controler
• Deploying Services and Virtual Machines
• Using the App Controler CMDLets ( Powershell)
• Setting up Private and Public Clouds
• Managing Services and Virtual Machines

Go to the Microsoft Online Help site to get this information :

http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/appcontroller/gg696039.aspx

First steps to Install Microsoft System Center App Controler 2012

Here you can see the Step by Step  install of System Center App Controler 2012 :

Step 1. First install .NET Framework 4.

Step 2. Setup App Controler 2012 is started.

Step 3. installing missing software

Step 4. installation location

Step 5.  Configure Services and Ports

Step 6. Configuration website of App Controler 2012.

Step 7. Configure the DataBase

Step 8. Configuration and Update.

Step 9. Confirm the configuration Settings.

Step 10. Installing the components.

Step 11. Setup Completed Successfully.

Step 12. logging in to System Center App Controler.

Download System Center App Controler 2012 here :

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

Microsoft System Center App Controller 2012 Beta download available

 

Download System Center App Controler 2012 Beta here :

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

Overview

Download additional System Center 2012 products with our single download experience.

System Center App Controller 2012 beta provides a common self-service experience across private and public clouds that can help you:

• Easily configure, deploy, and manage services through a highly intuitive service-centric interface, while using a library of standard templates
• Create, manage, and move services using a web-based interface that presents a customized view of resources based on your role in the organization
• View private and public cloud services in a single view and get granular control of application components at each layer

Benefits

System Center App Controller 2012 delivers the following benefits:

Self-service Application Management Across Private and Public Clouds
Using System Center App Controller 2012, datacenter administrators can flexibly delegate a customized, role-based view of your private cloud services (deployed on Virtual Machine Manager based infrastructure) and Windows Azure services, thus allowing you to easily manage them yourself. App Controller 2012 also enables you to move applications and components fluidly within public and private cloud environments.

Easy Deployment and Operations for Your Application Services Through a Highly Intuitive Service-centric Interface
App Controller 2012 enables you to design, build, configure, and deploy services using a library of delegated templates with predefined configuration values. Your datacenter administrators can assign to you the required authority to deploy applications, confident in the knowledge that these predefined service templates will be compliant with company IT standards and policies.

Visibility and Control with Unified Console Across Private and Public Cloud Resources and Applications
App Controller 2012 offers consolidated views of your private and public cloud services, including the virtual machines that represent those services. It also empowers you with granular control and visibility into application components, along with the ability to track on-going jobs and maintain a detailed history of changes.

 

Why is Microsoft System Center integration important ?

This Topic explains why Microsoft System Center products becomes more important then ever before.

The layers are further defined as follows:

• Service Delivery Layer: Represents those Service Management activities that require input and interaction with the business and service owner. The components are not only responsible for that interaction, but also the translation of business requirement into technology and operational capabilities. This layer represents the business perspective on the basis of IT.
• Software Layer: Provides the applications and software that support a business activity (for example, CRM). The Software Layer consumes Virtual Machines (VM) services from the Infrastructure Layer and may consume application services from the Platform Layer.
• Platform Layer: Provides a set of platform-level (above operating system(OS) level) building blocks which can be consumed by the Software Layer. It consumes hypervisor services from the Infrastructure Layer and is managed by the Management Layer.
• InfrastructureLayer: Provides resilient hypervisor services to the Platform Layer and is managed by the Management Layer. The Infrastructure, Platform, and Software Layers represent the enabling technology perspective within IT.
• Operations Layer: Represents Service Management and operational processes carried out by IT operations and support staff.
• Management Layer: Provides management services to the Infrastructure, Platform, and Software Layers. It is comprised of the suite of management tools necessary to support IT Service and Operations Layer and implements the operational processes. The Management Layer provides a baseline set of capabilities to the Infrastructure Layer and an incremental set to the Platform Layer and the Software Layer. The Operations and Management Layers represent the operational perspective within IT.

A key tenet of the Reference Architecture is that it helps IT strategists and solution architects to make good design decisions. The guidance will only cater to the difference between the best practices of traditional IT and dynamic IT. For example, guidance on designing the directory services or change management processes already exists, so we will not duplicate that but will instead highlight what is different or new for a Private Cloud.

Examples of the principles are as follows:

• Use virtualization to abstract applications from hardware.
• Focus on Mean-Time-to-Restore-Service instead of avoiding hardware failure.
• Have a meaningful understanding of infrastructure’s health state.
• Automate “detect and respond” processes.
• Homogenize your hardware infrastructure to reduce complexity.
• Encourage desired consumer behavior.

When you keep this model in mind, you can see what this means for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager for example :

 

With Microsoft Product code “Concero” you get a hybrid Cloud Managementtool wich brings privat and public Cloud togehter in one Console.
More Microsoft System Center products becomes integraded.
For example, in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 you can deploy your virtual application as a Service wich is sequenced by Microsoft APP-V 4.6

With this System Center 2012 Cycle you are ready for the future with Cloud technology.