Monthly Archives: March 2013

How to install the HP Proliant SCVMM 2012 Integration Kit – Part 1

 In this blog post I am going to cover the install of the HP Proliant Virtual Machine Manager integration Kit, I will follow up with a second post that will cover how to update you WinPE images. You can find … Continue reading

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How to Update the Category Field for a Custom Change Request Template

In my change request solution we have created a few new templates for Change Request. Unless I miss something it doesn’t seem that this a GUI interface that allows you to update the Category filed in the template or once … Continue reading

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SCCM 2012 SP1 CU1 Agent Version Number

The new agent version number for the SP1 Cumulative Update 1 is 5.00.7804.1202. The here is the query used to find machines with the new agent installed. select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE on SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_STATE.Version … Continue reading

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Cloud Services Process Pack Requirements

When installing the Cloud Services Process Pack SP1 version, I ran into a few issues that are worth noting. On the Orchestrator Server If you don’t have an OrchestratorUsersGroup on the local machine because you selected a domain account during … Continue reading

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How to Monitor SCOM Services with Orchestrator

In my lab I have an issue where SQL doesn’t always start when my VM is rebooted this causes the SCOM services not to start up as well, in our production environment we every once in a while will have … Continue reading

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SCCM Client Certificate Removal

While troubleshooting some inactive SCCM clients I found that they had bad SMS Certs. Symptoms of this were found in the locationServices.log Failed to verify Certificate with error 0x80070057 was the error that pointed me to take a look at … Continue reading

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SCOM 2012 SP1 Web Console Prerequisites Powershell

If you are installing SCOM for the first time on a Windows 2012 Server here is the Powershell to install all of the IIS prerequisites for the Web console Before running this script make sure you have a GPO in … Continue reading

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SCOM Monitoring SharePoint Server that host SCSM Self Service Portal

If you try to install the SCOM agent on a SharePoint server that already has the SCSM self-service portal installed, the install of the SCOM agent will fail. To resolve this the only option is to uninstall the SCSM self-service … Continue reading

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VMM 2012 HP EVA SMI-S Configuration

In this blog post I am going to provide a step by step how to add a HP EVA as an array in VMM 2012. Start by opening Fabric then add resources -> Storage Devices Select Add a storage device … Continue reading

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HP EVA and Cluster Shared Volumes

  Today I figured out an issue that has been holding up moving forward with my deployment of Hyper V. I didn’t find much on the web when I first ran into this issue so I hope this helps someone … Continue reading

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