August 2006 - Posts
I read the Product Overview and Managed Services Overview of SCE 2007. I feel that SCE 2007 is an EXCELLENT product for Service Providers!
With System Center Operation Manager 2007, They become a total remote monitoring, managing and patching solution for Midsized Businesses.
Concept:
- Remote Management without VPN.
- SCOM 2007 located at Service Provider, SCE 2007 located at customer site.
- Operators at Service Provider are able to monitor the customer's system health, alerts, View the S/W and H/W Inventory, Approve the Patches for Deployment, Troubleshooting REMOTELY!
- It provides reports for "Time spent working on problems", "Top problems and trends", "Capacity Planning" "Availability". It also provides report customization!
- Software Distribution for MSI and non-MSI applications, drivers, Microsoft and non-Microsoft QFEs
How it works:
- The service provider installs Operations Manager 2007 and WSUS 3.0 at their premises. The service provider installs the Service Provider Management Pack which provides customer centric views, tasks and reports.
- SCE 2007 is installed at the customer site and configured to communicate securely over the internet with Operations Manager 2007 at the service provider site.
- The service provider site regularly synchronizes with Microsoft Update (MU) and receives update content and metadata.
- Customer devices heartbeat with the SCE 2007 server at each customer site and each SCE 2007 server aggregates customer data and communicates with Operations Manager 2007 at the service provider site. The service provider monitors and performs remote tasks over the internet using the Operations Manager 2007 console or opens a remote SCE 2007 console over the internet to a specific customer site to manage it.
I tested to install MOM SLA Scorecard for Exchange this week.
And i want to share some tips and tricks here.
After the installation of MOM Reporting, Run the DTS Job Manually to transfer the data of OnePoint database to the Report database first, Wait about 5-20 mins.
When the DTS job completed successfully, Install MOM SLA Scorecard for Exchange, and wait about 5-20 mins for transfer the data from System Center Data Warehouse to SLA Staging Database.
Finally, run the ProcessSLAJob manully.
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager is an enterprise management application for the virtualized data center that enables increased physical server utilization, centralized management of virtual infrastructure and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the administrator and end users.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager has one goal - Make Windows the best platform for virtualization.
You can logon to Connect.microsoft.com and download it.
Microsoft released some great sizing tools for MOM and SMS, You can use them to plan the Hardware Capacity for each of the MOM and SMS component.
MOM 2005 Sizer
The MOM 2005 Sizer provides recommendations for MOM server configurations based on modeled workloads.
SMS 2003 Capacity Planner
A planning tool that helps consultants, SMS administrators, and IT professionals perform scenario analysis on their existing and proposed SMS 2003 hierarchy
System Center Capacity Planner
Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2006 helps size and plan deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. It provides you with the tools and guidance to deploy efficiently, while planning for the future by allowing for "what-if" analyses.