Some time it can happen, that your System Center Service Manager Console is not working like expected. For example Changes are not visualized in the Console If you open an Element, the new Window is very small Console won’t open some other Problems So, there are several ways to fix this Problems, please take a […]
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Lately, we had a Requirement, at one of our Customers, to alert someone, if a Runbook is longer running than 30 minutes. There is a way to write an Event Log if a Runbook is running longer than XX Minutes, but this has to be configured for each single Runbook, so that wasn’t a good
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I have two speaking slot coming in May 2018. One at CDC Germany and one at the Base IT Infrastructure Days.
Let’s start with the first one.
CDC Germany – third year in a row, I am selected by Carsten to speak at CDC Germany, But this will be the first time I am not talking about SCDPM, I wanted to try something new. So I asked Carsten if someone else will speak about SCDPM, and he found one, Charbel Nemnom. So I am having the Chance to talk about a topic I worked mainly in the last 3 years with, and was having a lot of cool projects. The Title will be “The rising Phoenix – Service Management and Automation with System Center“. But enough said, come to Hanau on the 15th of Mai 2018 and listen my slot, and of course, there are a lot more create speakers there. The Slot will be in german.
Base IT Infrastructure Days – One day after CDC, on May 16th, 2018, I will attend the Base IT Infrastructure Days, so that’s the reason I have to leave early from CDC. I will talk more about Azure, so Azure Backup, OMS Log Analytics, Service Maps and so on. More Details will follow.
So hope to see you in Hanau or Ansfelden in May.
Michael Seidl aka Techguy
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Hi, As you may know, I have written the actual System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook. Now PacktPub is providing me 10 free, printed copies, that’s your chance. Enter Your Name and Mail Address as a Comment below this Article, the first 10 will get a free Copy. After that, PacktPub will contact you for the
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Hi all, I am feeling really proud, cause my first book has been published a few days ago.
A few months ago, the guys from PacktPublishing asked me to write the System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook. It took not too long to make a decision and this was positive.
So I have decided not only to write an update, I have done a complete makeover of this book.
I have added a lot of new Recipes and have added a lot of my experience from the past 6 years. In the End, we have a complete new book, so go ahead and get your copy.
Don’t forget to write a Review on Amazon.
Thanks
Michael Seidl aka Techguy
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This is is just a short Post about my Presentation at CDC Germany this year. See “10 Gründe um Data Protection Manager 2016 zu nutzen” in German Language.
And to make sure, this was an awesome Event organized by Carsten Rachfahl, hopefully I am allowed to speak next year 
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System Center Data Protection Manager have come a long way, and has gotten some cool new features in the last few years.
Cloud Backup, VMware Support, best Backup Solution for Microsoft Products, support for all the new Server 2016 Features like Storage Spaces Direct, RCT, Virtual TPM, Backup Mixed Mode Cluster and many more.
System Center Data Protection Manager has been always the first choice for our Customers, to provide a perfect Backup Solution of their Microsoft workload, fully integrated in their Microsoft Datacenter and the possibility to store the long term Backup to the Cloud.
So, SCDPM 2016 has been released in Q4 2016 and we got a huge new Feature to store our Backup files called Modern Backup Storage.
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System Center Orchestrator should be the first Product to upgrade to 2016, so we also will start with SCO.
The Upgrade is straight forward and an easy one, but we have some pre-checks to make sure everything runs smooth.
First we will make a small Health Check to make sure SCO is doing fine, afterwards we proceed with our Backups followed by uninstall 2012 R2 and Installing 2016.
Lets go.
We normally use the “Orchestrator Health Checker” to get a quick overview of our environment. You an download the small Tool here: http://scorch.codeplex.com/releases/view/99063
So take a look at your running and queued Runbooks and make sure nothing important is sill running or not to many Runbooks are in Queue.
After we have made sure that our SCO is healthy, we can take the next step.
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We have been waiting a long time, Microsoft released the new System Center 2016 suite nearly a month ago.
A few days after, also Update Rollup 1 has been released.
As I am mainly related to SCDPM, SCSM and SCO, I will show you all the news around these three Products
So lets take a look, what’s new with System Center 2016.
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Microsoft released the Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2.
Update Rollup 9 contains Fixes and Updates for SCDPM, SPF, VMM, Windows Azure Pack.
As we know, there is the possibility that the actual Update Rollup can contain some Bugs, so maybe wait a few days to install, or try it on a Test Environment.
Get all Information’s about Update Rollup 10 for System Center 2012 R2:
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