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Hi all,

Being passionate about the products of Microsoft System Center, I tested the new version of System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 and that’s why I wrote this post, this post indicate how to install and configure the SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1!

Small reminder on System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2:

Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 helps enable centralized management of physical and virtual IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms. It includes end-to-end capabilities such as planning, deploying, managing, and optimizing the virtual infrastructure.

What’s New in Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1:

To start, always start with the prerequisites ( lol as usual ):

For SCVMM Server:

For download all informations on SCVMM 2008 R2, click HERE

In my example, you need a:

• 1 Windows 2008  R2 Enterprise for Domain Controller
• 1 Windows 2008  R2 Enterprise for SCVMM server integrated with active directory domain
• 1 SQL 2008 Server source HERE
• SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 download HERE

It’s start!

1 – Install SQL 2008 Server (not detailed here…)

2- Launch Setup.exe install and click on Installation>> select VMM server

3-Select Accept terms licence … and click Next

4-At this step, there is a choice between whether to participate in product improvement program, personally I always accept because it allows Microsoft engineers can improve the breadth of the product, I invite you to accept .. .:-) and click next

5 -Insert User Name and company name and click Next

6 -Click Next

7 -Click Next

8 -Select Use SQL Server option

Insert all informations for connect to the sql database ,select create new database and click next:

9 – Select new LIBRARY option and click next

10-Click Next

11 -Click Install

12 -Install in progress….:-)

13 -Select or not the Auto Update Option and click next

14 -Great, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 installation is finish!!!!

Don’t forget to install VMM administration console to manage System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 (not detailed here)

After install VMM console, you can access to your  System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 platform…:-)

whenever I have a little more time, I will detail how to migrate a VMware virtual machine to a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 machine , see you soon

bye

Michael BERTUIT

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Hi all,

Big news !!!  Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 for System Center Configuration M R2; R3 is available in RTM Version!!!

What Is Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010?

Desktop management and security have traditionally existed as two separate disciplines, yet both play a central role in keeping users safe and productive. Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 enables businesses to align client security and management to improve endpoint protection while greatly reducing operational costs. It provides protection from evolving malware threats and builds on Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and R3. This enables customers to use their existing client management infrastructure to deploy and manage endpoint protection.

What’s New in Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010?

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 is built on Configuration Manager 2007 R2 or R3, which enables you to use your existing client-management infrastructure. You can deploy and manage endpoint protection through a single interface of Configuration Manager, which enables you to manage and secure endpoints without the need for additional servers to support FEP. This integration is based on:

1. Centralized deployment: Central package installation on client machines.
2. Policy Management: Endpoint security policies can be defined centrally through the management console. Predefined templates for productivity and security defaults make it simpler to define policies based on best practices. It helps reduce complexity and improve troubleshooting and reporting insights, and can save time and effort.
3. Customized alerts: Forefront Endpoint Protection generates alerts when it detects malware—alerts are based on the severity of the malware. Alerts can also be customized for specific types of malware detection.
4. Reporting: View the overall status of security threats, actions needed, and the overall health status of client machines.

Configuration Manager distribution is used to centrally manage and monitor the deployment of FEP to client computers in your existing infrastructure. With this method, you can control which Configuration Manager collections the client is deployed to, and use the provided reports to determine deployment status or drill-down to information about computers on which the client failed to deploy and why
Organizations can use their existing WSUS infrastructure to receive the signature and antimalware engine updates. Additionally, administrators can define network file shares or Internet-based Microsoft Update to provide the latest signature updates to the clients.

In the related section of this common usage scenario, you will evaluate the process of centralized client deployment through Configuration Manager 2007. This scenario provides step-by step instructions to distribute and advertise the software to existing or new endpoints.

For download:

• Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 RTM Evaluation version

Pre-Configured Virtual Environment for FEP Evaluation Link:

You can download the pre-configured virtual environment at:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=190269

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Hi all,

Great news, the System Center Service Manager 2010 SP1 is available!!!

What’s new in this Service pack?

• Consolidation of all language versions in a single release and readiness for simultaneous shipping at RTM.
• Support for 10 additional languages (See documentation for details)
• Integration of the Authoring Tool release and three cumulative updates
• Performance fixes across the board in data access layer
• Generic performance tracing in SDK
• Performance enhancement for transforms
• Usability and accessibility fixes throughout the product
• Fixes in AD / OM connectors including support of importing Exchange 2003 distributed application
• Notification issues related to multiple notifications
• Localizability and globalization fixes throughout the product
• Data, layout, and localization fixes in reports
• Data warehouse enhancements including additional numeric datatype support for measures
• Support of SQL 2008 R2
• UI memory leak fixes
• Intel Video Driver issue causing console crashes fixed by third party (Intel)

Click HERE for download

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Hi all,

It is with great pleasure that I inform that our video on SCCM 2012 with SCCM Godfather Wally Mead is available.
It addresses several aspects of our dear SCCM product in 2012 version…
I’ll let you discover …

Here is our dear Mr. Wally Mead (now left in photo):

About this Video

Length: 15 minutes 24 seconds

Of course I dedicate this post to our dear Wally Mead!

Thanks a lot to Alex de Jong and Microsoft Edge Team source:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/sccm-2012-with-sccm-godfather-wally-mead.aspx

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Hi all,

It is with great pleasure that I announce that the level of support SCCM has grown, here are the latest supported configurations:

Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 is now supported on Configuration Manger 2007 SP1 and SP2

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 and SP2 now support the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 operating systems for client installation. The site system role of a standard distribution point and branch distribution point is supported. Installations of the administrator console or other site system roles are not supported.

No software updates are required.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 is now supported on Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, SP2 and R2

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, SP2 and R2 now support Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 as a Configuration Manager 2007 site database. The site system role of Reporting Services Point and the client status reporting feature of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 are supported.

No software updates are required.

For more informations click Here

Thanks a lot to

System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog for this news!