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System Center Universe 2014 – American Texas Pizza Sessie
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Op donderdag 30 januari organiseren we de eerste sessie van dit jaar – een heuse American Texas Pizza sessie rondom de System Center Universe 2014. De System Center Universe 2014 is een eendaags kennis evenement rondom System Center, Private Cloud & Datacenter met topsprekers en community experts. Een indrukwekkende line-up met onder andere Wally Mead, Kent Agerlund, Travis Wright en Maarten Goet. Dit evenement wordt fysiek gehouden in Houston TX (USA) en is via een livestream wereldwijd te volgen. Een niet te missen ervaring waarbij kosmische kennis en community samenkomen.
We zijn erg blij met onze gastheer en sponsor van deze avond Inter Access te Hilversum. Inter Access stelt het fraaie auditorium beschikbaar van waaruit we – onder begeleiding van een pizza slice en soda – via livestream de onderstaande sessies zullen volgen.
Agenda
13:30 – 14:15 Ontvangst
14:15 – 14:45 Introductie / Visie Inter Access
15:00 – 15:10 Welcome – Your Emcee, Cameron Fuller, MVP
15:10 – 15:55
Become the Hero of the Day – Master ConfigMgr 2012 R2 with a Limited Budget and Free Community Tools
presented by Kent Agerlund
No doubt that Configuration Manager 2012 R2 is a very powerful product that can be used “right out of the box. However, with the help from the massive list of free community tools, you can take the standard features to a whole new level of automation. In this session, Kent Agerlund will demonstrate how to solve daily challenges like managing clients, software updates, operating system deployment, application management and much more using nothing but Configuration Manager and free tools – Expect a session full of demos.
16:00 – 16:45
SCSM SSP WAP SMA PS – How a Bunch of Letters Can Help You Deliver Solutions Faster, with Fewer Issues, Save Money, Impress the Boss, and Get You a Promotion
presented by Travis Wright
In this presentation, Travis Wright will get into the details of the new Service Management Automation (SMA) platform built on Power Shell (PS) that is part of the new Windows Azure Pack (WAP) and show how to integrate wi:5th SCSM (System Center Service Manager) using the new SMA Connector and Self-Service Portal (SSP). You’ll leave the session with a clear understanding of the importance of PS and WAP/SMA in Microsoft’s systems management strategy and how that ties into SCSM for process control and automation. Advanced concepts of SMA will also be covered such as how to create custom modules and programmatically interact with SMA.
16:50 – 17:20 Pizza Break
17:25 – 18:10
Identity Management for Hybrid IT with Windows Azure and Windows Server 2012 R2
presented by Maarten Goet
In the 13+ years since the original Active Directory product launched with Windows 2000, it has grown to become the default identity management and access-control solution for over 95% of organizations around the world. But, as organizations move to the cloud, their identity and access control also need to move to the cloud. As companies rely more and more on SaaS-based applications and the range of cloud-connected devices being used to access corporate assets continue to grow, along with the increased use of more hosted and public cloud capacity, companies must expand their identity solutions to the cloud. With this in mind, Microsoft set out to build a solution. Join seven-year Microsoft MVP Maarten Goet in this hands-on session featuring Windows Azure and Windows Server 2012 R2 and get your identity management for Hybrid IT fast-track started today!
18:15 – 19:15
Managing Modern Mobile Devices with System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
presented by Wally Mead
Are you struggling with allowing your end users to use their own devices to access company resources while still providing the desired level of control and security? Microsoft’s System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, when integrated with Windows Intune, can provide great capabilities for managing mobile devices in addition to its support for your on premise Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix server support. This session will cover the mobile device support to help you, the IT admin, with providing support for BYOD scenarios.
19:15 – 20:00 Borrel
Adres en Route locatie:
Inter Access
Colosseum 9
1213 NN Hilversum
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Recently I had the opportunity to play with Orchestrator and saw that I need some more practice on how to create a runbook Most of the time creating the runbook cost me more time than doing this by hand ;-(
Then I saw this cookbook Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012.
The book is written by : Andreas Baumgarten (MVP), Steve Beaumont and Sam Erskine.
Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 simplifies the process of automating systems administration tasks. Originally a third-party product named Opalis, which Microsoft acquired in 2009, Orchestrator provides a simplified way of building complex automation. System Center Orchestrator is a complete solution that goes beyond basic automation.
“Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator Cookbook” will teach you how to plan, create and manage powerful runbooks to help you automate mission-critical and routine administration tasks. The book is a very practical book guidance on installation and configuring the Security settings and securing the SQL server.
The Table of content. there are nine chapters described as below. and yes system center products are more and more needed so Highly available Scorch is an option. ( well Not described as an FCI ) On the Packt website you can find all the chapter details. I just highlight two chapters.
Chapter 1: Unpacking System Center 2012 Orchestrator
- Chapter 2: Initial Configuration and Making SCORCH Highly Available
- Introduction
- Loading Integration Packs (IPs)
- Configuring Integration Pack connections
- Deploying Runbook Servers and Designers with Deployment Manager
- Making your Runbooks highly available
- Creating and maintaining a security model for Orchestrator
Chapter 3: Planning and Creating Runbook Designs
Chapter 4: Creating Runbooks for Active Directory Tasks
Chapter 5: Creating Runbooks for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Tasks
Chapter 6: Creating Runbooks for System Center 2012 Operations Manager Tasks
Chapter 7: Creating Runbooks for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Tasks
Chapter 8: Creating Runbooks for System Center 2012 Service Manager Tasks
- Chapter 9: Using Advanced Techniques in Runbooks
- Introduction
- Creating child Runbooks
- Implementing error handling in your Runbooks
- Implementing logging in your Runbooks
- Creating looping Runbooks
Appendix: Useful Websites and Community Resources
After reading this book you will see this example as not so complicated anymore. This book is very helpful If you are beginners or pro’s on Orchestrators
This is a great guide and really helpful if you are using Orchestrator
The book is available at Pack Publishing, Amazon.com, and Amazon.de :
“Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator Cookbook” at Packt Publishing
“Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator Cookbook” at Amazon.de
“Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator Cookbook” at Amazon.com
Here is a great list with the latest System Center and Management related content.
Want to join the twitter list or don’t know what the hastags are from the system center Products.
System Center Hashtags like #cloud
System Center: #sysctr
System Center App Controller: #appctrl
System Center Virtual Machine Manager: #vmm
System Center Service Manager: #scsm
System Center Operations Manager: #scom
System Center Data Protection Manager: #dpm
System Center Orchestrator: #sco
System Center Advisor: #scadvisor
System Center Configuration Manager: #configmgr
System Center Azure: #azure
System Center Windows Azure Pack: #wap
There is a Free ebook available for download offering from Microsoft Press. These unique (and free) ebooks bring System Center experts together to discuss designing, deploying, and troubleshooting some of the most complex and mission critical aspects of key System Center capabilities.
The third title in this series, Microsoft System Center: Troubleshooting Configuration Manager (ISBN 9780735683020) by Rushi Faldu, Manoj Kumar Pal, Andre Della Monica, Kaushal Pandey, and the System Center series editor Mitch Tulloch, is now available.
Introduction
As the authors of this book, we have tried provide you with insights and tips on troubleshooting System Center 2012 Configuration Manager drawn from our insider knowledge and real-world field experience. While most of you who are Configuration Manager administrators are fairly comfortable with the product and can perform common management tasks, many of you still have pain points when it comes to certain aspects of how the product works. Based on our observations and interactions with customers, the biggest knowledge gaps tend to be in the following areas:
- Troubleshooting common Configuration Manager tasks such as software distribution, software updates, and deployment.
- Understanding how the various components of Configuration Manager on both the server and client side work together when such tasks are performed.
- Dealing with the enormous number of log files that are generated on both the server and client side of Configuration Manager.
This book is our attempt to address some of these gaps and pain points. Chapter 1 provides insights into the Configuration Manager architecture and deployment principles. Chapter 2 familiarizes you with some of the key components of Configuration Manager and how they interact with each other when performing common tasks by using verbose logging for tracing the actions of various components. And Chapter 3 examines how to troubleshoot various Configuration Manager functionality including software and application deployment, site-to-site replication, software update and patching, operating system deployment, and Mac client issues.
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