Windows Server team Blog

By now, readers of this blog may have already heard of our presence at VMworld in San Francisco this week. As you can imagine, planning a “guerrilla” activity is never a trivial task, and making it happen requires a lot of hard work behind the scenes. Therefore, I was feeling pretty pleased with what our team had managed to organize as I boarded my flight for San Francisco early Monday morning. Add to this the fact that I was visiting the Bay Area, a place that I called home for seven memorable years – I was really looking forward to the trip.  

VMworld kicks off this week in San Francisco. I happen to know a few loyal VMware IT professionals, and the event is clearly a very exciting time of the year for them - an opportunity to meet other fellow enthusiasts, as well as to learn more about new releases from VMware. But I wonder if they would ever expect to learn more about Microsoft technologies such as Hyper-V and System Center while attending the event. Well, that’s what we’re going to make happen this year, albeit a little creatively.

If you ever have any trouble with UNIX/Linux Agent Discovery in System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012) then the article below is a great place to start. And, since it’s on our TechNet Wiki site, if you have any tips you’d like to share you’re encouraged to do so by editing the article directly.

The System Center 2012 SP1 UR3 package for DPM was re-released on 8-20-13 and fixes the two issues mentioned in our original article here:

The System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) agent can be deployed to Windows computers either via "remote push" from a management server or it can be manually installed on a target computer using MomAgent.msi. If the installation of the agent is not successful, there are a number of troubleshooting steps that can be used depending on where the error is occurring and how the agent will be deployed. For information on troubleshooting OpsMgr 2007 and OpsMgr 2012 agent setup please see the following:

This blog discusses solutions for the two issues,which might be encountered while protecting high churn databases using DPM.

Many calls that we get here on the Operations Manager support team involve blank or empty reports so I wanted to be sure everyone knew about the KB article we have that will help walk you through troubleshooting some of the more common causes of reporting issues. If you ever have any trouble with OpsMgr reporting then this is a great place to start. If you have any suggestions on how we can improve this article please let us know.

​I have mentioned in a previous blog that the use of the right-to-left-override (U+202E) unicode character is nothing new. This blog also went on to show the various file name tricks used by malware.