Altiris - Best Practice references for Symantec Management Platform 7.1

Best Practice references for Symantec Management Platform 7.1:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO35984

SCOM 2007 R2 Comulative Update 5

Cumulative Update 5 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is available

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2495674 (948 MB)

SCOM 2007 R2 - Exchange 2010 Management Pack Tuning

Guidance, Tuning and Known Issues for the Exchange 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2592561

SCOM 2012 BETA - Now available

Public beta is available for download here:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26804

SCCM 2012 Beta 2 VHD Download

VHD Test Drive – System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (on Windows Server 2008 R2). 

Download. App. 11 GB

SCOM 2007 R2 - Admin Resource Kit

System Center Operations Manager R2 Admin Resource Kit was released 3th of June 2011 (version 1.0.0.0).

Available for download here.

SCOM 2007 R2 - New management packs portal

The System Center Marketplace:

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/default.aspx

Management packs for SCOM sorted by release date:

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/search/operations-manager-d11?sort=released&q=

SCOM 2007 R2 SQL Server Monitoring MP

SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack was released 6th of May 2011 (version 6.1.400.0)

SCOM 2007 R2 - Pool NonPaged Bytes monitoring

One of the way to monitor Memory Leaks in the system is to monitor the NonPaged Pool Bytes performance counter.

Troubleshooting WMI probe and Script related problems (part 3)

Part I.

Part II.

This part applies for Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 managed servers.

Troubleshooting WMI probe and Script related problems (part 2)

Previous part.

This part applies for Windows 2003 managed servers.

I would remind you that we are investigating the following types of alerts:

SCOM 2007 R2 - Email Scheduled Reports

Don't forget to configure email settings on a Report Server.

SCCM 2012 technet documentation

SCCM 2012 official documentation available on technet:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682041.aspx

SCCM 2007 versions numbers!

 Table of SCCM updates, builds and versions!

SCOM 2007 R2 - Counting Alerts from each management pack

Let's gather statistics about how much alerts are being generated by each management pack in your SCOM environment.

SCOM 2007 R2 - The service threw an unknown exception

Database connection related issue(when you try to install an agent):
The service threw an unknown exception. See inner exception...

Altiris 7.1 Suites and Solutions documentation

It will be the place for all actual documentation for Altiris 7.1. 

Installing Altiris IT Management Suite(ITMS) 7.1

My experience of installation ITSM 7.1 in test environment. It was not so easy as it could be.

SCOM 2007 R2 Exchange 2010 SP1 MP

 

Exchange Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack was released 6th April 2011(version 14.02.0071.0).

Induction to Symantec Altiris Solutions

Altiris Inc. is a subsidiary of Symantec specializing in service-oriented management software which allows organizations to manage IT assets. They also provide software for web services, security, and systems management products. Established in 1998, Altiris is headquartered in Lindon, Utah, United States. Altiris has over 20,000 customers managing more than 3 million servers and 60 million desktops and laptops.

On January 29, 2007, Symantec announced plans to acquire Altiris and on April 6, 2007 the acquisition was completed.