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System Center is a suite of Microsoft products consisting of tools for the deployment and management and automation of systems.

The System Center suite of Microsoft contains multiple products meant to manage and automate the management and deployment of systems.

Among those tools are:

  • System Center Service Manager (SCSM): Ticket system
  • System Center Operations Manager (SCOM): System Monitoring
  • System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM): System and Software Deployment/Patch Management
  • System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM): Backup
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager: VM Management
  • System Center Orchestrator: Automation
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Any experience with MS System Center Linux/UNIX agents

My current employer is planning on rolling out System Center agents on Linux and Solaris servers. I'm not here to debate why I'm not a fan of this idea, that battle has already been fought and lost (not really a battle, simply management decree…
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Can the features of Dell OpenManage be replaced by Microsoft System Center?

I'm new to both OpenManage and System Center, but it sounds as if they're geared towards similar problems/goals. Are the features comparable enough that OpenManage can be forgone completely in favor of System Center products? Specifically I'm…
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Network or Active Directory Required Resources Not Available

Using Microsoft System Center I continually have the following errors. Alert: Network or Active Directory Required Resources Not Available Source: DC-SMS01.hq.gratisinc.com Path: Last modified by: System Last modified time: 5/13/2009 12:10:24…
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Certain SC Orchestrator Send E-Mail activities are sending 2 emails

Also posted this on TechNet but barking up this tree too just in case. Not really sure what's going on here, but I have certain System Center Orchestrator (2012 R2) Runbooks that are sending multiple e-mails, when they are only supposed to send 1.…
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Possible to determine who launches a Runbook in SC Orchestrator 2012 R2?

is it possible to determine what Windows account executes a Runbook? I'm using SC Orchestrator 2012 R2. ideally, I want to determine what account (for auditing, and sending emails) launches a run book. Thanks in advance.
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powershell cmdlet for system center 2012 end point protection?

Anyone knows if there are cmdlets for endpoint protection in system center 2012? I am trying to force to update definitions for endpoint protection from system center 2012, looks there is no such way to do it. every time if I have a new PC, I have…
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Managing Azure Backups

I'm using the Azure Backup Agent on a couple of Azure VMs to backup files to an Azure Backup Vault. I don't see a way to monitor or receive notifications on the status of the backups through the agent. From my searching it appears that System…
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System Center 2012 Alternatives

Are there any good alternatives to System Center 2012? I'm looking for a system platform that allows gives us a replacement for SCCM, SCOM, EdnPoitn Protection, DPM and Global Service Monitor and can run in the cloud to monitor/manage other servers…
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Can/should System Center 2012 Configuration Manager be installed on an Active Directory server?

I'd like to improve the monitoring of my environment, and after experimenting with Splunk Storm, New Relic and others have decided to have a look at using the Monitoring pack in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Unfortunately, I have…
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Systems Center service template including AD

I'm trying to design an SCVMM (2012 SP1) service template that contains several machines joined in a domain, but the trick is that the very domain controller is also in the template. Ie. the template contains a machine that will become the AD and…
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system center configuration manager

I have a colleague that is looking for help with the following situation. If anyone can be of assistance, it would be appreciated. Thanks. From his email: A couple of months ago, the admin spent quite a bit of time installing SCCM as a pilot. (We…
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SCCM: Collection that queries against a security group

Is there a way to specify that a collection queries against a specific security group in AD, or can it only query against machines already in it's db put there via discovery methods?
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Mystery Package when adding a new SCCM Distribution Point

My SCCM hierarchy has three Distribution Points and I am adding a fourth. The new Distribution Point is added successfully, and when I check Content Status I see that all of my content items are now properly targeting all four Distribution Points,…
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system center operation management ( SCOM ) log collection and full text searching

I want to collect all events in all windows servers (nearly 50 server) (from windows event viewer) in SCOM, and full text search on it. My question is: how can I do it?
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System Center 2012 location of the updates

Hey there we are using System Center 2012 here and im kinda new to it. The Server downloaded so many patches/updates the Partition where they get downloaded is now full. I cant find the damn option to change the path/drive where the downloads end…
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