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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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Multiple VM Templates vs Service Templates

I am having trouble wrapping my head around the need/usage of a Service Template in System Center 2012 R2. I understand that when you define a service, you are specifying one or more vm templates that will be deployed. In my case, I need to set up…
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How can I deploy the Microsoft System Center Advisor agent to multiple Windows 2008 R2 servers?

How can I deploy the Microsoft System Center Advisor agent to multiple Windows 2008 R2 servers? My company has Intune but it's not for servers. I have about 20 2008 R2 virtual machine to install the agent on. Thanks.
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SCCM 2012 R2: Email / Alert on component status errors

I know that as of SCCM SP1 we are now able to monitor and alert on a few more things in SCCM. We can now alert if there are problems with not only AV / malware alerts but also client and database problems. However, it doesn't seem like there is…
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How do I find the HKLM Registry Key of a Server Role for use in SCOM

I am learning to use SCOM in order to develop a SCOM pack. The only usable tool I have found (yet) to develop a pack is Visio (with the management pack designer). I managed to create a pack that monitors a specific service, and now I want to create…
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SCCM 2007 + FEP 2010 deployment - when can I upgrade sql server?

I am in the process of migrating our forefront client security installation on the domain over to a forefront endpoint protection based on system center configuration manager 2007 platform. I have installed SCCM 2007 and FEP 2010. I am still on sql…
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Syntax for file and process exclusions in Forefront Endpoint Protection?

I can't seem to find an official and up-to-date documentation on how to set up file and process exclusions in Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012. For file types, which of these will work? Are they the same? ext .ext *.ext What about…
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Why is Configuration Manager 2012 creating a SMSPKG folder on my C: drive?

I'm testing System Center Configuration Manager 2012, and I installed it on a server with two disks (using a SQL Server instance on a second server). Before installing, I created a file called no_sms_on_drive.sms on my system drive (C:). As…
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VMM 2012 Adding Hosts in Trusted Forest

I have two forests with a two way trust between them. VMM 2012 sits in ForestA and I can discover hosts in ForestA with no issue. When I try to discover hosts in ForestB I hit one of two issues: If I go through the GUI or use Powershell just like I…
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case-insensitive SCOM Rule expression

I have a Rule watching the Application Log for Event 17137 (database starting up). A minor annoyance is that, whenever an instance is failed over, we see alerts fire from both the node and the instance for the same instance starting up. I'd like…
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migrating from SCE to SCCM+SCOM

I'm planning to migrate from System Center Essentials 2010 to Configuration Manager and Operations Manager. I know a lot about the first, little about the latter two, so before I start digging into it, I'd like to clear up a few things. First of…
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System Center Deployment

I've been looking for a way to update third-party software on my client computers for a while. I want to do some monitoring, push Windows updates for my client computers and push updates for things like Flash, Java and my virus scanning software.…
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SCOM, Powershell and SMTP

I have created a Powershell script that emulates a telnet connection to an SMTP Server, the purpose of this is to check our SMTP gateway server to see if there is issue with sending mail. The script works the way I want it to and I have a good…
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System Center Configuration Manager 2007 - Debugging Client Installs

Having an issue installing the CCMsetup client on desktops. The CCMSetup makes it to the PC, files are there, it gets added to the services for automatic start, it starts, but quits almost instantly. Logs on the desktop show a entry like…
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How to query SCCM for all collections that a user is a member of?

We will shortly be moving all our user accounts to a new domain, as part of this the user accounts will pick up new SMS ResourceIDs in SCCM. What I need to do is to query SCCM for all collections that a user is a member of, so that I can duplicate…
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System Center Essentials question

Hopefully quick question... I have an AD environment with an empty forest-root and then a child domain that all the users and computers are in. I've just installed SCE and I did it at the domain level. Now I want to add the 3 AD servers in the…
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