Alert Issues with Major and Minor versions
Posted by Aleksandrs Frolovs in MOSS 2007 / MOSS 2010 on March 9, 2013
I have discovered the following behavior:
- If Major versions are turned on than users in Visitors group (Read) will not receive any alerts.
- If Major and Minor versions are turned on than users in Members group (Contribute) will not receive any alerts.
MOSS (SharePoint) version: 12.0.0.6504 = SP2 + April 2009 Cumulative update
Additional information:
- Alerts in SharePoint (Troubleshooting MOSS/WSS) http://blogs.technet.com/b/steve_chen/archive/2009/11/20/alerts-in-sharepoint-troubleshooting-moss-wss.aspx
- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadminlegacy/thread/c4e1123b-e1ac-4676-9cff-1e42bc881831/
- http://sharepointgod.blogspot.com/2008/12/subsequent-alert-issue-when-major-and.html
MS Private Cloud – Useful Links
Posted by Aleksandrs Frolovs in Cloud, MS Private Cloud, Private Cloud on December 31, 2012
Speakers: Matt McSpirit http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Speakers/matt+mcspirit
- Compete to Win, Part 1: Comparing Core Virtualization Platforms http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2012/VIR311
- Compete to Win, Part 2: Comparing Private Cloud Capabilities http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2012/VIR312
- Microsoft System Center 2012: Managing Heterogeneous Environments with a Microsoft Private Cloud http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/MGT333
Windows Azure – Useful Links
Posted by Aleksandrs Frolovs in Cloud, Public Cloud, Windows Azure on December 31, 2012
Speakers: Mark Russinovich, Mark’s Webcasts http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963887.aspxMark’s Webcasts http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963887.aspx
- Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/AZR209
- Windows Azure Internals http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/AZR302
Cloud Computing – Useful Links
Posted by Aleksandrs Frolovs in Cloud on December 31, 2012
- The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf
SQL Videos
Posted by Aleksandrs Frolovs in MS SQL on October 22, 2012
SQL 2008:
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Best Practices for Customer Deployments http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2010/DAT401
- Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Failover Clustering Implementations http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2010/DAT407
SQL 2012:
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NewZealand/TechEd-New-Zealand-2012/DBI302
Hyper-V, VLANs and HP Teaming useful links
Posted by Aleksandrs Frolovs in HP, MS Hyper-V, MS SCVMM 2008 / 2012, Networking on September 20, 2012
- Hyper-V: Configure VLANs and VLAN Tagging http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1306.hyper-v-configure-vlans-and-vlan-tagging.aspx
- Using HP ProLiant Network Teaming Software with Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 Hyper-V or with Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01663264/c01663264.pdf
- Understanding Hyper-V VLANs http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adamfazio/archive/2008/11/14/understanding-hyper-v-vlans.aspx
- When you try to enable, disable, or update Hyper-V technology, the process stops responding http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950792
- http://www.hyper-v.nu/archives/tag/teaming/
Wired and Wireless Networking with 802.1X – useful links
Posted by Aleksandrs Frolovs in MS NPS / RADIUS, Networking on September 17, 2012
- Step by Step guide to build a Cisco wireless infrastructure using Cisco WLC 5500, Cisco 1142 AP and Microsoft Radius server http://araihan.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/complete-guide-to-build-a-cisco-wireless-infrastructure-using-cisco-wlc-5500-cisco-1142-ap-and-microsoft-radius-server/
- Protocols:
- 802.1X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1X
- EAP – Extensible Authentication Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Authentication_Protocol
- Extensible Authentication Protocol http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb643147.aspx
- PEAP ( Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Extensible_Authentication_Protocol
- Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access
- Microsoft Wireless:
- Wireless Networking http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb530679.aspx
- Wireless Deployment Technology and Component Overview http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457015.aspx
- IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Security with Microsoft Windows http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5142
- Deployment of Protected 802.11 Networks Using Microsoft Windows http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457068.aspx
- Microsoft – Wired
- Wired Networking with 802.1X Authentication http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb545365.aspx
How to implement Change Management process using System Center 2012 – Service Manager (part 1)
Posted by Aleksandrs Frolovs in MS SCSM 2012, MS System Center on June 8, 2012
This is the first in a series of articles that will cover Change Management process implementation using System Center 2012 – Service Manager.
To deliver reliable and effective IT service, organizations need to ensure that changes are planned and purposeful. That is why change management is very important.
Change in any form carries risk—risk of failure, disruption of operations, technical challenges, resource constraints, and unanticipated consequences. But many IT organizations fail at change management, either because they find it so big and onerous that they don’t try it at all, or because they make it so complicated that no one will use it.
System Center 2012 – Service Manager (SCSM 2012) helps IT manage changes through repeatable, predictable, and measured processes. But first of all it is recommended to go through some popular frameworks such as Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0 (MOF 4.0, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc506049.aspx ) or Information Technology Infrastructure Library v3 (ITIL v3, http://www.itil-officialsite.com/home/home.aspx) to get understanding about Change Management goals, process flow and interoperability with other management processes. If an organization mostly use solutions based on Microsoft platform it is recommended to adopt MOF 4.0 framework. But it should be clear that most organizations will require further adjustments of processes described in MOF 4.0 or ITIL 3.0 frameworks.
This article will show you an example how to implement Change Management process (based on MOF 4.0) using System Center 2012 – Service Manager.
In MOF 4.0 Change Management process implementation is described in “Change and Configuration Service Management Function” document (40 pages). Main process is divided into 7 subprocesses:
- Baseline the configuration.
- Initiate the change.
- Classify the change.
- Approve the change.
- Develop and test the change.
- Release the change.
- Validate and review the change.
Baseline the configuration
The first step is “Define and collect the configuration data to track” – importing / creating configuration items (CIs) into configuration management system (CMS). In our case the configuration management system (CMS) is System Center 2012 – Service Manager (SCSM 2012). As you know SCSM 2012 out of the box provides several sources to import configuration items (CIs) from:
- Active Directory connector: add users, groups, printers, and computers (and only these object types) as configuration items into the Service Manager database.
- Configuration Manager connector: creates and populates configuration items for the hardware, software, software updates, DCM configuration baselines, Mobile Device Data (SCCM 2012).
- Operations Manager CI connector: imports objects that are discovered by Operations Manager (SQL DB Engines, Web sites, Active Directory domain controllers, etc.). You must import System Center Operations Manager management packs into Service Manager (Service Manager requires a list of class definitions for these objects).
- Virtual Machine Manager connector: imports objects, such as clouds, templates, and virtual machines.
- CSV file.
Another step recommended to do – create service maps. A service map is a representation of a service from the perspective of the business and user that shows critical dependencies, settings, and areas of responsibility (for more information about service maps, see the Business/IT Alignment Service Management Function from MOF 4.0).
The second step in the “Baseline configuration” subprocess is “Audit the CMS content”.
If you used SCSM 2012 connectors to import information into CMS, all CIs data will be updated automatically according to defined schedule. But you should regularly review and update service maps.
I will continue to discuss Changes Management process implementation using SCSM 2012 and start with review of the second subprocess “Initiate the change” in the next article.
Best practices – System Center Operations Manager
Posted by Aleksandrs Frolovs in MS SCOM 2007 R2 / 2012, MS System Center on May 28, 2012
- Best practices to use when you configure overrides in System Center Operations Manager http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943239/en-us
- System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Best Practices Poster Rule and Monitor Targeting http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=125048
Monitoring Text and CSV log files in System Center Operations Manager
Posted by Aleksandrs Frolovs in MS SCOM 2007 R2 / 2012, MS System Center on May 28, 2012
- Rules and Monitors in OpsMgr 2007 http://blogs.technet.com/b/neharris/archive/2011/04/01/rules-and-monitors-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx
- Monitoring Text and CSV log files in System Center Operations Manager http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2691973
- Using a Generic Text Log rule to monitor an ASCII text file – even when the file is a UNC path http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2009/06/20/using-a-generic-text-log-rule-to-monitor-an-ascii-text-file-even-when-the-file-is-a-unc-path.aspx
- How to Create a Log File Simple Event Detection Unit Monitor in Operations Manager 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb381375.aspx
- Monitor multiple events in a logfile within X minutes http://contoso.se/blog/?p=909