In order to provide a more consistent experience with the System Center product family, we've moved new blog content from the Opalis, Orchestrator and System Center Cross Platform sites to other System Center sites. For Opalis / Orchestrator content, see the Orchestrator blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator . For Operations Manager cross-platform content, see the Operations Manager blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam .

  The public beta version of Operations Manager 2012 is now available here ( http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/om-vnext-beta.aspx ).   This is first publicly available version of the new release, and it has lots of great new capabilities as described on the web page.   There’s a great datasheet and FAQ list that are linked to from that page. New cross-platform capabilities are in two categories:  UNIX/Linux and Java.   For UNIX/Linux, the major improvements...

<plagiarizing directly from Justin Incarnato of the OpsMgr team> I’m very happy to announce that R2 CU4 has now shipped.  The Download and KB Article are available here: KB Article:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2449679 Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=39a871e0-d996-4568-be5d-2edb6f539330&displaylang=en CU4 is the highest quality CU shipped thus far, and resolves numerous long standing OM issues.  It also significantly improves the...

Having started on the Cross Platform & Interop team before Opalis was a part of it, I think about cross platform integration a lot. Working with Opalis these days, I think about how we can handle cross platform situations in the data center, which includes working with UNIX and Linux. Opalis includes and Integration Pack for UNIX, which includes the following activities: Add Line Delete Line Rename File Copy File Insert Line Replace Text Create Folder Monitor File Restart System Delete File Monitor...

Cross Platform Cumulative Update 3 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is now available! Release notes for this update This update is only for cross platforms including the Linux operating system and the UNIX operating system. This update is released as built-in components that are included in Cumulative Update 3 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 instead of as a separate update . Cross platform updates are language neutral. Therefore, this update is released in English...

Within any software company, it's always a struggle to come up with the right mix of functionality and features for each release. In Microsoft, we try to gather a lot of customer data to help up make those decisions, and a common battle cry of product development teams for resourcing projects is "show me the data!". One of the tools we use is the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP), which for Operations Manager produces the Operational Data Reports (ODR). In short, the ODR reports...

Yesterday I posted an article on the Opalis blog about this topic, so I thought it only fitting that I repeat it here, customized for Cross Platform of course… Microsoft is a big company, and there are lots of moving parts. A lot of times, things happen and you don't know about it, like new KB articles being released. I thought of this yesterday when JC Hornbeck posted a new article on the Opalis blog and referenced the KB at the end. Now, I get a monthly email with a spreadsheet of new or updated...