System Center Cross Platform and Interop

I recently built my first-ever Operations Manager Management Pack recently. It wasn’t exactly a “Hello World” MP (I built a CentOS MP) but those that know me would say that’s typical of me. I like to dive down and get going when I discover new things. Read More...

One of the initial configuration requirements (and one of the top things new users forget to do) for cross platform monitoring is setting up the user accounts to use for privileged and non-privileged actions. But what exactly are privileged and non-privileged actions? Why would you need one or the other? Read More...

We are happy to release several Cross Platform specific PowerShell scripts to help automate the discovery of UNIX/Linux Servers, installation/upgrade of the Cross Platform Agents, Signing of the Certificates, and Changing the Management Server managing the UNIX/Linux Server. Four PowerShell scripts are currently available: · ChangeUnixIsManagedBy.ps1 · DiscoverUnixAgent.ps1 · InstallUnixAgent.ps1 · UpgradeUnixAgent.ps1 Read More...

We are happy to announce that the Cross Platform Extensions Beta 1 refresh is now available on the Microsoft connect site - http://connect.microsoft.com . We appreciate the feedback on the product received to date and hope you will continue this. Please Read More...

I originally came from the partner team, where I recall telling folks that we would do a cross platform solution "when pigs flew" and here I am today. How far we have come! To celebrate the release of CPE at MMS and my statement above, we decided to have Read More...

Here is a link to another first experience blog post. What is interesting about this post, is that he did not have one of the supported platforms available, so he "improvised" :-) Check it out Read More...

On of the System Center MVPs (Anders Bengtsson) posted an article on his blog of his first expressions of CPE. Check it out Read More...

For those of you at MMS in Las Vegas, hope you are all having fun! We wanted to remind you that we have a session today that is going to cover the Cross Platform Extensions beta. In the session, we will cover the architecture, features, release plans Read More...

Hello and welcome to the System Center Cross Platform and Interop blog site. Today Microsoft announced a few new beta products – two of which came from our team. The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, which enable customers Read More...