All posts for the month January, 2013

System Center Operations Manager 2012 Monitoring Pack for Windows Server 2012 Remote Access

Microsoft recently released a Monitoring Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2012 specifically targets the Remote Access role in Windows Server 2012. With this new monitoring pack, a systems management engineer can monitor a Windows Server 2012 server with the remote access role installed for the following conditions:

DirectAccess

  • Network interface connection and settings issues
  • IPv6 transition protocol configuration
  • DoS, spoof, and replay attack heuristics
  • IPsec state
  • DNS and management server configuration
  • Underlying service status
  • OTP-related heuristics

Remote Access and Site-to-Site VPN

  • Connection failures
  • Improper configuration
  • Hardware device and IPsec related failures
  • Monitoring of performance counters and instrumentation

This management pack leverages PowerShell cmdlets such as Get-RemoteAccess, Get-DAMultisite, and Get-RemoteAccessHealth. As such, only Windows Server 2012 is supported by this management pack. You can download the System Center Operations Manager 2012 Monitoring Pack for the Windows Server 2102 Remote Access role here.

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by Richard M. Hicks on January 31, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Richard M. Hicks on January 31, 2013

https://directaccess.richardhicks.com/2013/01/31/system-center-operations-manager-2012-monitoring-pack-for-windows-server-2012-remote-access/

Windows Server 2012 Security Book

Great news! Windows Server 2012 Security from End to Edge and Beyond is now available for pre-order! Yuri Diogenes along with Tom and Deb Shinder are the authors of this forthcoming title from Syngress Publishing which covers architecting, designing, planning, and deploying Windows Server 2012 security solutions. I have the privilege of serving as the technical reviewer of the book and I can tell you from experience it will be a vital reference that anyone working with Windows Server 2012 will want to have in their library. Pre-order your copy today!

Windows Server 2012 Security from End to Edge and Beyond

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by Richard M. Hicks on January 11, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Richard M. Hicks on January 11, 2013

https://directaccess.richardhicks.com/2013/01/11/windows-server-2012-security-book/

PAL v2.3.3 Now with Forefront UAG 2010 Support

Recently the Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool was updated and now includes a threshold file for Forefront UAG 2010. PAL is an essential utility that can make troubleshooting performance issues or capacity planning dramatically easier. I’ve written about using PAL on Forefront TMG 2010 in the past, and using PAL with Forefront UAG 2010 will be very similar. You can download the latest release of PAL at pal.codeplex.com.

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by Richard M. Hicks on January 8, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Richard M. Hicks on January 8, 2013

https://directaccess.richardhicks.com/2013/01/08/pal-v2-3-3-now-with-forefront-uag-2010-support/