System Center 2012 – Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public. • The Getting Started section contains the following documentation: • • • • Lists the hardware and software requirements for installing Operations Manager. • The procedure for upgrading from System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) – Operations Manager to System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager. • The procedure for upgrading from System Center 2012 – Operations Manager to System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) – Operations Manager.

Updated: May 13, 2016. Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Virtual Machine Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager, System Center 2012. Full-featured System Center 2012 R2 product evaluation software available for EXE download.

• The Deployment Guide contains installation procedures for multiple deployment scenarios and instructions for upgrading an Operations Manager 2007 R2 management group to Operations Manager. • The Operations Guide includes administrative, monitoring, reporting, and operating tasks typically performed by an administrator or operator. It follows the Deployment Guide in order of use during an Operations Manager implementation project, but does not assume that the administrator or operator participated in the installation of the Operations Manager infrastructure.

• The Author’s Guide explains how to create rules, monitors, and monitoring solutions. • The guidance for authoring custom reports for Operations Manager has not changed in System Center 2012. This topic provides a link to the Report Authoring Guide for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.

• This documentation provides an online version of the cmdlet help that is available in the Operations Manager Shell for System Center core cmdlets, Operations Manager cmdlets, and cross-platform cmdlets. • The Privacy Statement explains many of the data collection and use practices of Operations Manager. This privacy statement focuses on features that communicate with the Internet and is not intended to be an exhaustive list. It does not apply to other online or offline Microsoft sites, products or services. • Logo Certification Errors describes items identified during the logo certification process. Coreavc Codec Alternative.

Updated: May 13, 2016 Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager Deploy System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager (DPM) to back up servers, computers, Microsoft workloads, system state, and bare metal recovery (BMR). Did you know that Microsoft Azure provides similar functionality in the cloud?

Learn more about. Create a hybrid storage solution in Microsoft Azure: - - • —Learn what’s new, verify system requirements and unsupported scenarios, and get an overview of DPM features. • —Read white papers from the DPM product and content teams, and the community.

• —Follow instructions for installing DPM and Central Console, upgrading, repairing, and uninstalling. • —Plan for DPM server deployment, storage, protection, and recovery.

Learn about deploying DPM with Operations Manager. • —Deploy storage, the DPM protection agent, and set up protection for computers, servers, and workloads.

• Monitor and Manage DPM—Set up DPM monitoring, administer and manage DPM servers and Central Console, set up recovery for protected workloads. • —Troubleshoot DPM errors and issues. • – Data Protection Manager—Learn about deploying, administering, and monitoring DPM using Windows PowerShell • —Read the DPM release notes.