OpsMgr 2012 Beta Setup and Upgrade Meeting Notes

Here are some notes & things that I’ve taken from the the OM 2012 Beta Video Conference.

• When upgrading your agents from OpsMgr 2007 R2 to OpsMgr 2012; you’ll be asked if you want to upgrade all your agents if it discovers that there are OpsMgr 2007 R2 Agents out there. You may choose to move forward, but you’ll not get monitoring. You’ll need to update each of these machines.
• SQL permissions for:

 

• If you installed the OM 2012 Beta, you have to upgrade to OM 2012 RC before your can install the OM 2012 RTM. You cannot go straight to the RTM from Beta.
• SKD and Config account needs to be a local administrator on each system.
• You can not change the name of your Management Group

• System Center Operations Manager 2012 Beta Upgrade Process Flow Diagram