What's new in System Center 2019?

In March 2018 Microsoft announced System Center 2019, Microsoft also published a roadmap where System Center 2019 is announced for Q1 in 2019.

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Contents

  • The System Center Roadmap

  • System Center Orchestrator 2019

  • System Center Data Protection Manager 2019

  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019

  • System Center Operations Manager 2019

  • System Center Configuration Manager 2019

  • System Center Service Manager 2019

The System Center Roadmap

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You can find the roadmap here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/9/6/59602436-C9C5-48A1-B305-827654B9077B/System_Center_Roadmap_EN_US.pdf

What's new in System Center 2019?

Below you will find most of the new features of all System Center products. 

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System Center Orchestrator

  • 64 bit support.

  • PowerShell version 4 and newer.

  • Support for SQL Server 2017.

  • Support for TLS 1.2.

Process Automation

Orchestrate processes using graphical, PowerShell, and Python runbooks.

Configuration Management

- Collect inventory.

- Track changes.

- Configure desired state.

Update Management

- Assess compliance.

- Schedule update installation.

Azure Functions

Event-driven, compute on-demand, events occurring in Azure, third-party or on-premises systems.

Heterogenous

- Windows and Linux
- Azure and on-premises.

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System Center Data Protection Manager

• Support Windows Server 2019.
• SQL Server 2017.
• VMware to tape backup.
• Modern backup storage improvements.
• Greater flexibility in recovering from Azure.

  • Rich Reporting and Monitoring

    • Custom queries.

    • ITSM integration.

    • No infrastructure.

    • Enterprise Wide.

    • Custom Reports.

    • Cross tenant support.

You can connect to Log Analytics and push data to it or make use of Power BI.

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System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Storage Optimization

  • New option available for a host/cluster: Optimize Disk Space.

  • Storage Health in VMM.

  • We can now see the health of storage and operational status.

    • Storage Pool.

    • LUN.

    • Physical Disk.

    • You can deploy S2D clusters using VMM.

VMM Roles

  • New role:

  • Virtual Machine administrator (VM Admin).

    • Can read fabric but not change anything.

    • Scope (cloud or host groups)

    • Permissions:

      • Specific things like for example: Migrate, Save, Start, Stop, pause and resume...

Host layer 2 network information (also in VMM 1807)

  • Layer 2 info for troubleshooting.

  • Link Layer Discovery Protocol used to enumerate details.

Connect your virtual network with datacenter physical network

  • GUI support for L3 Forwarding gateway creation.

Secure data in transit between VMs in a subnet

  • NC controlled Virtual Network.

Migrate UEFI VMware VM to Hyper-V Gen2

  • Convert VM wizard:

    • Auto-detect source VM firmware configuration.

    • Select default Hyper-V VM generation.

    • Default enables secure boot firmware.

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System Center Operations Manager

HTML5 dashboards

  • No dependency

  • Easy access

  • Extensibility

  • Faster resolutions

  • Inline actions

  • Operator friendly

Notification and subscription enhancement

  • Enhanced criteria builder with the ability to perform "OR" and "Exclude" operations.

  • Rich HTML email notifications

  • Flexibility to customize HTML content

  • New setting available: "Enable HTML formatting for the email message"

Enhanced alert management for Monitors

Current:

  • Alert generating monitor -> Generates an alert:

  • The operator works on the issue and closes the alert.

  • The alert is closed.

New:

  • Alert generating monitor -> Generates an alert:

    • The operator works on the issue and closes the alert.

    • The alert is not allowed to be closed.

  • New Dashboard: Alert Closure Failure.

  • Linux/UNIX monitoring enhancements.

  • Enhanced Linux/UNIX alerting in failover scenarios.

  • No duplicate alerts.

  • Updates & recommendations for Linux workloads.

  • Management pack updates.

  • Linux Log file monitoring:

    • Application Logs.

    • Network Protocols.

    • Cloud Services (Azure).

    • Others (Docker/DSTAT/MySQL).

    • Monitor any data source > Generate alerts in SCOM.

  • Application Performance Monitoring Agent (available in Update Rollup 6 for SCOM 2016)

  • Scheduled Maintenance Mode

  • Service Map integration

    • Automatically discover and map servers and their dependencies in real-time with minimal configuration.

    • Leverage SCOM monitoring for overlaying health information on the Service Map.

    • Azure Management Pack for SCOM.

    • SQL Server 2017 support.

    • Monitor Windows Server 2019.

    • Monitoring latest application servers like Tomcat 9, WildFly 14, WebSphere 9.0, and Web Logic Server 12cR2.

    • VSEA support for Visual Studio 2017.

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System Center Configuration Manager

  • Support all patching scenarios enabled today for servers and VMs.

  • Current branch releases align with Windows and Office.

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System Center Service Manager

  • Improved UI responsiveness.

  • AD connector improvement.

  • Support for SQL Server 2017.

  • Support for TLS 1.2.

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Service Catalog

Build and deliver turnkey applications to your enterprise IT customers.

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 Azure Policy

Enable security and management at scale for Azure resources.

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 Azure Blueprint

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 Ticketing

Partner-enabled solutions.

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