Greg Stigers

I'm installing the System Center Private Cloud Evaluation on two Windows 2012 servers for the second time right now, with every intention of licensing System Center and making these our "real" System Center servers. I have a remote SQL Server install, instances on SQL Server 2012 Enterprise, because that's what we're running. I'm on Part 5. So far, so good, altho I have my own noob questions to post. And the current version of System Center has a few differences from the Windows Noob screenshots, but nothing has been a showstopper for me yet. I will suggest if you aren't already comfortable with Windows Server 2012, you might want to spend some time learning your way around first to minimize frustration with old habits that don't work on the new interface. For example, one thing that took me some time was figuring out that installing the set of roles and features in PowerShell was failing on .NET, and that the fastest solution for the eval was to enable the "Specify settings for optional component installation and component repair" Group Policy setting.