SC 2012 Operations Manager – X-Plat Permissions & sudo

David Allen MVP — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:51:54 GMT

Within SC2012 Operations Manager it is now possible to use sudo elevation for agent push, upgrades etc, and for RunAs accounts. With this addition though, you will probably get more questions for the your UNIX/Linux admins about configuring the accounts to perform monitoring and agent tasks with the minimum amount of permissions. Well, MS already has a TechNet Wiki article available to provide this information, just follow the link below.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7375.configuring-sudo-elevation-for-unix-and-linux-monitoring-with-system-center-2012-operations-manager.aspx

If you perform X-Plat monitoring, I would recommend looking at this article as contains samples for all the supported platforms.

David

IE6 Vulnerability - Customer Ready Guidelines for Security Advisory 979352 Updated

David Allen MVP — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:01:00 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Microsoft is aware of public exploit code released that impacts customers using Internet Explorer 6. Customers using Internet Explorer 8 are not affected by currently known attacks and exploits due to the improved security protections in IE8. To help protect our customers, we recommend that all customers immediately upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. Customers should also consider applying the workarounds and mitigations provided in the Security Advisory.

Internet Explorer 8 is available at http://www.microsoft.com/ie

Microsoft teams are continuing to work around the clock on an update and we will take appropriate action to protect customers when the update has met the quality bar for broad distribution. That may include releasing the update out-of-band.

Updates to this issue will be provided via the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog at http://blogs.microsoft.com/msrc
Resources related to this alert

·        Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on these bulletins:
Title: Information about Microsoft January (OOB) Security Bulletin (Level 200)
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time (U.S. & Canada).
URL: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032440627

·        Security Advisory 979352 – Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/979352.mspx

·        Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 979352: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979352

·        Issue Landing Page: http://www.microsoft.com/security/updates/ie.aspx

·        Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/

·        Microsoft Security Research & Defense (SRD) Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/srd/

·        Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/

·        Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/

David Allen - Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP : Security

SC 2012 Operations Manager – X-Plat Permissions & sudo

IE6 Vulnerability - Customer Ready Guidelines for Security Advisory 979352 Updated