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.

• Getting Started
  
  The Getting Started section contains the following documentation:
  
  
  • Operations Manager Key Concepts
    
    
  • What’s New in System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
    
    
  • Release Notes
    
    
• Supported Configurations for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager
  
  Supported Configurations lists the hardware and software requirements for installing Operations Manager.
  
  
• Deployment Guide for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager
  
  The pre-release version of the Deployment Guide contains instructions for upgrading an Operations Manager 2007 R2 management group to Operations Manager and installation procedures for some deployment scenarios. Additional content on planning your deployment and maintaining your Operations Manager infrastructure will be included in later releases.
  
  
• Operations Guide for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager
  
  The pre-release version of the Operations Guide includes some 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. Additional content will be included in later releases.
  
  
• Authoring Guide for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager
  
  The Author’s Guide explains how to create rules, monitors, and monitoring solutions.
  
  
• Report Authoring for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager
  
  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.
  
  
• Cmdlets in System Center 2012 - Operations Manager
  
  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.
  
  
• Operations Manager for System Center 2012 Privacy Statement
  
  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.
  
  
• System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Logo Certification Errors
  
  Logo Certification Errors describes items identified during the logo certification process.
  
  

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