What's New in System Center 2012 R2 - Service Reporting

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Service Reporting, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator

Service Reporting is new in System Center 2012 R2, and its capabilities are outlined here. For details about known issues, read the Release Notes for System Center 2012 R2 - Service Reporting.

By using Service Reporting, hosting providers can retrieve computation resource usage and operating system inventory for tenants. Hosting providers can arrange with billing solution partners to use information from Service Reporting to account for expenses based on usage.

The setup program for Service Reporting installs the component and creates the Service Reporting data warehouse.

Service Reporting obtains computation resource usage and inventory data from System Center 2012 – Operations Manager and from Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server. After you run the setup program, you edit and run Windows PowerShell® scripts to configure Service Reporting to retrieve data from source systems.

Information about computation resource usage and operating system inventory is available in a Microsoft Excel report that you can view and update. The report’s data connection to the data cubes in the Service Reporting data warehouse provides the means to query for data in real time. Because the report uses data cubes, you can modify the report to display any fact, dimension, and measure that you want.

During Service Reporting setup, you can choose to enable Microsoft Update if you want to automatically update Service Reporting when an update is available.

Getting Started with Service Reporting
Service Reporting in System Center 2012 R2