System center advisor direct agent for non internet facing servers

Hi,
We are using system center advisor preview with direct agent.
Now we have few servers which are non internet facing. How to get these servers connected to advisor direct agent.
Thanks
Manish
Manish

Hi,
From my point of view, without internet they cannot communicate with System Center advisor.
Because Microsoft Azure Operational Insights relies on data that is moved to and from the cloud, if there is no internet connection, we will encounter below error:
Internet connection could not be established. Please check your proxy settings.
The links below should be helpful for you:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn884660.aspx
http://www.viridisit.se/managing-system-center-opsmgr/connect-servers-directly-azure-operational-insights/
Regards,
Yan Li
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Didn't mean to propose that MS love (yes we all know that you love MS Jason) post as an answer to your question.
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System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection for Mac

Has anyone had any experience instlling and using Microsoft's Endpoint for Mac?
I have tried it and am having some difficulty wihen using ARD to control systems that have Endpoint installed. Communications failures seem to occur and client systems quit responding to the ARD admin. Eventually the systems do seem to come back but it might take 15 or 20 minutes. When they have quite responding, the only way to get them back if you do not want to wait thm out is to force a "Power button 10 sec. reset"
The problem does not seem to be completely repeatable in that earlier in the day, I used this same manner of control on another room full of very similar systems and no problems took place. The problem first surfaced Friday afternoon shortly after Endpoint was installed. At that time 13 of 26 systems indicated "Communications Failure". But today, tin he morning things worked as expected but the afternoon resulted in 11 of 23 systems showing the "communications failure".
These clients are all iMac systems running 10.8.4 and have have permissions repairs done to them using ARD if they did not quit responding as mentioned above.
I have found almost no information on Endpoint with the Mac version. This version, for Mt. Lion seemed to have been released just this past May. Prior to that there was not a Mt. Lion version available.
Anyone have any experience with this Endpoint version for Mac Mt. Lion version?

Didn't mean to propose that MS love (yes we all know that you love MS Jason) post as an answer to your question.
Truth is SCEP may be good at how it works, it doesn't whine to users and it integrates to ConfigMgr. That's where it's good at. And I get Jason's point there, I'd just like to know what are those "other products" that haven't found the malware
when SCEP did? MS may gather telemetry, but so do all the other players.
There are several companies that do ONLY and ONLY AV products so they put their 100% effort in them, I don't think that AV is the business priority number 1 for MS.
Check this:
http://lifehacker.com/microsoft-admits-that-third-party-antivirus-is-more-eff-1441135677
And for your info Security Essentials uses the same AV engine that SCEP does.
If you want REAL protection, tested in the REAL world, I suggest you read some reviews of the products.
http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/corporate-user/windows-8/janfeb-2013/
http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php
--- ADVERT (I don't think it's illegal here, eh Jason?)
I'd go with F-Secure, it's not that expensive and you get some neat features like USB (or any other device for that matter) blocker. And yes, it can be configured to use individual USB sticks and so on..

Use one agent for two different managment servers

Hi ,
Can one agent be connected to two different managment server in different domains ,
or do i have to install two agents in the same server to connect to each managment server .
thanks

Can one agent be connected to two different managment server in different domains
No
do i have to install two agents in the same server to connect to each managment server Yes.

System center advisor direct agent for non internet facing servers

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