Summary - This is a update to a previously released article on troubleshooting failure to generate MOM reports. This gives excellent details on troubelshooting and solving issues around failure of the DTS task due to timeouts, transaction log and disk space exhaustion. Provides details around recovery of the DTS task through use of the /Latency switch on the MOM.Datawarehouse.DTSPackageGenerator.exe file if the DTS task has failed for a long period of time....

Summary - Previously managed MOM Agents start appearing in the Pending Actions node of the Administrator MMC. You are unable to discover new agents....

Summary - You receive "There is an error in XML document (line, position). ' ', hexadecimal value 0x01, is an invalid character. Line, position position" , attempting to generator HTML reports. A hotfix is available to solve this issue which is a requirement for support of MOM 2005 SP1 on SQL Server 2005 (including SP1) ...

KB913801 Summary - After upgrading a MOM 2005 SP1 database server to SQL Server 2005 you notice event and performance latency issues. A hotfix is required to correct this issue. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=913801 ...

Summary - Due to a misconfigured collection rule in the Availability Reporting Management Pack all System Event log ID 7036 service stop/start events are collected. This can cause processing issues for the ReliabilityAnalysisReporting task....

Also announced at MMS, the task-based command line shell for Windows a.k.a. Monad, was given its official name for release, Windows PowerShell. The RC1 build can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/download.mspx...

Announced at the Microsoft Management Summit, MOMv3 gets its official name "Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007". More information via http://www.microsoft.com/mom/evaluation/beta/opsmgroverview.mspx Register for the forthcoming public...

SQL Server 2005 is supported for new and upgrade installs of MOM 2005 SP1. The following hotfixes are publicly available for download and are required. Two (new binaries) require installation on Management Servers, the third (SQL table update) installation...