The System Center Operations Manager 2007 administrator console contains a settings dialog for Alert resolution states and auto-resolve settings which is not present in System Center Essentials 2007. The console dialog was removed from Essentials to reduce...

The documentation for this is yet to be published. Since I configured this recently and it's fresh in my mind I thought I'd commit to blog for posterity. Let me know if you found it useful and specifically if you did use the steps and found they need...

Well it's easy enough to do in PowerShell but there are a few caveats involved. I'm running System Center Essentials, I don't have Powershell. Or, I'm sitting at my desk wanting to examine the MP's on my fancy new Vista OS; do I really have to walk all...

If it's not necessary to use a Gateway server in a situation where mutual authentication is not possible, for instance a small number of agents in an untrusted domain, DMZ or workgroup, the agents can be configured to use certificate based authentication...

KB934756 ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934756 ) has been released INTRODUCTION This article describes how to test the notification settings after you configure e-mail notifications in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. MORE INFORMATION...

KB is forthcoming on this issue. If you receive the above prereq error when running the Operations Manager 2007 Prerequisite checker you are likely seeing the issue documented in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915786 (Authorization Manager-enabled applications...

KB934760 ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934760 ) has been released SYMPTOMS When you try to install a management agent on a remote computer in Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007, you receive the following error message in the Agent...

The Operations Manager 2007 authoring console is currently still in beta and is available from http://connect.microsoft.com via the System Center Operations and Service Management connection. The help file for the Authoring console, which discusses MP...

This is currently a known issue. The Reporting install will roll back when installed in a disjointed namespace. The symptoms can be the same as those for http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936219 (Error message when you try to install System Center Operations...

The Operations Manager 2007 180-day evaluation version downloadable from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/eval/opsmgr/default.mspx can be upgraded to the full volume licensed edition without the necessity of installing new binaries. In order...

KB934441 has been released http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934441 If you have multiple management servers with agents configured for failover and one of the managment server goes off-line agents may be refused a connection to the failover management...

This issue occurs when a new Web Page View is created in the Operations Manager 2007 console. This view is not supported in the Web console which causes this error to be displayed. Microsoft are currently working on a fix for this issue. I'll blog details...

The Operations Manager 2007 Security Guide has been released to accompany the other documentation released so far. See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852ed79859&DisplayLang=en There is an error in...

An update has been released to the backward compatibility MP's for Operations Manager 2007. These MP's are installed by default during a Management Server install and to update them you will need to import the new MP's extracted by this MSI. The updates...

Seeing these symptoms? Even after rebooting and waiting a long period of time for availability data to be collected from servers, they still don't appear on reports OR Servers appear on reports but their availability metrics appear static between report...

KB934757 ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934757 ) has been released SYMPTOMS When you open the Web Application Editor - ApplicationName dialog box, and then you click Start capture to monitor a Web browser session in Microsoft Systems Center Operations...

The WSUS 3.0 MP for MOM 2005 has been released http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b9eb24e0-93df-430e-9ea7-e46f09a6ab80&DisplayLang=en Overview The WSUS 3.0 Management Pack helps you diagnose and resolve the issues reported as...

For those with a long memory, you may recall the Server Base OS MP 05.0.3500.0000 was withdrawn last October a short time after its release, due to technical issues. The most prevelent issue was that MOM agents could fail to restart on boot. See my earlier...

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 has released to the Microsoft download site and is available via the following link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=df07094c-59e9-4ce6...

The Vista monitoring MP is now available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a2d42208-d4fd-46a6-9e8d-0ff7694b5634&DisplayLang=en Overview The Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack is built on the Windows Diagnostics...

System Center Essentials 2007, AKA SCE has RTM'ed. The English version is currently available for evaluation via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sce/2007/evaluate/default.mspx with other languages releasing over the coming months. See the following site...

KB937050 will be available via the following link shortly http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937050 Symptoms Users are assigned a specific console scope in Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. These users open the MOM 2005 Administrator console. However...

KB937292 has now been published http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937292 SYMPTOMS When you run the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Prerequisite Viewer for the Server component, the prerequisite check returns the following failure status...

KB937826 is in the process of publication and should be available via the following link http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937826 Introduction You can upgrade the 180-day evaluation version of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to the full...

As previously mentioned on my blog that a KB was forthcoming. KB936579 is now published http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936579/en-us