In an aid to specifically resolve the issue http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936481/en-us (The installation of System Center Essentials 2007 fails during the Reporting part of Setup and the following information is logged: "The specified domain does not...

I mentioned in my release mail for the Reskit tools on the download site the the TechNet page still wasn't available. Well now it is http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb625978.aspx

The DNS MP for OpsMgr07 has released to the Web http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=633b718f-5fe8-47d5-a395-8203f8ec354f&DisplayLang=en Overview This MP is designed to be used for monitoring DNS 2000 or DNS 2003 events, collecting...

The DFS MP for OpsMgr07 has released to the Web http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7b4cf0fd-4ed8-48be-96bd-94246b040add&DisplayLang=en Overview The Distributed File System 2003 Management Pack monitors events placed in the Application...

KB941409 has been released : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941409/en-us This discusses and issue which has led to numerous calls to Microsoft CSS. Since the Operations Manager task subsystem relies upon the SQL Broker being enabled, any task will fail...

KB933616 has been released http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933616/en-us This discusses a hotfix which is now available for the Notification Workflow Solution accelerator for MOM 2005

Here's a command line line tool I've written using C# (requires .Net Framework 3.0) to put OpsMgr agents into maintenance mode similar to that using the PowerShell script written by Boris (see http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/08/06...

Anders has posted a communication on the new release schedule for Service Pack 1, including a public Release Candidate (RC) planned for early November and final RTM planned for mid-February 08. Please see News about Service Pack 1 which explains more...

The first set of resource kit tools for Operations Manager 2007 have been released to the download center. They will be soon referenced from the TechNet TechCenter for OpsMgr too ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/default.aspx ) All tools are...

There's a KB article on the way documenting this, together with some future documentation being put together which will cover this. A few things to cover off first. The SysLog module in OpsMgr07 together with that in MOM 2005 are hard coded to use UDP...

Four converted MP's have been released to the Web Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bf9bda7f-6c4c-4a49-89b8-43126a75dd4e&DisplayLang=en Windows Routing and Remote Access Server (RRAS...

KB938991 is available via the following link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938991 SYMPTOMS In Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, you view the Microsoft SQL Server state view for a computer that has SQL Server 2000 installed. The SQL Server...