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...

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...

The following hotfix has been released for Operations Manager 2007 SP1 containing four management pack updates. These correct a number of issues seen after SP1 upgrade. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951979/en-us for full details. These management...

New KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949969/en-us and hotfix   SYMPTOMS Consider the following scenario: • You use the Audit Collection Services (ACS) feature in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to collect security events from managed...

Sorry this is one I failed to blog which released while I was at MMS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950853/en-us .This hotfix is strongly  recommended for for those running the Exchange 2007 MP together with http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951979...

I thought I'd post the release notes for SP1 here. They will be available online (publication pending), but are also available with the ProductDocumentation folder of the 90-day eval version.   The following Release Notes describe important information...

Here's a small command line utility to configure/view agent proxying. A few useful things, 1) Remotable 2) View current agent proxy settings 3) Change proxy settings for agent in a group 4) Update agents based on flexible query expression Details from...

These will end up being published in a KB article shortly. But since I have them, they are worth publishing here. In addition to the notification properties you are able to add via Settings,Notification from the Administration space for Global notification...

The following Kb has been recently published and a hotfix is available. See  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951526   SYMPTOMS Consider the following scenario: •You import a management pack to monitor certain network devices in a Microsoft System...

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...

The Exchange 2003 Management Pack has been refreshed and is available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ff454f4-6d34-4fb9-9e0b-f5b68c6edc4f&DisplayLang=en   Overview The Exchange 2003 Management Pack...

The support of MOM 2005 Service Pack 1 on Windows Server 2008-based computers is announced. The KB article publication was a little delayed in it's release (out of my control - sorry). The KB article discussing MOM 2005 SP1 Win2k8 support is released...

Here are a couple a tidbits on command notification with Operations Manager 2007 I’ve seen people asking about recently. 1) I’m getting Alerts “Script or Executable was Dropped” when command notifications execute. How do I prevent it? What you’ll...

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...

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...

The following KB has recently been published http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951380 and a hotfix is available.   SYMPTOMS When you run a discovery operation in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1, and a cluster node is...

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...

If you're receiving alerts "The agent was unable to send data to the MOM Server at {MOM ServerFQDN}. The error code is 10054, An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host" this is typical of MOM Agents connected via a slow link to their...

I thought it may be a good idea to drop a copy of the Opsmgr SP1 Upgrade guide here for those planning deployments. Lots of information to take in and a few caveats besides.  This can be found on the SP1 RTM CD image in the ProductDocumentation folder...

Windows Server 2008 support has been announced. Please see the following resources for more information   The Knowledgebase article KB953141 announces our support of OpsMgr SP1 and SCE SP1 running on Windows Server 2008 The above article discusses...

An updated version of the ADMP (6.0.6278.3) has been released to the Web containing a number of fixes outlined below. This supercedes the version for OpsMgr07 RTM and the version supplied on the SP1 media. This MP contains an updated MP Guide too. Overview...

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...

THIS INFORMATION IS SUPERCEDED BY http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936220/ . Please use the KB article There is a Knowledgebase Article in the works for publication, but as I've seen some of you affected by this issue it's time to discuss here a workaround...

I've come across a number of cases in the past where Opsmgr/SCE server role installation may fail, or even post installation processes such as report deployment can fail with no indication as to why. Some symptoms you may see which may indicate the need...

KB939799 has been published discussing the problem with Private Bytes threshhold and Handle Count threshold ovrride issues (override is not applied correctly). A hotfix for this issue is now available which corrects this issue together with Healthservice...