When you import the new Print Server Management Pack (Version 6.0.7004.0) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3290 you might notice that your OpsMgr database grows unexpected. While troubleshooting an unexpected database growing...

Typically when you start the OpsMgr console it will show you Display Strings according to your user setting. E.g. if you set your user specific regional settings to German all Display strings available in OpsMgr will be provided in your language. ...

When you try to run SCOM 2012 PowerShell command let Get-SCOMAgent it might run into the following error. PS D:\> Get-ScomAgent Get-SCOMAgent: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I figured out that this error was related to...

You are wondering why you see multiple Performance Counter form SDK Service/Client Connections on OpsMgr 2012 Console? In my test environment with just one single MS I would expect to see only one single entry in the performance view Client Connections...

If you want to use the Schedule Maintenance Mode tool from OpsMgr R2 Admin reskit ( Download ) you might run in trouble in case your system is running with non-english local settings. This happens if your configured locale doesn't use AM/PM time symbols...

One of my customers run into a critical issue after promoting another Management Server to RMS. The worse thing about this, you can't see any alert or any other hint that anything is wrong. The reason we could identify was a missing instance called "...

Some customers are asking for dynamic groups that contains all computer objects that are hosting specific instances. As Example: You need a dynamic group that contains all windows computers where a windows service "xyz" is installed. Such a containment...

Sometimes you might see a wrong status on Roll-up Monitors. Wrong state in this case means e.g. a Roll-up Monitor stays in a critical state even if all unit monitors below are in healthy state. There are different reasons when such a condition can occur...

There are a few very good explanations on blogs discussing the difficult adjustments of STT (self-tuning-thresholds) monitors like this http://opsmgrunleashed.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/opsmgr-by-example-configuring-baselines/ or http://blogs.technet.com...

Often I get asked from different customer how to develop specific reports in OpsMgr. The data stored in data warehouse contain more information than you might be aware of. I'll provide some of them as example to the community. Report: Agent with...

I explained the way how to change the behavior of performance graphs in my previous post . This might be not enough to statically change the behavior of the report. You can add the "Histogram" to the report parameters as well. After this change you...

Some of the built-in performance reports in OpsMgr show data by default as a histogram. For example: You open a common performance report delivered with the Windows Server 2008 Operating System management pack. The report name is " Performance History...