David Dixon's Notes from the Field
A Microsoft Field Engineer's notes on all things System Center.
It’s Here! Cumulative Update 2 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
With all the announcements at MMS 2010 this year, this little update got buried in the mix, but it’s...
Author: dadixon Date: 05/01/2010
Agent Ransack gets a facelift and goes 64bit!
If you’ve ever suffered through searching a pile of logs for one text string, computer name, or...
Author: dadixon Date: 04/06/2010
OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP Version 6.1.7599.0 is now available.
The System Center Operations Manager team has released its second quarterly update of the OpsMgr...
Author: dadixon Date: 02/22/2010
New Management Pack for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2
With the release of SP2 for System Center Configuration Manager 2007, there’s been an update to the...
Author: dadixon Date: 10/30/2009
Updated System Center Operations Manager MP for Active Directory
The Active Directory Team has just released an updated Management Pack (version 6.0.7050.0) for...
Author: dadixon Date: 10/14/2009
Updated OpsMgr 2007 R2 Management Pack
The System Center Team has released an update to the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Management Pack to resolve...
Author: dadixon Date: 10/09/2009
Operations Manager 2007 R2 - Sizing Helper
The MOM Team Blog has a new tool for OpsMgr 2007 R2. “The OpsMgr 2007 R2 Sizing Helper is an...
Author: dadixon Date: 08/12/2009
Windows 7 Product Editions – Feature Table Comparison
Paul Thurrott from Winsupersite.com has published an awesome Feature Comparison Table for Windows 7....
Author: dadixon Date: 08/05/2009
The Best Freebie Add-on's for OpsMgr 2007
Kerrie Meyler of Network World has written a handy guide to the Best Freebie Add-on's for OpsMgr...
Author: dadixon Date: 07/12/2009
Using Hands Free Bluetooth to search the Web.
Let’s go completely off topic today and talk about Bing . What (you might ask) does Bing have to do...
Author: dadixon Date: 06/04/2009
SCCMWSUS - Streaming from an Upstream Server.
I’ve seen this question asked numerous times in newsgroups, customer mail, and blogs. Can a System...
Author: dadixon Date: 05/14/2009
Solving that pesky OpsMgr Agent stuck in Maintenance Mode
There are many good tools out there for putting OpsMgr agents into Maintenance Mode. However...
Author: dadixon Date: 05/14/2009
OpsMgr 2007 R2 backward compatibility to OpsMgr 2007 SP1
Microsoft recently announced the imminent availability of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2...
Author: dadixon Date: 05/14/2009
OpsMgr 2007 SP1 – Banish the Undead. How to remove “Not Monitored” dead agents.
If you’ve ever had a dead a System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Agent, you know that removing...
Author: dadixon Date: 05/14/2009
Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server 2008
The SQL Server Team has released guidance on Disk Partitioning Alignment Best Practices for SQL...
Author: dadixon Date: 05/09/2009
How to get started with Powershell.
My big question to most people I met at MMS 2009 (Microsoft Management Summit 2009) was “What are...
Author: dadixon Date: 05/02/2009
SCCM WSUS fails to sync or start.
Where's my access denied? Here is a cryptic issue where the WSUS service fails to sync or start. On...
Author: dadixon Date: 10/02/2008
Trusted Root Key errors on SMS 2003 and SCCM Clients
When a client's boundaries change suddenly, or when Site boundaries overlap between two sites in a...
Author: dadixon Date: 09/03/2008
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Agents write events to both System log and Operations Manager log.
Occasionally you may have an OpsMgr 2007 agent that log events to both the System log and the...
Author: dadixon Date: 08/08/2008
Using CleanMOM.exe against multiple Agents at once.
If you've ever had a need to run the CleanMOM.exe utility against several System Center Operations...
Author: dadixon Date: 04/28/2008