I’ve seen this question asked numerous times in newsgroups, customer mail, and blogs. Can a System Center Configuration Manager Software Update Point in one hierarchy sync from another as its “Upstream Server”. Here’s the usual Scenario – A customer has...

There are many good tools out there for putting OpsMgr agents into Maintenance Mode. However occasionally it can seem like getting the OpsMgr Agent out of maintenance mode can be an issue. There are several reasons for this: #1 When maintenance mode is...

Microsoft recently announced the imminent availability of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 here. With OpsMgr 2007 R2 RTM just weeks away, you may be wondering “what are the backward compatibility options of R2 and SP1”? What’s supported - OpsMgr...

If you’ve ever had a dead a System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Agent, you know that removing them from the console can be an issue. This can be a particular problem if you have agents that you cannot uninstall (the machines no longer exist), they...

The SQL Server Team has released guidance on Disk Partitioning Alignment Best Practices for SQL 2008. This was a topic discussed at length at the Microsoft Management Summit 2009 (MMS2009) in Las Vegas, and Best Practices for SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 have...

My big question to most people I met at MMS 2009 (Microsoft Management Summit 2009) was “What are you doing to ramp up on Powershell”? The most common answer: Nothing. Usually the reason given for this was “I don’t need Powershell because I can do so...