With all the announcements at MMS 2010 this year, this little update got buried in the mix, but it’s out now! The Cumulative Update 2 for SCOM 2007 R2 was released on 4/30/2010. It is a fully cumulative update, in that it includes all updates in Cumulative update 1, check the release notes for details...

If you’ve ever suffered through searching a pile of logs for one text string, computer name, or error code, then you probably already know the joy that is Agent Ransack . If you don’t know Agent Ransack already, then get to know it, now! The latest version adds great new features like Boolean expressions...

The System Center Operations Manager team has released its second quarterly update of the OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP to the catalog. You can download the MP from this page . This package (Version 6.1.7599.0) is specific to OpsMgr 2007 R2 and will not import on product versions prior to that. Identify data volume...

With the release of SP2 for System Center Configuration Manager 2007, there’s been an update to the management pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Here’s the feature summary from the product team - Feature Summary The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack for Operations...

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 complete there can be a delay of up to 5 minutes...

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 much with Visual Basic”… and that’s true. But that...

Occasionally you may have an OpsMgr 2007 agent that log events to both the System log and the Operations Manager log repeatedly. This usually happens after agent install, and when the server has been online for many days and not rebooted. You may also notice that the MOMlog.evt does not get created correctly...

If you've ever had a need to run the CleanMOM.exe utility against several System Center Operations Manager 2007 Agents at once, you've probably been asked "Isn't there an easier way to do this?" Of course there is the Uninstall-Agent powershell cmd-let. But that too can be awkward when trying to target...