In additional to some guidance I posted here about the DPM 2010 management pack, I decided to map out the service and health models as well.  I got pictures!   Service Model   Health Model

Download the management pack I recently had the opportunity to sit down for a conversation with the DPM 2010 management pack team. I was elated with some of the new features and the approach they took in designing this management pack. This one is definitely...

We posted a great document on OpsManJam a couple years ago entitled “Regular Expression Support in SCOM 2007”. I believe this document was originally authored by our very own Dan Rogers. I have referenced this document more times than I can...

I took some time today to find something new to add to my Command Shell examples table.  I thought this one was kind of neat.  For those of you who like to use the CLI, this is an alternative to get quick info as opposed to using the console...

The main purpose of this type of group is to enable us to create subscriptions that will not only send alerts generated by a computer, but also Health Service Heartbeat Failure alerts generated by those computers. I know this has been posted a few times...

Occasionally an Operations Manager 2007 management group might need to be completely recovered for some reason.   This would be required in the case of unrecoverable systems due to database corruption, or complete loss of database and/or other key...

This post isn’t directly related to Operations Manager, but I thought it might be useful to those running lab environments and looking for ways to optimize their hardware resources.  Windows 2008 Core is one way to reduce the footprint of the OS...

This is one way to check whether a particular agent is communicating with the management group.  Just replace FQDN with the agent you want to test, and this will return the last sampled DateTime stamp.  We will also see when the data was actually...