I attempted to open the Health Explorer and received the following message. The state of this object is unavailable at this time OMG!  What to do? I tried opening the Operations Console with a clean cache. "C:\Program Files\System Center Operations...

We received an important reminder today from the product group about manually editing the database, and I wanted to stress the importance of this on their behalf.  The SCOM community and our customers need to know that doing so without the direct...

This procedure is fully documented on Technet, but it spans across two different articles, which might make it a little bit confusing putting together the order of execution.  This is the reason I wanted to share the plan I used which resulted in...

Sorry, but I had to remove the voting widget I had on the main page. It was causing some problems...kind of buggy. But I did take note that custom report authoring accounted for 44% of the votes! I'll keep that in mind for future posts and try to offer...

Let’s say you created a TCP Port monitor using the management pack template wizard and you want to generate a report about the connection times sampled from the collection rule that was created by the template wizard.  But, where is the data? Since...

Just wanted to send a quick note out to the community that we have published a CHM file for the E14 MP.  Nice! Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e3141f70-3552-4dd6-80ac-97ee9cda8a39

Let’s face it. Operations Manager collects a lot of data . If we cannot generate reports about this data in a way that will help us make decisions, then we’re missing out on a lot of the value SCOM has to offer. Most management packs do...

I wanted to start this year off right with wishes to everyone for a happy, healthy and prosperous year 2011! One thing I’d like to start doing more of this year is writing about some of the more common questions that come up in the TechNet Forums . ...