When we write rules and monitors to look at events in the event log.... typically the most common criteria are Event ID and Source.  We also have a list of other common event properties to choose from: However, this list doesn't always work. ...

I see this event a lot in customer environments.  I am not an expert on troubleshooting this here... but saw this post in the MS newsgroups and felt it was worth capturing.... My experience has been that it is MUCH more common to see these when there...

Often times.... I hear about reports not showing any data. Especially ad-hoc performance reports. When we run a report – we have to run the report against the same object type (class) that the data was collected from. The problem is – “how do you...

Do you ever wish you had a list of the rights needed to install OpsMgr on each server role ? Or what each service account needs for steady state? Or how about ongoing support... for your Admin group - to have enough rights in SQL to support OpsMgr? ...

This question comes up a lot.  The answer is really - not what maintenance you should be performing... but what maintenance you should be *excluding*.... or when.  Here is why: Most SQL DBA's will set up some pretty basic default maintenance...