This is a continuation of my previous post on determining which agents are missing a hot-fix: How do I know which hotfixes have been applied to which agents- I wrote up a report that allows you to paste in a KB article number into the report as a parameter...

          In OpsMgr 2007, when a agent experiences a heartbeat failure, several things happen.  There are diagnostics, and possibly recoveries that are run.  Alerts, and possibly notifications go out. But what happens...

Certain types of agents need the agent proxy setting enabled.  These are documented in various guides... such as Exchange Active Directory, Cluster nodes, etc... However, sometimes, we still get alerts that Agent Proxy needs to be enabled for a HealthService...

I am going to be publishing several reports over the next few months, that query the Operational Database instead of the Data warehouse.  We will use these reports for getting all sorts of administrative information... which will allow us to get...

The "AD Role Holders" report has some incorrect description information on how to run the report. If you follow the instructions... adding the "Active Directory Domain Controller Computer Role" you will get no data returned. This will be fixed in an upcoming...

Using notifications such as email, has proven to be somewhat difficult in OpsMgr .  I get questions from each and every customer I work with on this topic.... as most people never get these to work as they want, or expect, without fully understanding...

Keep this in mind when searching for an object when creating a report.  If you don't give very specific search criteria... or if you just select "Add Object" then select "Search" with no criteria.... the result set is limited...

When you apply a hot-fix to a RMS, or Management Server, or Gateway server... a couple things will happen.  First... it will update the server itself with whatever the hot-fix is supposed to fix... registry, DLL's, database updates, etc.  Next...

***UPDATE*** A new hotfix has been released, which is a simple updated management pack.... which fixes the Patchlist table to include all hotfixes, and cleans up the formatting. I recommend you get it and install it on your SP1 environments. http:...

Launch the System Center Operations Manager \ Command Shell: ▪get-managementpack | export-managementpack -path c:\backup   Also, for some advanced automation.... check out: http://www.systemcenterforum.org/automate-mp-export-for-disaster-recovery...