These days... it seems you cant really know and support a product well without keeping up on all the blogs surrounding it.  Finding and digesting this information, and staying up to date is daunting.  It is difficult to find time to go hit all...

Given the recent support of Server 2008 with an OpsMgr 2007 agent.... (see Announcing OpsMgr support for Windows Server 2008 )  We need a good way to determine if all of our Server 2008 machines have the required hot-fixes.   We can do this...

Do you want auditing information on how many alerts are being closed or modified by your OpsMgr users? You can use the following queries to get this information from the data warehouse, and I have attached some reports below as well: To get all...

I figured out why - and instead of just posting about the workaround... I thought I'd take a moment and post on the process I used to determine the how and the why: When you run the "Exchange Configuration Report" per the guide, you are supposed to...

Something I noticed today..... when you deploy a gateway server - the helper object oomads.msi was not copied to the local \ AgementManagement directory for agent push. This means, that if you have a DC in the untrusted forest, managed by a gateway...

Many times, we would like to collect information for reporting, or measure and alert on something.  Normally, we use Windows Performance Monitors to do this.  But, what do we use when a perfmon object/counter/instance doesn't exist?   This...

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This is just a quick example of using a WMI Event rule in OpsMgr. There are some kinds of events that are not easily captured by Perfmon or the Windows Event log.  For many things, we can use WMI and WMI Events.   For some solid background,...

When you create an Alert Description in OpsMgr 2007 for alerting rules and monitors.... you might have noticed there is no way to add a line break in between each parameter output you want... so the Alert Description is all jumbled together and hard to...