Updated 11/16/09 – I think this is pretty much resolve now – read below:   I have seen this at several customer sites, and even in my own lab.  You might find the following alerts (below) stemming from the DNS MP. To start, I would recommend...

In OpsMgr 2007, it is likely that your most common alert is not really a MP based alert from a technology management pack…. it could be a built-in alert that a script failed, or WMI could not be accessed.  This is because when WMI is broken on a...

**Updated 12-21-2009 This post is OLD, and the way this process works has changed. Please see the updated post at: http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2009/12/21/the-new-and-improved-guide-on-healthservice-restarts-aka-agents-bouncing-their-own...

There are several examples in blogs on how to create a generic text log rule to monitor for a local text file (Unicode, ASCII, or UTF8). This will be a step-by-step example of doing the same, however, using this to monitor the log file on a remote UNC...

Sometimes getting the web application recorder to capture a web session can be a little tricky.  I have blogged about some typical issues you might run into HERE   Something I noticed today, with R2: When running the R2 console on an x64 machine...

This is a little report I put together on request. This report will query the data warehouse, and show all the outages, and maintenance, for objects in specific groups. The outages look at all the “Failed to Connect to Computer” alerts, and list...

I have had a few requests now for this, so I thought I would take the time to write up the process.     Lets say I have three support levels of servers:   Level 1 – servers critical to business operations (ex: customer facing web applications...

I havent seen this discussed before – so I figured I would post this. In the OpsDB and DWDB – we keep some tables names MaintenanceMode and MaintenanceModeHistory. When you place an object into maintenance mode – we will log a row in the database for...

I recently rebuilt a POC environment all on Server 2008, and SQL 2008. Out of the box – the R2 install is a bit rocky – because of the Windows Firewall enabled on Server 2008 by default.   These required custom firewall rules are documented on the...