We often think of tuning OpsMgr by way of tuning “Alert Noise”…. by disabling rules that generate alerts that we don't care about, or modifying thresholds on monitors to make the alert more actionable for our specific environment. However – one area of...

This is something a LOT of people make mistakes on – so I wanted to write a post on the correct way to do this properly, using a very common target as an example. When we write a monitor for something like “Processor\% Processor Time\_Total” and target...

Was working with a customer on this one – figured it might help others. Saw a lot of these VERY SPECIFIC 29106 events on the RMS, specifically with the text:  System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less...

  When you open the Web Console – the default view will open to a “Monitoring Overview” pane.  This view, in very large environments, can take considerable time to finish loading, before you can select any other views.  Sometimes, loading...

If you cannot or will not upgrade to OpsMgr 2007 R2 anytime soon – then this hotfix is for you! Available at:   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971541 This updates OpsMgr 2007 SP1 to 6.0.6278.100.  This is a rollup covering many new issues...

If for some reason you cannot or will not upgrade to OpsMgr 2007 R2, then this update is for you! This Native MP replaces the old “ converted ” Exchange 2007 MP.  If you are running the old conversion MP then I STRONGLY suggest making the effort...

I have been seeing this question come up a lot lately – as customers try and create groups of their disks – in order to create overrides for “certain” disks.  So – I am creating this post to give some real world examples.   Well – I will start...

This is now available on the catalog. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/cc539535.aspx   Changes in this update: Support for monitoring Windows Server® 2008 R2 server operating systems as well as Windows® 7 client operating systems Support...

Here is a little tip if you find that your Windows Computer Groups (and state views scoped by groups) contain computers that should not be there.   Have you noticed that you have state views or Windows Computer Groups that contain servers that you...