As you deploy the latest OpsMgr R2 core MP updates version 6.1.7599.0 which I blogged about HERE , you will probably notice a new script error popping up in your environment: Alert Description: The process started at 10:36:57 AM failed to create System...

  You may notice that there are actions you might want to take on an agent, that are grayed out and not available in the console. There actions might include: Change Primary Management Server Repair Uninstall See the below image for an example:  ...

The Microsoft SQL Server management packs for 2005 and 2008 will discover and monitor SQL 2005 Express edition and the Windows Internal Database by default.  This is often not desired, and causes a lot of noise in the management group, because these...

Jimmy Harper has written some really cool reports for making ACS data more useful, and these can be used as templates for creating your own similar reports.  Get them here: http://blogs.technet.com/jimmyharper/archive/2009/12/10/some-custom-acs-reports...

Normally I don't spend a lot of time blogging on MP updates… unless they are a really big deal, but since the MP catalog is not working as well with the conversion to Pinpoint, I will be blogging on these until it gets fixed: at least until we add back...