****NOTE OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU5 is now shipped and this is an old article. http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/08/03/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu5-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx       The Cumulative Update...

Tim McFadden of Microsoft PFE has updated the scripts for his “ SCOM Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler 2.0 ” tool.  They now work with R2 and wont put the HealthService or HealthService Watcher into maintenance mode, as this is automatic in R2 and...

MMS 2010 was a blast as always.  We had some really good sessions on SCOM coming from the community and fellow MS PFE’s.  We also had a LOT of Service Manager sessions this year, with the long awaited RTM of Service Manager.  It is certainly...

I get asked this every year at MMS - “What should I do if I am completely new to SCOM?”   I wrote this article up a couple years ago in a forum, I have been meaning to publish it here so I can refer to it.   So you are completely new to SCOM...

Here is an interesting little concept of how to use OpsMgr. Because I have a lab, that is exposed to the internet over port 3389, I get a LOT of hacking attempts on this lab.  Mostly the source is from bots running on other compromised systems. ...

Something I wrote to get a report on tasks being run on the OpsDB, and their output: select tv.Name as TaskName, bme.fullname as ObjectName, jsv.SubmittedBy, jsv.TimeStarted, jsv.TimeFinished, jsv.Output, tv.Description as TaskDescription from JobStatusView...

This post is a collection of the most common issues and resolutions I see with the SCOM 2007 R2 Web Console:   Windows Auth on a non RMS.   The most common issue is typically where customers install the Web Console using Windows Authentication...