A new DHCP Management Pack recently released, version 6.0.6709.0 on 7/9/2010.  One of my customers asked me to review this MP because of some questions he had about it.  There are some interesting things worthy of pointing out about this...

A very common customer scenario – is where all of a sudden you start getting these 31552 events on the RMS, every 10 minutes.  This drives a monitor state and generates an alert when the monitor goes red.   However – most of the time my experience...

There is a very recently discovered issue in the current ADMP (Version 6.0.7065.0).  The Event log rules in the Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.2008.Monitoring.mp don’t generate alerts as expected.  Jimmy Harper has created an “Addendum” MP which...

The time has come to move my Operations Database Server role to a new server in my lab.  Today – this is installed on a single server (named OMDB).  This server is running Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86, and SQL 2008 SP1 DB engine (32bit to match...

The time has come to move my Warehouse Database and OpsMgr Reporting Server role to a new server in my lab.  Today – both roles are installed on a single server (named OMDW).  This server is running Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86, and SQL 2008...

The SQL Management Pack has been updated.  This is the biggest update to the SQL MP, probably since we added support for SQL 2008. Version 6.1.314.36 brings many changes to the MP – so you should give careful consideration to this one.  It is...

This is an update, if you use the Microsoft branded OpsMgr R2 connectors.   KB Article:  http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2274165 Download location:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=87c27d91-4549-4169-a87a-ca88e4136e4f&displaylang...

In my previous post similar to this topic , we discussed how to check for the existence of a registry key or value, and alert/change state if it was missing. But what if you want to inspect the contents of a registry value for specific data? For instance...