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Kevin Holman's System Center Blog
Guidance, Tuning and Known Issues for the Exchange 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007
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9 months ago
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Kevin Holman
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A new KB has just been posted with some really, really good information. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2592561 This is especially important for larger environments where you might have struggled with this MP. This KB article goes through the concepts...
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OpsMgr 2007 SP1 and R2: SQL 2005 service pack 4 is now supported
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9 months ago
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KB Article on a workaround to be able to apply SP4 here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2591380 Read about it at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/08/10/scom-2007-r2-and-sp1-now-supports-sql-server-2005-sp4.aspx
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OpsMgr 2012: What should the SPN’s look like?
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9 months ago
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SPN’s (Service Principal Names) settings are very similar in OpsMgr 2012 as they were in OpsMgr 2007. However, since the SDK (Data Access) service runs on ALL management servers now… the SPN’s for the SDK (DAS) account will be different now. If...
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A list of all possible security events in the Windows Security Event Log
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9 months ago
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This may be old news, but it is a handy reference for OpsMgr admins, when asked to monitor for specific events from security event logs: Windows Server 2003: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc163121.aspx Windows Server 2008: ...
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How to monitor SQL Agent jobs using the SQL Management Pack and OpsMgr
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9 months ago
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When you use Operations Manager to monitor your SQL servers using the SQL Server Management Pack, there are some options that you will need to think about up front. One of those areas is the SQL Agent, and SQL Agent jobs. I will cover...
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OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU5 rollup hotfix ships – and my experience installing it
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9 months ago
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The Cumulative Update 5 (CU5) for OpsMgr 2007 R2 has shipped The KB article describing the fixes, changes, and instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2495674 Get it from the download Center: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details...
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How to test fire ANY Windows Event on ANY server from ANY application
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9 months ago
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I have been meaning to blog about this for some time now. When creating management packs, or adding monitoring for specific events, it is very helpful to have tools to test fire these events. In the past, we would use built in tools like EventCreate...
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