(Or – How to patch a RMS Cluster in 14 easy steps)   I had a previous blog post on this subject that I have since taken down.  This has been a “fuzzy” area really since Microsoft shipped OpsMgr 2007, mostly just because there was no official guidelines or instructions on the “right” way to...

I had hell yesterday figuring out what was wrong with this. I built a new SQL 2005 cluster, on Server 2003x64, to install my SCOM R2 release candidate environment into.  I used iSCSI for my cluster, and my nodes are VM guests under Hyper-V, the same basic process that I documented here:  Setting...

Something I ran across with a customer. There aren’t many situations where service recoveries run automatically in Microsoft MP’s, but this is one case where they do.  The cluster service running is critical to a healthy cluster.  In the current cluster MP, the service monitor for the cluster...

For lab testing, we would often set up Microsoft Server 2003 2-node clusters, under virtual server 2005, in order to test OpsMgr configurations, such as clustered RMS, clustered databases, or just testing management packs on clustered applications like SQL and Exchange.  Virtual Server 2005 did...

There has always been a bit of confusion on when to run the DBCreateWizard.exe tool, or when to just use SetupOM.exe to create the Operational DB or Data Warehouse DB. Historically.... in MOM 2005, we used the DBcreate Wizard in order to create the Onepoint database on Active/Active clusters..... or...