Based off of a recognized demand, I developed a management pack that provides three key reports for Operators and Administrators to leverage. These reports were based off of queries developed by Kevin Holman and Jonathan Almquist and tuned to support...

Please Note: This blog has been updated to provide guidance on which settings are applicable to Operations Manager 2012. This blog post is based on questions that people who attended our MMS 2010 session BB23 – Operations Manager 2007 SQL Server...

It was discovered by some of my colleagues, that when they completed the steps to move the OperationsManager database from one SQL Server computer to another, several events are written to the Application Event Log. An example of those events is: Event...

This is an entry I have been meaning to write for a couple of weeks now. But I have been really busy and I finally found some free time to write to my hearts content. In a prior blog entry, I provided steps on importing the ACS Reports after you install...

Shortly after implementing Operations Manager 2007 and upgrading to RC Service Pack 1 in my customer's lab environment, I noticed the following errors in the Operations Manager Event Log on the RMS stating: Failed to deploy reporting component to the...

I have been monitoring some of the blogs lately in the management community and came across some entries around guiding customers with respect to properly configuring the Run As account for the Replication Monitoring Rule in the Active Directory Management...

Over the weekend I was able to make the time needed to wipe and load Windows 7 Beta, which I can say with much enthusiasm is stellar (really, I am not saying that because I work for Microsoft). Anywho, I installed the Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Operations...

I was recently e-mailed by a colleague regarding the maintenance mode PowerShell script that was originally released by Boris Yanushpolsky (found here ) that worked great for RTM/SP1, but was failing when executed on an OpsMgr 2007 R2 agent managed system...

When you launch the Operations Console on your workstation or even on the management server (or RMS for that matter), the data from the Operations Manager database is cached locally in the file "momcache.mdb." By default, the console will poll the SDK...

So I thought for my first blog posting, I would discuss how to install the MOM 2005 consoles (Administrator and Operator) on a Windows Vista client. Hmm, should be straight forward enough, no? Well unfortunately the MOM 2005 Setup prerequisite checker...

You probably have noticed that the MPViewer HTML exports for our management packs that were released “back in the day” have not been kept up to date, nor provided for new MP’s released in the library on the OpsManJam website.   Due to the busy...

Many people have encountered the unfortunate scenario of attempting to upgrade or install the Operations Manager 2012 Agent on a SharePoint Web server hosting the Service Manager Self-Service Portal.  The Windows Installer package for the agent installation...

So I was working with a customer the other day wrapping-up some final requirements they had for their MOM 2005 implementation, after being away for a couple of weeks. Due to some significant changes in their headcount and long-term organizational structure...

So I came across this a week or so ago but forgot to install and play with it until today. PowerGUI is a freeware product from Quest that provides an IDE for working with PowerShell on your systems, and has integration with Operations Manager 2007, in...

Sometimes working with Operations Manager Reporting and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services can be a bit frustrating or challenging because the error displayed are often ambiguous. Some common situations I have come across are the following (including...

So yesterday a question was presented internally between my colleagues and I with respect to a situation a colleague was facing. Suppose by chance you are installing the first management server, which happens to be the Root Management Server, in the management...

Here is another Excel spreadsheet from MPViewer that I edited to provide a detailed breakdown of all the Unit Monitors in the Windows DNS 2008  management pack.  While the attached spreadsheet is specific to Windows DNS 2008, it also applies...

One of the new features of R2 that hasn't received any attention yet (at least to my knowledge) is how we changed the functionality of Run As Profiles. Today in Operations Manager 2007, you associate a RunAs Account for a particular RunAs Profile on a...

Being Chris Fox is busy right now with authoring/updating docs for Operations Manager 2007 R2, I am going to post this guide on my blog until it is uploaded on the OpsManJam site. This document I authored, provides the following guidance: This document...

Today I have updated the Deployment Guide for Operations Manager 2007 Reporting on Windows Server 2008. This was due to some confusion from those who downloaded the doc and were attempting to setup this configuration in their environment. I received a...

I just completed the deployment guide for this custom management pack that Walter and I have been working on. It is now ready for you to download and evaluate. Description : This management pack provides performance views and dashboards to present...

The latest Active Directory management pack deployment guide has a small section entitled "Enabling or Disabling Performance Data for Reports" and it was generating some good dialog internally between some colleagues and the product group. This section...

So I have finally found some free time to devote to updating my blog this evening. Today as I was giving a presentation at my customer regarding Management Pack Lifecycle Management, they approached me with some good questions on the topic. Specifically...

As promised and avaialble for download, here is the Excel spreadsheet from MPViewe that I edited to provide a breakdown of all the Unit Monitors in the Active Directory management pack. While the attached spreadsheet is specific to Active Directory version...

A new version of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Backup and Restore Guide has been released to web. In this updated version, we provide procedures for moving the OperationsManagerDW (Data Warehouse) and the OperationsManagerACS (Audit Collection...