Here is a link to TechNet that outlines the key improvements and features included in Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb821996.aspx

The new Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Authoring Guide is now publicly available for download. The complete document in Microsoft Word format is available here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2...

Today the product group has announced that Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 has officially RTM'd and has been released to the web. You can download the upgrade package from here - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ede38d83...

As part of the continuing effort to focus technical readiness activities, Microsoft holds an internal employee event twice a year called TechReady with events focused on technical readiness. The objective of this event is to make sure we are provided...

You probably have noticed in the latest released of the Operations Manager 2007 Backup & Restore Guide, as well as the Operations Manager 2007 Operations Guide, that we have not provided a set of procedures for moving the Operations Manager Reporting...

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...

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...

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...

Today we formally announced the release of the System Center Suite, which includes the following products: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 System Center Operations Manager 2007 System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 System...

Earlier the Product Group released the Key Concepts Guide whitepaper that you can download from the Microsoft Download Center - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3a633532-1dde-49b6-930f-7df50b69b77b&displaylang=en . This...

The release candidate for Service Pack 1 for Operations Manager 2007 is ready for download from http://connect.microsoft.com/systemcenter . The high level themes of this service pack are: Address critical customer initiated issues including roll...

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...

The first wave of resource kit tools supporting System Center Operations Manager 2007 have been released to the download center on Microsoft.com. There are eight (8) tools that you can download today, and they are: Sample Vista Gadget - http://www...

So the other day I was presented with a question from my customer that I found interesting and did not have an immediate answer for. The question was, "why does Operations Manager 2007 create a certificate in the local store on an agent managed device...

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...

So I was working with Operations Manager 2007 in my lab environment here at home, and since I have a few Windows Vista clients I thought I would enable Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) on the Management Server. Well that process went fine and the...

Today the product group has released a draft document providing guidance in the recovery of a failed clustered Root Management Server (RMS) for Operations Manager 2007. It can be downloaded from the Operations Manager Product Team Blog - http://blogs...

One fine afternoon I was reviewing the Operations Manager 2007 Online Help on my Management Server to look into Custom Alert Fields. It inaccurately states: In the Global Management Group Settings - Alerts dialog box, click New . Click the Custom...

Last week I was suprised when I uncovered that the Active Directory Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 was missing several key Event/Alert rules related to the dependency on DNS. During the conversion process of the MOM 2005 ADMP to the OpsMgr...

I figured I would write a quick post regarding the ACS component in Operations Manager 2007, as I sometimes see people wonder why the reports are not available after they install the ACS Database and Collector component. The setup of the ACS Collector...

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...

On 6/29/2007 we released the highly sought after System Center Operations Manager 2007 Backup & Recovery Guide. This guide provides guidance on understanding how to compliment your current disaster recovery strategy in support of Operations Manager...

Operations Manager 2007 offers many options for High Availabilty over MOM 2005. The HA options officially supported by the Product Group are the following: Operational Database - single Active/Passive database cluster. Root Management Server...

Commonly I come across a scenario with customers where they focus on implementing MOM/OpsMgr, yet do not think about process in relation to the tools. A prime example with Operations Manager or MOM is with Management Packs and Release Management - Plan...

This week we released the Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack. This new management pack is built on the Windows Diagnostics Infrastructure in Windows Vista that detects, diagnoses and tries to resolve hardware and software problems. Information...