Ok, so you've installed the System Center Operations Manager 2012 Web-Console and want to access it from a Windows XP Client. Now when you try to access the console you get an error message: The procedure entry point LocaleNameToLCID could not be located...

IMPORTANT : Allways perform a FULL Backup of the databases before doing anything to it !!! ALSO : It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this - directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported...

Ran into a nice issue when actvating advanced network performance monitoring on a Cisco ASA firewall. In the Cisco system logs: "incoming SNMP request ( # bytes) from IP address IP_ADDRESS and PORT PORT_NUMBER Interface "inside" exceeds data buffer...

IMPORTANT : Allways perform a FULL Backup of the databases before doing anything to it !!! ALSO : It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this - directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported...

IMPORTANT : Allways perform a FULL Backup of the database before doing anything to it !!! ALSO : It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this - directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported...

Well first of all I really encourage you to upgrade to OM 2012 because it really brings a lot of features and fixes as well as cool integration with the other System Center 2012 products. Now thinking about a product which is very complex, also supports...

If you ever find yourself in the situation where you notice (Alerts in the console or Operations Manager event log on an agent) that an agent is not able to successfully execute some scripts you should check locally on the agent in the Operations Manager...

A lot of Service Manager environments ( 2010 or 2012 ) suffer from bad performance because of to many entity changes. Let me explain how this works: To best explain, we will take an out of the box relationship: System.WorkItemAffectedUser <RelationshipType...

Something strange happened recently where we tried to install OM 2012 Reporting, but that failed with the follwing error message logged into the installation log file: Warn: :Message:SRSPolicySetter SoapException Exception: System.Web.Services.Protocols...

In some environment, depending on the TimeZone settings - most important of all Daylight Saving, you may get this error message when you try to create a Calendar in the Service Manager 2012 Console which can also be seen in the Event Log: Application...

IMPORTANT : Allways perform a FULL Backup of the database before doing anything to it !!! ALSO : It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this - directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported...

IMPORTANT : Allways perform a FULL Backup of the database before doing anything to it !!! ALSO : It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this - directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported...

Well, so we need to create an extended Manual Activity Class/Form or a brand new custom Activity Class/Form and we want to have a new User Picker (or Single Instance Picker) on the Form to be able to select a User (or CI) which is somehow related to this...

IMPORTANT : Allways perform a FULL Backup of the database before doing anything to it !!! ALSO : It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this - directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported...

I am going to start by mentioning this great article which explains about the maximum size of the parameters we can use in Orchestrator: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2012/05/08/orchestrator-quick-tip-what-s-the-maximum-size-of-parameters...

This article discusses the installation on SP1 but it applies to Cumulative Updates as well. Well this is nice. I was just installing a new System Center 2012 full environment and wanted to use a SQL Cluster. After creating the cluster and installing...

IMPORTANT : Allways perform a FULL Backup of the databases before doing anything to it !!! There are some situations like event storms where you end up havin old entries in the OM 2007 Data Warehouse database. Old data as in data that is older than...

Well so now that System Center 2012 is out and rockin', I thought it was a good idea to start a blog where we can discuss different issues and situations we may end up when using the System Center Products. Here is a list of the official Blogs of...