Michael wrote a post in August, about working with Alerts .  One of the key takeaways from that post, is that – for each application and for each application component – we have FOUR Alerting rules, that can be turned on or off from the APM Template...

So - now that the Release Candidate of System Center 2012 is out and the general availbility is fast approaching you may be starting to get more serious about getting up to speed on System Center 2012. Am I right? Don't even worry! We are here to help...

At the webcast this morning Satya Nadella, President of the Server and Tools Division, and Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Management and Security at Microsoft announced the availability of System Center 2012 RC and introduced the new licensing...

There is a really important web cast that is happening tomorrow that I wanted to remind you all about. You won't want to miss it. Here is the description of the event. Registration link is below. The definition, business value, and technology...

It has been a while since we posted some new information about APM in OpsMgr 2012. Michael wrote a post in August, about working with Alerts , which was following up on a couple of previous ones about how to get things running , how APM works , and how...

While reports are a good way to get data specific for a certain time period, customers like you wanted a way a rich way to visualize data which you could then project and share with your organization. In OpsMgr 2012, we introduced the concept of Dashboards...

Check out the Server and Cloud Platform Blog post by David Mills! See http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2011/11/10/system-center-operations-manager-2012-release-candidate-from-the-datacenter-to-the-cloud.aspx . Additional links: ...

Operations Manager 2012 network monitoring functions differently than it did in Operations Manager 2007. Monitoring for existing instances of network devices is backwards compatible, but no new devices can be added using the existing monitoring. These...

Continuing with our series of post on Dashboards and Widgets in System Center Operations Manager 2012, today I plan on focusing on configuring the new Alert Widget.

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OM Community, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 now supports SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 . Note: We will have the Supported Configuration posted in the next few weeks to make this more official, but feel free to go ahead and install it. Thanks! Nishtha...

Overview The Monitoring Pack for Active Directory (AD) provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of your Active Directory deployment. It monitors events that various Active Directory components and subsystems place in the Application, System...

In a previous post my friend and co-worker Dale introduced the new Dashboard capability in System Center Operations Manager 2012. He showed a screenshot of a dashboard containing a Performance Widget, but now I want to show you how to configure your own...

http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2011/10/04/new-functionality-in-the-windows-server-core-os-mp-version-6-0-6957-0.aspx Kevin Holman has already written up on this MP at http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/09/30/opsmgr...

All thanks to Kevin Holman -some issues being reported – at least there are workarounds http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/09/30/opsmgr-new-base-os-mp-6-0-6956-0-adds-cluster-shared-volume-monitoring-bpa-and-many-changes.aspx

Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=9296 Overview The Windows Server Operating System management pack consists of the following five management packs...

Setting up the Operations Manager Web Part Why would you want to do this? General Prerequisites Installing the Web Part Setting up a Target Application in the SharePoint Secure Store (Optional) Setting up the Web Part Environment ...

As you’ve likely seen or heard, System Center Operations Manager 2012 contains significant enhancements in the ability to display data through the use of its new dashboard technologies. This post is the first in a series of dashboard-related posts...

Congratulations to our 2 SCOM 2012 Beta Survey Sweepstakes winners: Vedran Matica and Silvio Di Benedetto They each won an XBox 360 and Kinect! T hank-you to everyone that completed surveys, your feedback will help us deliver a better product...

If you know Dan Rogers from the Operations Manager forums and industry events in the OM space, you'll want to subscribe to his new blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/manageability_aint_easy/

Virtualization Career Training On Tuesday, October 4 th Technical Evangelists Symon Perriman and Rick Claus are hosting an online conference on Virtualization Career Training with Microsoft Learning. This half day virtual event (8am – 11am PST...

In our documentation for authoring Operations Manager management packs, we regularly reference the Management Pack Development Kit , mainly the Module Type Reference that includes reference documentation for the modules that are included in the standard...

There are many questions on which components of network devices are monitored for System Center network monitoring. This post will hopefully clear up some of those questions as the post will cover what gets monitored and the conditions where the monitoring...

For the Operations Manager 2012 release, we have made some big changes in the setup and upgrade areas to make the deployment experience more simple, intuitive, and easy to use. In this post, I’m going to go through some of the major changes in the...

Now that you have had a chance to test SCOM 2012, please provide feedback! Usage Survey Allow about 20 minutes to complete this survey. Complete the survey and qualify to Win an Xbox & Kinect! Sweepstakes Official Rules

Our team has made a few posts around APM with Operations Manager 2012, how to get things running , how it works , and how to simulate errors for testing . Here I’m going to talk about the application centric alerts you will see in OM when you start...