Richard Pesenko, Microsoft Senior Support Escalation Engineer on our Operations Manager support team, has a new video out that walks you all through visualizing alert data in OpsMgr 2012. It’s only 10 minutes long so it’s a great way to quickly become...

Arun Kumar   | Senior Support Engineer When viewing the Local Resolution Time monitor in the DNS Management Pack for Operations Manager, you may notice that the response time reported does not reflect your own real world results. For example, I recently...

We are excited to announce that the Exchange team has released the Exchange 2013 Management Pack. You can find the Management Pack here and the guide here . The guide walks through the details of deploying, configuring and using the Management Pack. ...

Vasanth Kumar | Support Engineer Hey there again! This is Vasanth from the Operations Manager team and today I have a quick tip for you all that I found while working on a recent issue. When using Systems Center Operations Manager (any version of...

Just wanted to let you know about a new Knowledge Base article we published today, This one talks about an issue where System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 agent computers that utilize NIC teaming may not be discovered and log the following errors...

Solution – The AWS Management Pack for Operations Manager Whether they are on-premises or in the AWS cloud, this SCOM Management Pack (MP) allows organizations running their Microsoft-based workloads at AWS to monitor their AWS resources directly in the...

Our Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson recently started blogging on TechNet. He covers various topics such as Private Cloud and Product Features released in Windows Server and the System Center suite of products. His most recent blog post talks...

Satish Phatge | Senior Support Engineer Here’s a quick tip that might help you out when upgrading to System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012) Service Pack 1 (SP1). When performing an upgrade to OpsMgr 2012 SP1, the upgrade process fails with...

Just a reminder that we rescheduled the Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series session on Using Visual Studio Authoring Extensions to tomorrow at 8:00 Pacific time.  Please join us for this 300 level session where MVP David Allen will wow...

A new set of language packs for the management pack for Windows Server Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) has been released. Overview This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services...

We just published a new KB article that discusses fixes and updates recommended for Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager Agent computers. You can find the complete article and get all the details here: KB2843219 - System Center 2012 Operations...

This is a post that I just put up on the System Center blog, but I also wanted to post it here for better visibility because one of the topics this week is on using Operations Manager to provide data for CIO scorecards.  This session will be presented...

Just wanted to let you know about a new KB article we published today. This one is an article for Operations Manager that discusses an issue where running reports using the Operations Manager console fails with a System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException error...

One of the most useful health-related services offered by ASP.NET is the Web Events feature. By modifying the Web.config file, you can use the health monitoring system to log unhandled exceptions, expired forms, authentication tickets, and any other data...

With the latest update rollup we resolved 2 major user experience issues customers have given us feedback on. 1. Hostname\Display Name in “Object by Performance” widget is empty I am happy to announce that we addressed the issue where...

Hi, we are excited to announce the preview of the Management Pack for Windows Azure Fabric. This Management Pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of Azure fabric resources that are running on Windows Azure. You will find the...

Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available and includes the following updates for OpsMgr 2012 SP1: Operations Manager Issue 1: The Web Console performance is very poor when a view is opened for the first time...

Just a quick note to let you know about a new KB article we published. This one describes an issue where opening the Management Server view in the Administrator pane of the OpsMgr 2012 console generates the following error: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException...

Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 is now available and it includes a few fixes for OpsMgr 2012, including: Issue 1: The Solaris agent could run out of file descriptors when many multi-version file systems (MVFS) are mounted. Issue 2: Logical and...

Today we have BIG NEWS for both Advisor and Operations Manager users! Our team is proud to announce the release of the System Center Advisor Connector for Operations Manager Preview ! This connector enables Advisor to be an attached service to your...

The Microsoft Management Summit will take place next week in Las Vegas, and with it will come several exciting Advisor sessions and demos! Be sure to attend Brad Anderson 's Monday keynote, Cloud Optimize Your Business with Microsoft Management Solutions...

You will see how System Center Operations Manager works tightly with Visual Studio to enable collaboration between development and operations teams. See how understanding and using the DevOps approach speeds problem resolution and deployment times through...

Join us at MMS2013 to learn about using Operations Manager 2012 SP1 and SC Advisor to best manage your SQL Servers. You will see how SQL Server monitoring experience has been significantly improved with new features of SQL Server MP and Proactive Monitoring...

Dear users! Just last week we announced commercial availability of System Center Global Service Monitor (GSM). GSM provides capability to monitor externally facing web sites and web services from geo-distributed locations. System Center customers...

Have a question on Management Packs, Network Monitoring, Storage Monitoring, Application Monitoring, DevOps, GSM, High Availability or something else Operations Manager related then this is the session for you. Join Anna Timasheva, Daniel Savage, Daniele...