November, 2007

The Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability Guide has been updated to include Audit Collection Services sizing information. The updated guide is available on TechNet ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735308.aspx ) for browsing...

Many people have asked about the OpsMgr 2007 supported cluster configurations and I hope this blog clarifies what we support and do not support. This list of supported cluster configurations will be updated in the SP1 supported configurations document...

I am pleased to announce that the System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) 2007 Release Candidate is now available. SCCP 2007 helps size and plan deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, with capacity planning models for Microsoft Office SharePoint...

With the help of one of my colleagues we have put together a remote agent prerequisite checker tool for OpsMgr 2007. This tool is the command line version of the MOMNetCheck tool we shipped with MOM 2005 resource kit. The new tool allows you to specify...

Check out Marius' blog on System Center Operations Manager 2007 http://blogs.msdn.com/mariussutara/default.aspx Sample: Parameter replacements (part 1) Management packs contain definitions of rules, monitors or composite module types where...

Targeting a computer group in Operations Manager 2007 produces unexpected results because the computer group target (that is, the class of objects that are computer groups), only exists on the root Management Server. Therefore, any rule that you target...

As many of you know we released an OpsMgr 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP) Release Candidate (RC) a couple of weeks ago. The product team fully supports inplace upgrades from this release candidate to the RTM version of the Service Pack. Another important upgrade...

I just put the finishing touches on the Key Concepts guide and it is posted on the download center, here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3a633532-1dde-49b6-930f-7df50b69b77b&displaylang=en It includes the following...

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...