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I have been talking to a number of people, both online as well as in person (at MMS, TechED and in other occasions) and one of the recurring questions I get, as people plan for their deployment of System Center 2012 – Operations Manager and want to use the APM feature, is “how much more space will I...

Attached is a PowerShell script that can be used to backup overrides and unsealed Management Packs from Operations Manager 2012, as well as OpsMgr 2007 R2 . This script is an update to the PS script that my friend Boris Y had written a while ago. The updates include… Runs on Windows PowerShell...

The OpsMgr 2012 Design Guide consists of sections that step you through the design for your Operations Manager 2012 implementation. This guide will help you understand the building-block-level components in Operations Manager 2012 by presenting summaries of these roles. It will help you to ask the right...

The OpsMgr 2012 Sizing Helper is an interactive document designed to assist you with planning & sizing deployments of System Center 2012 Operations Manager. It helps you plan the correct amount of infrastructure needed for a new OpsMgr 2012 deployment, removing the uncertainties in making IT hardware...

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 deployment experiences to help you better prepare...

OM Community, In this blog post, I will explain the changes made to the Operations Manager 2012 infrastructure topology. The purpose of this post is not to do a deep technical explanation on how some of these new features work but more of an overview around the new changes and how they may affect...

OM Community, System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 now supports SQL Server 2005 SP4 .  Note: We will have the Supported Configuration and a KB article posted in the next few weeks to make this more official, but feel free to go ahead and install...

  I have a quick update on the Schedule Maintenance Mode RESKIT Tool, also some information \ best practices. Best Practices: Do not go beyond 20 Jobs scheduled.  Anything over this will start to place too much load on your Root Management Server Do not schedule more then 20 items in one Job...

Our friends over on the System Center Service Manager team have spent a tremendous amount of time designing and building their management pack and now I'm very happy to say, it's released ! Darko Vukovic is a Program Manager on the SM team and he's posted a very useful accompanying set of best practices...

Shown below are snapshots from some of the tools available in the authoring resource kit which can be downloaded from here MP Best Practices Analyzer MP Spell Checker MP Visio Generator Workflow Simulator

I am very pleased to announce that the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit has RTW’d. It can be downloaded from : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9104af8b-ff87-45a1-81cd-b73e6f6b51f0&displaylang=en · The resource kit ships the following...

The OpsManJam site has posted an article by Matt Goedtel on methods of controlling the deployment of management packs .

The current PartnerPack Newsletter for 7/7/2009 has been added to the PartnerPack archive on the OpsManJam site. Chris

We have updated the mp guide tempate that you can use for writing your own mp guides for your custom mps. The content has been updated for several topics and new content was added for disabled monitors. This is available on the opsmanjam site in the doc library, or link directly to the doc here .

The Partner Pack Newsletters are being archived on the OpsManJam site and are accessible there.

In OM2007R2, we have introduced two new complex deployment scenarios we did not support in OM2007SP1. I am going to take a few minutes here and outline the new scenarios and procedures. Adding Clustered RMS to an Existing Deployment In OM2007SP1, clustering a Root Management Server (RMS) was only...

<Update> I have include information on how to upgrade from R2 RC to R2 RTM. Not much has changed when upgrading from Operations Manager 2007 SP1 to R2 or deploying a fresh installation of Operations Manager 2007 R2. However, I do want to take the opportunity to point out few of the changes....

Recently, I have seen a bunch of newsgroup questions on installing the Web Console component on Windows Server 2008. Please take a look at the following requirements to get up and running on Server 2008 You must add the Web Server (IIS) role and then install the following server role services...

(Updated PS script below which works on PowerShell V2 and above) We have had some customers ask us if there is a way to remove an agent managed computer using PowerShell from OpsMgr 2007 after the agent managed computer has been turned off. The scenario is that the machine that has an agent installed...

A few of us have been working with the Solutions Accelerator team and Pete Zerger to come up with an Infrastructure Planning Guide for OpsMgr 2007 which got published a couple of weeks ago . This document will lead readers through a sequence of core decision points to design an infrastructure for OpsMgr...

Hi all - An additional resource for Operations Manager 2007 MP Authors and IT Pro's is now live at OpsManJam . This site, sponsored by Microsoft, focuses on MP Authoring best practices and tutorials. There is deployment and administration content for the IT Pro, too. You can download content such as...

Recently I got some emails requesting for a ACS DB sizing calculator similar to what I had published for the OpsMgr Database and Data warehouse. While I was unable to put one for the ACS DB I did find that a couple of months ago Pete Zerger one of the OpsMgr MVPs put together an Audit Collection (ACS...

The performance team had a thread discussing IOPS requirement with a customer who had some really good questions so and I thought I would share the thread with you all. For sizing the Operations Manager Database and Data warehouse I would highly recommend trying out SCCP planning tool which will give...

Watch the attached video on how to cluster a Root Management Server and promote a Management Server to take the role of a Root Management Server . Starr and Myself did a talk at MMS 2008 in Las Vegas on how to build a resilient Operations Manager 2007 infrastructure. In this...

The Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 Security Hardening Guide is designed to provide you with essential information about how to further protect, or harden, your Operations Manager 2007 environment in conjunction with the Security Configuration Wizard (SCW). SCW is an attack-surface reduction tool for...