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If you have tried editing knowledge in OpsMgr 2012 with Office 2010 you are likely to have run into this error “Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word” or as shown in the image below. Working with our support team (Mitch L, Stephen R) we have a temporary work...

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...

Quick heads up! The Supported Configurations Statement for OM2007R2 has been updated to support SQL Server 2008 SP2 .  We now support the following roles on SQL Server SP2: Operations Manager database Data Warehouse database Audit Collections database Reporting* *Note: When using SQL 2008 Service...

I am pleased to announce support of SQL 2008 R2 with System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 databases.  Support is divide into two phase so please read KB2425714 for details. Phase 1: Clean install of OM2007R2 on SQL 2008 R2.  Take a look at the KB to get OM2007R2 installed on a SQL 2008...

We've just posted a new guide to the Operations Manager library - the Reporting Guide . This guide consolidates all reporting guidance (with the exception of report authoring) in one place. This guide also includes reporting scenarios to help you create specific reports to meet your business needs...

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

Recently, I have had a bunch for requests for more detail on installing a Windows Agent or upgrading a Agent from the command line. So here you go!! Use Case Command Fresh Install and set specific action account msiexec.exe /i \\path\Directory\MOMAgent.msi /qn /l*v %temp%\MOMAgentinstall.log USE_SETTINGS_FROM_AD...

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 .

<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....

To learn more about the Visio Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 , check out the video on TechNet Edge at http://edge.technet.com/Media/Visio-Integration-with-Operations-Manager-R2/ .

I have recently seen many different uses of the agent "Repair…" action when it comes to agent install and upgrade. I have put together the following information with the help of the setup team to guide you on the uses of the repair action. Summary: When running agent repair the system basically...

Update: the final Visio 2007 Add-in is now available - these links to the beta are obsolete. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2009/07/31/visio-2007-add-in-for-operations-manager-2007-r2-released.aspx. The Visio Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 combines the strengths...

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...

A new paper has been posted on the OpsManJam site on the pre-requisites for SQL 2005 Reporting on Windows Server 2008.

Covering support and news on SMS, MOM, Configuration Manager, Operations Manager and System Center Essentials. http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/default.aspx

The OpsManJam site has added a MPViewer dump folder in the library. While we are just starting out, what you will find here are MPViewer (thanks Boris) extractions of all the Microsoft published management packs as HTML pages. You can use this as a reference for what is in management packs. We will be...

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 - Today's tip comes from Robb Dilallo, via Tim Kremer. Robb found that it was frustrating to try to edit an exported custom management pack because he couldn't access the sealed, dependent management pack. He shared the following steps to create a "management pack development environment":...

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 we have been receiving some questions on the meaning of the 'grayed-out, Healthy' agent status icon (see picture below). You will see this in the Monitoring space in the Computers view and the Discovered Inventory view and the Operations Manager ==> Agent ==> Agent Health State view...

The Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack tracks memory usage of the MonitoringHost.exe process via the private bytes counter. By default, the agent will be automatically restarted if memory usage for MonitoringHost.exe is above 100MB. On large Exchange 2007 systems, this threshold may be too low....

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...