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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 the display name in Object By Performance widget...

BELOW IS A LIST OF SESSIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE OPSMGR (SCOM) PRODUCT ENGINEERING TEAM AT MMS 2013 ( http://www.2013mms.com/ ) BELOW IS A LIST OF SESSIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE OPSMGR (SCOM) MVPs AND PARTNERS AT MMS 2013 Hope to see everyone at MMS.

So, the APM Wizard is great. We put a lot of effort in simplifying the most common scenario for configuration, as described in earlier posts such as this one http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/07/30/operations-manager-and-application-monitoring.aspx ; anyhow, there are additional settings...

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...

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...

Dear Users, This blog explains how to get the most of Web Application Availability Monitoring in SCOM 2012. This Monitoring allows you to observe the health of web application end points using your watcher nodes. End points which you can monitor could be URLs of a website, or methods of a web service...

Over the years, Boris has released a set of phenomenal tools, that saved lives of OpsMgr administrators quite some time in performing common OpsMgr tasks in OpsMgr 2007 and 2007 R2.. Anyhow, Boris has moved to another team within Microsoft. In order to not let those tools go to waste, since I know many...

In case you have missed those, Kristopher Bash, who works in the cross-platform team, has published a set of blog posts about the new cross-platforms templates and functionality in System Center 2012 – Operations Manager: http://operatingquadrant.com/2012/01/27/opsmgr-2012-unixlinux-authoring-templates...

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. Quoting that post: Alerting Rules...

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 to simulate errors for testing . Also Sergey has...

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 Soni | Program Manager

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...

The SCOM team is very happy to announce the release of Cumulative Update 5 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 . Cumulative Update 5 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues: Restart of non-Operations Manager services when the agent is updated. Updated ACS reports...

From KB 2590414 You are prompted for the latest version of the Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library management pack when you try to edit a new management pack in Operations Manager 2007 R2 When you try to edit a new management pack in the Authoring Console in Microsoft... When you try to edit a new management...

  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...

I am pleased to announce the release of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit. The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit includes three tools designed to help improve the Operations Manager Administrator experience. Included: Schedule...

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 noticed on the forums someone was having trouble using this with the R2 release.  Here is an updated version of the momclean tool to use for uninstalling OM2007R2 when traditional methods have failed.  Note: None of the command line parameters have changed.  All that has been...

It's not uncommon to want to monitor a perfmon counter like Logical Disk\% Free Space where there are multiple instances and you only want to be alerted if one instance goes below the threshold. Authors will typically try to do this through the UI building a monitor such as: You set the threshold...

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...

I’m very glad to announce that the 3 rd quarterly update for the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack is now available. You can download the MP from the Pinpoint catalog and it will be available shortly in the R2 web service catalog for download directly from your operations...

I wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know that the Windows Server OS MP has been updated and is available for download here . This is a small update in which we did two things. The first, and most important, is that we updated the script used in the “Discover Windows 2008 Servers” discovery...

The System Center Operations Manager team has released its second quarterly update of the OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP to the catalog. You can download the MP from this page . This package (Version 6.1.7599.0) is specific to OpsMgr 2007 R2 and will not import on product versions prior to that. We’ve packed a...

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...