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Here’s another new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about the cause and resolution of an issue where you get event ID 29112 logged after upgrading to System Center 2012 Operations Manager: ===== Symptoms After Upgrading from System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 CU5 to System...

Operations Manager 2012 network monitoring functions differently than it did in Operations Manager 2007. Monitoring for existing instances of network devices is backwards compatible, but no new devices can be added using the existing monitoring. These changes made will require changes to Management Packs...

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, 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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

OpsMgr 2007 SP1 and SCE 2007 SP1 have recently announced support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in knowledge base article 953141 . Along with the release of this support statement, the first batch of management packs that provide monitoring for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Operating System have...

You want this information if you are going to use SCCM or some other product to deploy Ops Manager agents. So here is what happens in splash screen underneath (same happens in push-agent) 1. If MSXML 6.0 is not installed install it (You can get it from CD under msxml\<CPU arch of agent> dir...

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...

Last week the Operations Manager team attended the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 in Las Vegas and one of the big questions we got from almost all customers was when is the System Center Capacity tool going to be available? I glad to announce that the OpsMgr 2007 SCCP RTM model is now officially available...

On Feb 22nd we shipped the Service Pack 1 of OpsMgr 2007. We made one last minute change to one of the upgrade steps in the upgrade guide which did not make it to the upgrade documentation that was shipped with the SP1 bits. If users are upgrading from SP1 RC (6246) to SP1 RTM (6278) then will need to...

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 we are supporting which we have encourages more...

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-up of all hotfixes Make the product easier...

The Operations Manager team is making good progress on readying the first Service Pack for the Operations Manager 2007. The high level themes of this service pack are: · Address critical customer initiated issues including roll-up of all hotfixes · Make the product easier to support · Make the...

We have received a couple of customer inquires regarding the use of Operations Manger 2007 in a low-bandwidth scenario. These issues deal with a situation where the Management Server in one site (Site A) is separated from its agents in another site (Site B), and Sites A and B are separated by a low-bandwidth...

Scenario: The clustered Root Management Server goes down you need to promote another Management Server in the Management Group to become the Root Management Server and when the cluster comes back online you can re-promote the cluster. This was a disaster recovery scenario that was broken in OpsMgr...

Chis Fox has almost completed the Operations Manager 2007 Migration Guide. It should be out the week after next. Here is a preview of the TOC: Introduction to the Operations Manager 2007 Migration Guide MOM 2005 to Operations Manager 2007 Migration Overview Infrastructure Components...

I know we still haven't offically published any disaster recovery documentation but I hope the attached document gives you an idea of how you can recover from an Root Management Server on a cluster disaster scenario. We hope to have this offically published and supported soon. Note: We are working...

The official tool for capacity and sizing guidance for Operations Manager 2007 is System Center Capacity Planner, which is due out in the second half of calendar 2007. It is available now as a beta here . To download the beta, you will need a Windows Live ID or Passport Account. In the meantime, the...

Having trouble discovering computers using the OpsMgr 2007 Discovery Wizard? If you've ever tried to discovering a computer using our Discovery Wizard and the results were not what you expected (the computer failed to be discovered)... here are some great steps to get you started. Is the computer...

The MOM 2005 SP1 Agent Prerequisite Component for Windows XP Embedded installs the necessary components that support the MOM 2005 SP1 Agent on Windows XP Embedded. This allows you to then install the MOM 2005 SP1 Agent and monitor the health of Windows XP Embedded in the same way as you monitor the health...