Detailed below are some validation steps that should be completed before attempting to install Operations Manager 2007 Reporting. During this installation, you are prompted for two accounts: the Data Warehouse Write account and the Data Reader account...

The OpsMgr 2007 R2 Sizing Helper is an interactive document designed to assist you with planning & sizing deployments of Operations Manager 2007 R2. It helps you plan the correct amount of infrastructure needed for a new OpsMgr R2 deployment, removing...

OpsMgr Community, If you are receiving alerts “Performance Module could not find a performance counter” in the Operations Manager Console, please perform thefollowing steps to disable the rule via override. Note: When you run the Operations Console...

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...

The tool linked in this article allows you to view and configure the data warehouse data retention policies configured within your Operations Manager DW. Follow the instructions below to use. Prerequisites Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Operations...

We have created a new UI tool to make obtaining mass certificates easy. Here at OpsMgr, we understand the pain that you have to go through to configure certificate authentication to deploy non-domain joined agents. There are many things we've provided...

If you are deploying Ops Mgr on machines in untrusted domains or DMZs (anywhere outside of Kerberos trust), then you are going to need to leverage PKI and set up certificates on your boxes in order for authentication to work. The process of requesting...

This is a visual diagram of how computer discovery works in OpsMgr 2007. The list of prerequisites required to discover servers and install an agents are listed below as well: Description: RPC endpoint mapper Port number: 135 Protocol: TCP...

Every week I see one customer running into an issue where they either see the management servers or agents showing up as not monitored. While there a number of reasons why these roles may show up as being ‘not monitored’ I wanted to list out a couple...

As you’ve likely seen or heard, System Center Operations Manager 2012 contains significant enhancements in the ability to display data through the use of its new dashboard technologies. This post is the first in a series of dashboard-related posts...

Happy New Year!!! One of my colleagues had shared with me some detailed information on how Active Directory (AD) integration works (in particular how the service connection points (SCP) are created) and I thought it would be a good blog post for this...

We are still waiting for a hotfix from the Windows team. Unfortunately this has delayed us being able to support Windows Server 2008 for another month. The OpsMgr team is working with the Windows team on getting the necessary hotfixes ready for...

If you created overrides before you knew about storing overrides in your own Management Pack and need to remove a Management Pack, here's how you can delete a Management Pack that has a dependency on the Default Management Pack. Essentially, you need...

There have been various questions on how and when Operations Manager will provide monitoring support for Windows Server 2012 so I wanted to clarify things in this blog. Supported Configurations: The supported configurations for Operations Manager...

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...

While reports are a good way to get data specific for a certain time period, customers like you wanted a way a rich way to visualize data which you could then project and share with your organization. In OpsMgr 2012, we introduced the concept of Dashboards...

I am pleased to announced that the collaboration of the Visio and Operations Manager teams has shipped two deliverables for the Office 2010 wave immediately following last Friday’s Office 2010 RTM. This release consists of two downloads: 1. Visio...

In OpsMgr 2012, we provided users the ability to create customized dashboards using the OpsMgr 2012 console. The GTM.exe tool provided in this blog allows you to build off these dashboard investments, in particular we allow you to accomplish three specific...

By default, the Microsoft Exchange 2007 Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 will not automatically start monitoring of any Exchange 2007 Servers even if you have imported the Management Pack. This means that the servers won’t automatically show...

This is one of my favorite features/roles in OpsMgr 2007. When I refer to the Gateway Server I am referring to role in OpsMgr which can be used to monitor un-trusted domains/DMZs and not the spotted cow company that builds servers. If you are not leveraging...

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...

Below is the complete list of all the command line parameters for OpsMgr 2007 server roles including Audit Collection. And the command line parameters for upgrading to Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate (RC) Agent – (MOMAgent.msi) msiexec...

The Visio 2007 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 combines the strengths of two applications widely used in enterprise IT to simplify the creation of customized graphical dashboards showing the health of an environment. Examples of such...

I have attached the OpsMgr 2007 Database and Data Warehouse excel calculator I have been using the last couple of months to calculate what I think the size of customers databases would be. This tool is put together based on data we got from MSIT DB and...

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...