File Name: Microsoft Windows Cluster System Center Operations Manager 2007 MP.msi Version: 6.0.6277.0 Date Published: 3/6/2008 Language: English Download Size: 4.3 MB http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AC7F42F5-33E9-453D-A923-171C8E1E8E55&displaylang...

Our evaluation upgrade strategy has changed from the RTM version of OpsMgr 2007 to the SP1 version. So in today blogs I wanted to share the various evaluation upgrade strategies customers have. General note for all upgrades: When you upgrade any evaluation...

Here is the next entry in the posts I’m migrating over. Again this intended to be a “snapshot in time” supplement to the Implementing System Center Operations Manager 2007 at Microsoft white paper. The Root Management Server (RMS) So what exactly...

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...

As part of SP1 we included the feature to allow reports to be published. This allows you to take a rendered report with all your parameters selected and publish it for your own and others to use. This process is detailed in the report authoring guide...

The report authoring guide for Operations Manager 2007 is now available for download. http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OpsMgr2007_RprtGuide.doc Thanks Daniel Savage

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...

If you don't already have an RSS feed to Brian's blog, take a moment to check it out. He's a Principal Consultant out of Long Beach, CA and has done some great work in the Authoring space for OpsMgr. His blog URL and BIO are posted below. I'm a Principle...

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...

I will be progressively moving these posts over from my previous blog from when I worked for Microsoft IT. The information is somewhat dated, but I didn't want to see the content disappear completely :). You can think of this as a “snapshot in time” supplement...

Anatomy of a Vista/Server 2008 event There are three types of Vista/Server 2008 events which are written to various channels in the event log. 1. The ‘pure’ Vista/Server 2008 event These events are logged using the new Vista/Server 2008 APIs...

One of the big issues we had in OpsMgr 2007 RTM was if you installed the Database and the Root Management Server(RMS) on a standalone server with the SDK and Config services running under a domain account users could not install the Web Console Server...

The attached Word 2007 file written by Daniel Savage contains information about data retention and grooming that many of you might find useful. Click the heading title to drill into the post and then a link to the attachment will appear.

What level of privileges are required to install the product? Someone recently asked a question regarding what level of privileges are required to install the product and later they asked me why the accounts had to be what they were. I thought I would...

The question has recently come up, what about password expiration used for Run As Account (and action account) credentials? If you are using Local System, there is no password to expire. If you specified a domain account, we have you covered (for the...

We got a query through the blog email about how to get started writing connectors and I've heard of a few other requests for this type of information. For starters, take a look at this MSDN topic on creating connectors: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us...

Walter Chomak is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft out of the Boston area and does some really great work with our OpsMgr customers. Check out his blog here: Everything OpsMgr 2007 http://wchomak.spaces.live.com/default.aspx

We got a question through the blog email about how to tell which version of Operations Manager was installed on a computer. This is easy to check, so I thought I'd throw up a quick tip about it. In the console, click Help -> About and take a...

A lot of good stuff is going on in Seattle these days, Seahawks have made it to the playoffs, we have actually been seeing some sunshine in month of January and Windows Server 2008 aka Longhorn is picking up a lot of good buzz at least that’s what I hear...

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...

Hi all - I am nearly complete with updating the How To Cluster the RMS for SP1 procedures as they will appear in the Deployment Guide. Here they are, minus a screen shot. These procedures will work for the RTM version as well, although you will need to...

We had an error in the readme that went out with the FRS management pack that says that Windows Server 2003 is not a supported platform. This is an error; we do support Windows Server 2003 with this management pack. We are currently repackaging the...

If you are like me and just itching to try and install OpsMgr 2007 DB and Reporting on Longhorn and cannot wait till SQL 2008 to install SQL on Longhorn as they do not support SQL 2005 on Longhorn you can try my HACK!! Yes, this is NOT supported by the...

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...

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...