Many people have asked about the OpsMgr 2007 supported cluster configurations and I hope this blog clarifies what we support and do not support. This list of supported cluster configurations will be updated in the SP1 supported configurations document...

I am pleased to announce that the System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) 2007 Release Candidate is now available. SCCP 2007 helps size and plan deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, with capacity planning models for Microsoft Office SharePoint...

With the help of one of my colleagues we have put together a remote agent prerequisite checker tool for OpsMgr 2007. This tool is the command line version of the MOMNetCheck tool we shipped with MOM 2005 resource kit. The new tool allows you to specify...

Check out Marius' blog on System Center Operations Manager 2007 http://blogs.msdn.com/mariussutara/default.aspx Sample: Parameter replacements (part 1) Management packs contain definitions of rules, monitors or composite module types where...

Targeting a computer group in Operations Manager 2007 produces unexpected results because the computer group target (that is, the class of objects that are computer groups), only exists on the root Management Server. Therefore, any rule that you target...

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...

I just put the finishing touches on the Key Concepts guide and it is posted on the download center, here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3a633532-1dde-49b6-930f-7df50b69b77b&displaylang=en It includes the following...

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...

Although Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and Operations Manager 2007 both have the concept of targeting, the way targeting works in Operations Manager 2007 has completely changed from the previous version. To effectively deploy new rules and monitors...

A couple of people asked me questions on how data flowed in OpsMgr 2007 this weekend so I thought this would be a good topic for this week’s blog. Unfortunately this is not documented anywhere. Data Type Flow: Events/Perf/State data is sent from...

Network Bandwidth Utilization for the various OpsMgr 2007 Roles I recently started owning performance and scale for OpsMgr and it is definitely one of the most interesting and challenging areas I have ever worked on. I know the first question that...

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...

The Microsoft Learning team is developing certifications for Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) and Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM ). Live Meetings discussing them are scheduled for late October. Check out Trika's blog at...

Some customers have asked how they can obtain a certificate for use with Operations Manager 2007 when are using a Certificate Authority (CA) other than Certificate Services on Windows Server. Use the template below: [Version] Signature= "$Windows...

In the last couple of years, virtualization technology has become the “hot thing” in the IT management space because it is seen as reducing overall IT costs which is every CTO’s dream. And the fact that you create backups of your environments is a life...

New scripts and tools are available for Operations Manager! You can now download the following tools from TechNet: Active Directory Integration Script A script that enables you to extract a list of computer names from your custom SQL Server database...

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 ...

Diagnostic and recovery actions allow you to run a command or script every time a particular monitor changes from a healthy (green) state to a warning state (yellow) or a critical state (red). To begin creating a diagnostic or recovery action, right click...

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...

I just realized that we had not created a KB article for this issue so I thought I would blog about this issue while the KB article is in the process of being published. Issue: If you install reporting and then install a secondary MS then it will not...

There's been some confusion about the concept of "targets" in Operations Manager 2007. If you're familiar with object-oriented modeling or programming, you can think of a target as a class. In more general terms, targets are how you tell Operations Manager...

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...

Last week Jonobie Ford blogged about ways to pull out monitors and rules. If you’re interested in performance rules and default thresholds associated in a Management Pack (Base OS, IIS and SQL) you should check out blog updates that Boris Yanushpolsky...

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...

I am in the process of updating the Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability white paper to include ACS sizing guidance. When completed in a couple weeks, it will be posted to the Download Center ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...