Check out the newly updated MOM 2005 resource kit. This was just recently released with improved support for MOM 2005 Service Pack 1. This is full of very useful tools for MOM users, such as management pack tools, product connectors, powerful troubleshooting...

It's that time of year again! The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) will be held in San Diego this year for a change. If you register before March 6 you can get a $300 early bird discount. There are going to be a ton of exciting new demos and product...

MOM 2005 is featured in a new Harrison Ford movie that recently came out called Firewall. While I can't say much for the movie itself, it was cool to see MOM in action on the big screen. You can clearly see MOM running on a second monitor in Harrison...

The MOM 2005 Summary Reporting Pack (SRP) extends the MOM data warehouse to provide long term reports on performance metrics and alerts based on weekly and daily summarization of data. Key reports include Exchange resource and protocol utilization, AD...

Here's a tip to help searching for MOM information at the microsoft.com sites. For instance, from search.msn.com , if you want to find information MOM and cluster support, you can use the following handy searches: To search the MOM web site, use...

The Management Pack for SQL 2005 has released! Get it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79F151C7-4D98-4C2B-BF72-EC2B4AE69191&displaylang=en . SQL 2005 Management Pack description: The Microsoft SQL Server Management...

I am pleased to announce that MOM 2005 SP1 Localized into 5 new languages has hit RTM today on schedule. These additional languages are: Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Italian Korean Spanish This extends the previous release...

Application development and application maintenance are no longer separate. Closing the loop between operations and development is critical for keeping the total cost of operations down. Recently, the AVIcode .NET Operations management pack was released...

At long last - the Availability Reporting MP is now available for download from micrososft.com! The Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Availability Reporting Management Pack collects and analyzes data from the event logs of your servers, and generates...

Good article on the new features in MOM 2005: Tech Target Write Up

The following command line switches have not been mentioned in the MOM 2005 deployment guide. These switches are for users who would like to install the MOM Connector Framework, MOM to MOM Product Connector and the MOM Web Console silently. Machine...

The Microsoft IT Forum 2005 conference is coming up soon. The registration site is up and running here: http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx Date : 15-17 November Location : Barcelona, Spain Registration Cost...

Once a month Steve Ballmer sends an exec email to subscribers. These emails usually talk about Microsoft's vision/strategy in certain areas. In this month's installment, Steve discusses Microsoft's strategy to meet the unique business and IT needs of...

Ian Blyth (Technical Sales - UK) made a great post on his blog about the Microsoft product cycle. It explains the process that is used by product teams at Microsoft to plan, build, test, and release the products we work on. Check it out here: http...

The following things need to be done in order to change Agent Control Level from Full to None. Stop the MOM service on the MOM Management Server managing the particular agent whose control level needs to be changed. Open the Admin Console ...

Check out this new MP! Really powerful application management capabilities. Here is the overview: Overview Targeted to systems operators responsible for monitoring system health, AVIcode’s .NET management pack operations edition for Microsoft Operations...

We had another one of those interesting threads on an internal distribution alias today about playing a sound when a new alert comes into MOM. While MOM doesnt support this natively, the contributors to this thread came up with some interesting options...

We had an interesting thread today on an internal alias about running multiple MOM consoles simultaneously. The following are supported configurations: Run multiple MOM 2000 consoles at once - create more than one MMC console with a MOM 2000 administrator...

You can tell what version of Operations Manager 2005 you have by going into the registry and looking under HKLM\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\2.0\Setup\InstalledServerSKU. It will say "Eval" for the evaluation version, "Select" or "Retail...

MOM 2005 Eval can be upgraded to MOM RTM licensed version even after the Eval period is over. This blog describes how this works....

A question that I hear frequently is "How do I create a read-only Operator Console"? The MOM security groups are 'MOM User', 'MOM Author', and 'MOM Administrator'. Unfortunately, there is no 'MOM Read-only User' security group. This means that there...

MSDN Magazine has a great article on how to write a manageable application and then montoring it with MOM, entitled Instrument and Monitor Your ASP.NET Apps Using WMI and MOM 2005 . This really gets to much of the core of DSI which starts wtih designing...

Many customers are interested in best practices for securing their MOM 2005 deployment. Beyond the documentation we provide (see the MOM Security Center as part of the MOM 2005 Admin console\Information Center) here are a couple more tips: Use Security...

Here is some background that led to the decision to take this dependency on Windows Installer (MSI) 3.1v2 in MOM 2005 Service Pack 1. I completely understand how this dependency may complicate or delay your deployment of MOM 2005 SP1 particularly in highly...

The MOM 2005 Sizer tool is finally available. This is the final version that is officially released to the public. The MOM 2005 sizer helps you predict the hardware requirements for your MOM deployment based on the number of computers that you will be...