Knowledge is power right? Operations Manager is at its core a knowledge based monitoring system, it’s the knowledge that differentiates it from its competitors. It is fairly easy to collect some data and visualize it some fancy UX but it is...

Brian McDermott | Escalation Engineer | Microsoft CTS Management and Security Division Hi everyone, Brian McDermott here with some info on how to change the Management Server Run As account on a clustered RMS in System Center Operations Manager 2007....

Dave Hatton, one of the Senior Systems Engineers here at Microsoft, just posted a blog post on our Partner and Customer Solutions blog about his team’s experience upgrading from System Center 2012 to System Center 2012 SP1 – Operations Manager. ...

This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if a user visits an affected website by way of a specially crafted URL. An attacker...

You asked for it, and now its here : System Center Advisor now supports Windows Server 2012 as well as Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 ! By installing the latest version of the Advisor agent on servers running Windows Server 2012 or Hyper-V Server...

BELOW IS A LIST OF SESSIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE OPSMGR (SCOM) PRODUCT ENGINEERING TEAM AT MMS 2013 ( http://www.2013mms.com/ ) BELOW IS A LIST OF SESSIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE OPSMGR (SCOM) MVPs AND PARTNERS AT MMS 2013 ...

The goal of Operations Manager (and of course the whole System Center Suite) is to provide consistent, world-class manageability. We claim that our product provides best in class monitoring for Microsoft server workloads with rich knowledge to help detect...

Hi everyone, This month we have some exciting news for our System Center Advisor users: as of January 2013 , Advisor is free to Microsoft customers in supporting countries . Trial periods are a thing of the past and Software Assurance is no longer...

Windows Server Cluster The System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Cluster monitors the health of the Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012 clusters. This management pack is designed to improve...

If you have recently installed Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (CU7) on your management servers and then attempted to push install a Linux\Unix agent then you may have encountered this issue. The agent installation packages...

Overview ​Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) is a server application that enables applications to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline or otherwise inaccessible. Instead of an application communicating...

Just wanted to let you know that we’ve completed compatibility testing for the System Center Security Monitoring Pack for Endpoint Protection and it now officially supports System Center 2012 Operations Manager Service Pack 1. No updates or changes are...

This post is intended to help you get started with the Client-Side Monitoring (CSM) feature in Operations Manager 2012. Client-Side Monitoring provides a real end user perspective on application health for .NET applications, as users are interacting with...

Here’s an issue we’ve run across a time or two here in support so I thought it would be worth documenting just in case you happen to see it. What happens is that the System Center 2012 Operations Manager Config Service DeltaSynchronization process fails...

We just published a new KB article that explains an issue with the SQL Server 2012 Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007 R2 where you may not see the default columns in the monitoring views. This is simply a view settings anomaly that’s easily fixed but you...

  Overview This management pack supports monitoring of Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 systems. This includes monitoring coverage of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host servers, including critical services and disks, and Hyper-V virtual machines including...

Now that we have publically released System Center 2012 Service Pack 1, you need to take care when applying this to your Operations Manager servers. As part of the Service Pack installation we make some changes to the OperationsManager database objects...

This morning we announced the availability of System Center 2012 SP1.   You can read more about the release on the System Center blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2013/01/15/system-center-2012-sp1-is-generally-available.aspx...

Dear Users! We have just announced the first public release of System Center Global Service Monitor (GSM). GSM provides capability to monitor externally facing web sites and web services from geo-distributed locations. System Center customers can configure...

On Friday, we released the new Windows Server Backup Management Pack.  You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36390 Overview This management pack will allow you to monitor the status of Windows server...

Issues that are fixed in Cumulative Update 7 Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 fixes the following issues: Console performs poorly when User Roles are used to scope object access. Availability data is not shown for the current...

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS13-003. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft websites: Home users: http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/bulletins/201301.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/security...

So, the APM Wizard is great. We put a lot of effort in simplifying the most common scenario for configuration, as described in earlier posts such as this one http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/07/30/operations-manager-and-application-monitoring...

A new version of the print server management pack adds support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.  The management pack can be used in Operations Manager 2007 R2 or in System Center 2012 – Operations Manager.    Overview...

This cumulative update fixes the issue that is documented in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article: 2735318 You receive Secure Reference Override Failure warnings after you install Monitoring Management Pack in System Center Operations Manager...