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...

The System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Server 2012 Essentials helps you monitor features that are specific to Windows Server 2012 Essentials. It does not monitor features in the Windows Server 2012 operating system. To monitor features in Windows...

The Integration Guide for Operations Manager is now available at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12804.system-center-2012-integration-guide-operations-manager.aspx The purpose of the Integration Guide is to provide you with...

The Remote Desktop Services Management Pack helps you manage your computers that are running Remote Desktop Services on Windows Server 2012 by monitoring the health of the following Remote Desktop Services role services: · Remote Desktop Session Host...

If you liked the original System Center Blogs app that was published last year for Windows Phone and Android , you’ll be happy to know that both apps have now been updated, plus there is a new version now available for iOS . The updates include bug fixes...

This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where you are unable to access the Operations Manager 2007 Web Console and Event 33857 is recorded in the Operations Manager event log: Symptoms Consider the following scenario: - You are unable to access...

This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where the AVIcode or APM Advisor Report does not display correctly: Symptoms Consider the following scenarios: Scenario 1: You Install System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 with Avicode 5.7. You enable...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team is pleased to announce that the IPD guide for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager is now available for download. This guide outlines the infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where installing or upgrading Reporting in System Center 2012 Operations Manager fails with error 0xffffffff. ===== Symptoms When installing or upgrading to System Center...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where reports do not populate in the OpsMgr 2012 Reporting Pane, or Report data does not update. ===== Symptoms Reports do not populate in the System Center 2012 Operations...

Update Rollup 3 was recently released and is a little different than previous updates because we distributed the updates through Microsoft Update.  Stefan Stranger, a Senior Premier Field Engineer (PFE) at Microsoft, has written up a thorough blog...

I was working on a customer’s System Center 2012 Operations Manager, which was failing to register their application, even when they were using the steps provided in KB2699998 . Symptoms Using the steps  referenced in KB2699998 , the PowerShell hangs...

Overview ​The System Center Management Pack for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) monitors events that the AD FS 2.0 Windows service records in the AD FS 2.0 event logs, and it monitors the performance data that the AD FS 2.0 performance counters...

Overview This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate and take corrective action, if necessary. The management pack helps to simplify the administrative environment...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where Javascripts used by Operations Manager Management Packs fail to execute with CScript Error: Can't find script engine . ===== Symptoms Javascripts used by System Center...

Download the System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Windows Server File & iSCSI Services 2012 Here Overview System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Windows Server File & iSCSI Services 2012. This version of Monitoring Pack for...

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta - Installable Bits (if you want to do that instead of VMs) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34607 App Controller – Service Pack 1 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download...

If you have tried editing knowledge in OpsMgr 2012 with Office 2010 you are likely to have run into this error “Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word” or as shown in the image below. Working with our support...

We are pleased to announce that System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3 (UR3) has been released.  Keeping with our currently schedule of releasing update rollups quarterly, Update Rollup 3 provides updates for issues that have been reported to Microsoft...

We're happy to announce that MMS will return to Las Vegas, NV, April 8-12, 2013! In order to be one of the first to know about the opening of MMS 2013 registration, send mail to mmsnotfy@microsoft.com to subscribe to MMS News & Updates. http...