Update Dec 3 2012 : Please see the blog post on the Service Manager blog which is up to date. This blog post is remaining here only to increase the visibility via search results. http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2012/05/24/clarification...

With System Center Operations Manager 2012, the 32-bit agent cannot be installed in a 64-bit server. Although - in general - 32-bit applications can still be monitored by the 64-bit agent, you won’t be able to collect 32-bit custom performance counters...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where you may be unable to see any performance or availability details using System Center 2012 Operations Manager widgets ===== Symptoms When using performance widgets in...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one is a basic overview of what Maintenance Mode is and when/how you’d want to use it, plus a couple common issues you may run into. ===== What is Maintenance Mode? Maintenance mode is a feature in...

I just noticed that all of these cool demo videos were posted to TechNet Video earlier this month.  Check them out to see how System Center 2012 can make managing your private cloud a whole lot easier and better!   Private Cloud Demo Extravaganza...

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with customers over the last 6-12 months helping them plan out and deploy their first private clouds managed by System Center 2012.  To help people get started faster I headed into the Enterprise Engineering...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one describes an issue where recipients of Alert subscriptions may not receive e-mail notifications in OpsMgr. ===== Symptoms Recipients of Alert subscriptions may not receive e-mail notifications...

Cumulative Update 6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is available. Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues: RMS promotion fails if NetworkName and PrincipalNames are not in sync for agents. UI is limited...

          Managing and Operating a Microsoft Private Cloud—How to Apply the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) The Microsoft Operations Framework team is working on a new guide: Managing and Operating a Microsoft Private Cloud...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one describes an event you may see when deleting a Favorite in AVIcode or System Center 2012 Operations Manager. ===== Summary After deleting a Favorite Report from AVIcode Advisor in...

An update to Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 has been released.  In addition to the previous fixes for Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and App Controller (AC), the update rollup now includes fixes for Operations Manager (OM). A few things to...

This came out a little while ago but better late than never to promote it! This management pack synchronizes System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Application Performance Monitoring (APM) alerts and Team Foundation Server (TFS) work items. After importing...

With Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager connections to other Enterprise Management (EM) tools or Service Desks are now provided via System Center 2012 Orchestrator.  Customers have been asking how to build a suite of Orchestrator Runbooks...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one discusses a database related issue you may run into when installing System Center 2012 Operations Manager. ===== Symptoms While installing System Center 2012 Operations Manager, the...

Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 contains a number of fixes for System Center 2012 Operations Manager, App Controller and Virtual Machine Manager, including cross platform fixes and support for Oracle Solaris 11. I won’t go into all the details...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where the Orchestrator Runbook Service starts and then stops after 30-60 seconds and logs a 7023 event. ===== Symptoms The Orchestrator Runbook Service (orunbook) on...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one discusses a database issue you may run into when installing System Center 2012 Operations Manager. ===== Summary When configuring the database during the System Center 2012 Operations...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one discusses an issue where the status icon in a title column of State View shows health from the First Item in System Center 2012 Operations Manager ===== Symptoms In System Center Operations...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one discusses regular expression support in System Center Operations Manager. ===== Summary The authoring of management packs may need to include regular expression matching in discoveries...

We are very happy to announce that seven of the Product Solution Centers on http://support.microsoft.com are featuring new Top Solutions sections that pull dynamically from the Top Solutions RSS feeds . The Top Solutions are usually listed on the page...

Over the years, Boris has released a set of phenomenal tools, that saved lives of OpsMgr administrators quite some time in performing common OpsMgr tasks in OpsMgr 2007 and 2007 R2.. Anyhow, Boris has moved to another team within Microsoft. In order to...

In case you haven’t noticed, our colleagues and long-time Application Management experts Shawn Gibbs and Chris Childers have started blogging: Chris  http://blogs.technet.com/b/chrischilders/ Shawn http://blogs.technet.com/b/shawngibbs/ Make sure...

Just a quick FYI that beta versions of the Windows Server 2012 Management Packs (MPs) for System Center 2012 Operations Manager are now available to TAP customers. These beta versions of the Windows Server 2012 Management Packs are available for you to...

Here’s one more Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one shows you how to easily fix an issue where the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (OpsMgr) Connector for HP OpenView fails to auto-forwarding alerts to an HP OVO...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one talks about an easy fix for an issue you may run into where a Windows NT service fails to start automatically if monitored by AVICode. ===== Symptoms Some Windows NT services may...