I am pleased to announce the release of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit. The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit includes three tools designed to help improve the Operations Manager...

There have been various questions on how and when Operations Manager will provide monitoring support for Windows Server 2012 so I wanted to clarify things in this blog. Supported Configurations: The supported configurations for Operations Manager...

When a computer is put into maintenance mode, the database and the management server are updated immediately. At that point, any server side responses including notification rules will not run. The agent will be polling the MS on its polling interval...

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...

OpsMgr Community, If you are receiving alerts “Performance Module could not find a performance counter” in the Operations Manager Console, please perform thefollowing steps to disable the rule via override. Note: When you run the Operations Console...

Today we have BIG NEWS for both Advisor and Operations Manager users! Our team is proud to announce the release of the System Center Advisor Connector for Operations Manager Preview ! This connector enables Advisor to be an attached service to your...

We have created a new UI tool to make obtaining mass certificates easy. Here at OpsMgr, we understand the pain that you have to go through to configure certificate authentication to deploy non-domain joined agents. There are many things we've provided...

The tool linked in this article allows you to view and configure the data warehouse data retention policies configured within your Operations Manager DW. Follow the instructions below to use. Prerequisites Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Operations...

Back at MMS this year we presented a session on authoring reports. During that session my colleague Vitaly created a SQL stored procedure that allowed us to create a server overview report showing key server metrics such as Processor Count, Physical Memory...

OpsMgr 2007 SP1 and SCE 2007 SP1 have recently announced support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in knowledge base article 953141 . Along with the release of this support statement, the first batch of management packs that provide monitoring for the...

With Operations Manager 2007, monitoring of Web based applications using a synthetic transaction approach was much easier with the inclusion of Web application monitoring template. This replaced the Web sites and services Management Pack in MOM 2005 and...

12/3 (Final) Update: The fixed management pack (build 6.0.6460.0) is now available on the MP Catalog !!! I've removed the attachment from this post so if you want to download the MP feel free to grab it from the catalog. 12/1 Update: Due to recent...

A lot of good stuff is going on in Seattle these days, Seahawks have made it to the playoffs, we have actually been seeing some sunshine in month of January and Windows Server 2008 aka Longhorn is picking up a lot of good buzz at least that’s what I hear...

We are still waiting for a hotfix from the Windows team. Unfortunately this has delayed us being able to support Windows Server 2008 for another month. The OpsMgr team is working with the Windows team on getting the necessary hotfixes ready for...

The System Center Operations Manager team has released its second quarterly update of the OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP to the catalog. You can download the MP from this page . This package (Version 6.1.7599.0) is specific to OpsMgr 2007 R2 and will not import on...

One of the challenges we face when working with notifications in System Center Operation Manager is figuring out if a notification subscription was triggered and who received it. Currently in OM2007SP1 and OM2007R2 we do not record when the notification...

Updated attachment to fix deployment for Forecast MP. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included utilities are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm . Daniel...

When deploying the Operations Manager gateway role you can tag the gateway with a Site name. Any alerts coming from an agent reporting to this gateway will now have it's "Site" property populated with the site name you configured when deploying the gateway...

This QFE updates the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Agent to allow it to monitor Windows Server 2008 Internet Information Services 7.0 Servers. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f82ef6b3-a08e-4295-b9e3-fb78a74aefa8&displaylang...

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...

Dear Users, With the Beta release of Global Service Monitor (GSM) we added one of the most requested features: ability to execute multistep web tests with authentication. This is a big step forward compared with single URL tests we had in CTP, because...

In OpsMgr 2012, we provided users the ability to create customized dashboards using the OpsMgr 2012 console. The GTM.exe tool provided in this blog allows you to build off these dashboard investments, in particular we allow you to accomplish three specific...

Dear Users, With the CTP2 release of System Center 2012, we announced the immediate availability of the Customer Preview of a new System Center component called “Global Service Monitor”. Global Service Monitor is an Azure-based service...

For those who already know me, it has been a couple of weeks since I relocated to the Seattle area and started working as a Program Manager on the Operations Manager Application Monitoring team and this is my first post on this blog. For those who don...

Update: the final Visio 2007 Add-in is now available - these links to the beta are obsolete. See http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2009/07/31/visio-2007-add-in-for-operations-manager-2007-r2-released.aspx. The Visio Add-in for System Center...