Effective immediately, the Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 Operating System Management Pack (MP) for Operations Manager 2007 is no longer available via the in-console download experience for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Customers looking...

I ran into an interesting issue the other day and thought I would post it here in case anyone else happened to see it.   The issue is that if you use System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE) to manage computers in your environment, when you select...

When you run one of the Problem Analysis Reports in AVIcode Intercept Studio 5.6, you may receive the following error: An error has occurred The additional error information can be found in the Windows Application Log. We apologize for any inconvenience...

After you apply System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 3 (CU3), a workflow that queries the EventData element of an SDK event may fail to properly evaluate the XPATH query. Specifically, this occurs if the SDK event does not include...

In previous blog posts, the importance of maintaining consistency of encryption key pairs across MED-V policy servers was discussed as well as proactive maintenance and backups of workspace keys. The following are some more various problems that can result...

Looks like the wait is over as Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 should be available today via the Windows Download Center .  Or if you're the patient type you can always wait for it to show up via Windows Update...

Here's a somewhat obscure issue that took me a little bit of time to figure out so I thought I'd post it here to save you some trouble in case you ran across it as well.  In this scenario, once the Forefront Threat Management Gateway Management Pack...

You find that you are unable to provision AMT devices in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 using an external certificate provided by VeriSign.  However, using your Internal CA you find that you can successfully provision new machines. ...

Just in case you somehow happened to miss the announcement, we made Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 available to MSDN and TechNet Subscribers as well as Volume License customers yesterday .  I've been running it for a few...

Attempting to install the System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (SCMDM) Administrator Console or the Software Distribution console on a server or workstation fails with the following error: Setup detected a missing prerequisite. Windows PowerShell...

Here's an interesting issue I ran into the other day.  While going through the DPM Protection Group wizard to protect a servers NTFS volume, after enumerating the protected servers data sources and clicking on the volume to protect you receive the...

After upgrading the AVIcode Intercept Studio Agent, the following events may be logged every few seconds in the Intercept EventLog: Log Name:      Intercept Source:        Intercept PerfCounterMonitor...

Symptoms 1. Agent Status on the Primary System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) server shows as OK for all Agents. 2. The Consistency Check on the Primary DPM server is failing with the following error: An unexpected error occurred while the...

When using SQL Server 2008 R2 as the database server for the System Center Operations Manager 2007 operationsmanager database, the SQL server service may use 100% CPU when SCOM 2007 triggers configuration update requests. For example, when we make a change...

The System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 – Windows Server 2008 R2 – Basic troubleshooter for Support Diagnostic Platform was designed to collect information to help troubleshoot most of Data Protection Manager 2010 problems.  Microsoft Support...

Cumulative Update 4 for SCOM 2007 R2 includes all previous cumulative updates for SCOM 2007 R2 and includes all cross-platform updates. Note Any cross-platform changes for this update and for future updates are no longer described in a separate Microsoft...

The installation of SCE 2007 SP1 blocks with a warning “WSUS Valid Date”. This happens because the WSUS 3.0 SP1 image present on the SCE 2007 SP1 DVD is expired in October 2010. This blog lists the steps to download and install WSUS 3.0 SP2...