Every once in a while we run across an issue where the cluster state view in System Center Operations Manager 2007 may show a cluster as not monitored.  If you happen to run into this too then here are 4 steps sent to me by Adrian Doyle that should...

We had a couple new Management Pack updates released last Friday, one for the Active Directory Management and the other for the DHCP Management Pack.  Windows Server 2008 is now supported for each.  More information and download details can...

The esteemed Adrian Doyle sent me some cool registry keys that can be used to control not only what is refreshed but how often it's refreshed within the OpsMgr 2007 admin console.  Please note that we only recommend changing these values upon the...

Over on Steve Rachui's Manageability blog he posted a great sample showing how to build an MP containing linked reports.  Below is an excerpt but you can read his entire post here . ======== I've seen several posts on various forums where folks are...

OK, I know this isn't really MOM or OpsMgr specific but it was just too cool to let slide under the radar.  Today, at TechEd EMEA 2008 in Barcelona, we announced the RTM release of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit version 3.2.  ...

Here's a great tip sent to me by Sam Allen, one of the top Support Escalation Engineers in our Texas office.  If you find that some of your agents are reporting to the wrong server or are generating OpsMgr Connector sourced 20064 events then this...

I came across some official antivirus exclusion recommendations for MOM 2005 and Operations Manager 2007 that came from Kevin Holman, a Senior PFE out of our Las Colinas office.  If you need to add some exclusions then consider this gospel: ====...

Here's a cool tip sent to me by Milan Jajal , a support engineer in our Manageability group. If you ever find the need to create a rule based on the description of an event then this one's for you: ======== If you need to generate an alert based...

Here's another cool tip sent to me by Milan Jajal , a support engineer in our Manageability group. If you're trying to create a new Event View using a custom rule and it's not showing up then this may be your issue: ======== Issue: When using the...

I'm going through a couple older issues and posting the resolutions just in case one of you happen to see the same thing.  The first regards running DBCreateWizard on a 64-bit OS: ======== Issue: The DBCreatewizard utility fails with BadImageformatException...

Just in case you missed it, the folks on the System Center blog announced that the OpsMgr 2007 R2 beta is now available for download.  For details on what's new and how to get it see http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2008/11/20/operations...

Here's an interesting Operations Manager issue I came across today. If you happen to have accounts beginning with an exclamation mark (!) then you might want to check this out before firing up the OpsMgr console: ======== Issue: When using the Operations...

Reporting is the word of the day so here's another OpsMgr Reporting issue you may run across. This one is caused by what turns out to be the root of oh so many problems: Misconfigured TCP/IP settings: ======== Issue: When you try to install System...

In case you missed it, The MOM team announced a new issue they've discovered. Apparently the database discovery scripts can fail on a system that has a DB that is larger than 32GB. I posted the description of the issue and a link below: ======== ...

Here is an older tip but it's one we use (or some variation) quite a bit in support.  This originally came from Narayana Vyas Kondreddi at http://vyaskn.tripod.com/search_all_columns_in_all_tables.htm so we can't take all the credit.  If you...

Just an FYI that Microsoft is offering a free second chance to pass that Microsoft Certification exam as well as a 25% discount on an additional exam. You better hurry though as you have to sign up by December 31st. ======== Second Shot now gives...

Here's an interesting one I came across that I think you'll find interesting. This one covers a message you may get if you're using the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003: ======== Issue: When you open the System Center Operations Manager 2007...

Wow, we hit the mother lode this week. We had nine new and one updated Knowledge Base article covering everything from MOM 2005 to OpsMgr 2007 Service Pack 1. Links and titles are below: ======== MOM Ops Mgr Serv Ent Ed 2005 EN 942736 - Some Microsoft...

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