I know many of you will probably be heading to Las Vegas for MMS 2009 and if so we have all the breakout sessions listed here .  For those of you new to MMS: The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) is the premier event of the year for IT Professionals...

Hi Everyone, my name is Prakash and I recently worked an interesting case that I wanted to share with you here.  The issue was that whenever you tried to run a report in System Center Operations Manager 2007 you would receive this error: Error message...

Last week we had one new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article - The link and title is below: ========   KB957561 - How to install the Web Console component of Operations Manager 2007 on a stand-alone server that is using Windows...

We've been getting a few calls on this here in product support so I think it's probably worth a quick mention just in case you happen to run into it too.  Usually the call will start out where the customer says he or she is running System Center...

Just in case you missed it, Brian Wren recently posted a cool example on how to programmatically create a whole list of groups in Operations Manager 2007.  If this is something you've wanted to do but didn't know how then you'll definitely want to...

Last week we had four new System Center Operations Manager 2007 related Knowledge Base articles.  The links and titles are below: ======== KB957562 - How to configure the Operations Manager Connector Framework to use Security Sockets Layer (SSL)...

Tim Helton, a Senior Supoport Escalation Engineer in our North Carolina office, recently posted a cool utility that will reset all of the health monitors on a single agent or all agents so that you can get re-alerted on all current issues even if you...

A buddy of mine sent me a link to Lynn Lunik's latest post over on myITforum.com and as is always the case, it's fantastic.  I have the intro and a link below so if you have the need to collect perf data for troubleshooting or for performing capacity...

Just in case you missed it, over on SystemCenterForum.org they have begun a neat series of posts on how, when and why to virtualize System Center Operations Manager 2007.  I copied the intro below but you should definitely check out the original...

This is kind of a weird one but I came across it the other day and thought it might be worth a quick heads-up.  Normally you wouldn't think this would be a common issue, and in reality it isn't, but with the economy the way it is right now this may...

Last week we had three new System Center Operations Manager 2007 related Knowledge Base articles.  The links and titles are below: ======== KB961725 - DBCreateWizard.exe fails with an Exception when run on a 64-bit OS Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007...

If you've been an Operations Manager admin for any length of time you've probably had a need to discover security group membership for your various agent computers so if this is you then this is your lucky day.  Over on Steve Rachui's manageability...

Have you ever downloaded an OpsMgr 2007 Management Pack but had trouble figuring out what's new, what's changed or even how to use it?  If so then what you'll want to do is check out the MP's corresponding Management Pack Guide.  Out on our...

Here's an interesting issue we ran into the other day.  I didn't see this documented anywhere so now it is: ======== Issue: The OpsMgr Connector and the HealthService may log the following events: Event Type:  Error Event Source:  OpsMgr...

I was actually looking for something else when I came across this MP for Mobile Device Manager 2008 Service Pack 1 and thought I'd mention it in case you missed it too.  If you're running OpsMgr and MDM then this is definitely something you'll want...

For the week of 12-14 through 12-20 we had three new OpsMgr 2007 related KB articles.  The links and titles are below: ======== KB957560 - The System Center Operations Manager 2007 console crashes, and a NullReferenceException exception is generated...

This may be old news to some of you but I've been out of the office for a couple weeks and I came across this as I was clearing out my Inbox.  Back on December 19th we released an update to the Windows Server DNS 2000/2003/2008 Management Pack for...