In this webcast, we discuss the fundamental concepts around the architecture and design of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, and we cover the various factors that affect the overall performance and scalability of an Operations Manager deployment...

Must be survey time of the year because the OpsMgr team is also looking for feedback on the SQL Management Pack: Please take the opportunity to participate in the SQL MP survey to help the SQL team build a better MP. https://connect.microsoft.com/OpsMgr...

The System Center Operations Manager team is looking for feedback from all OpsMgr 2007 (RTM, SP1 and R2) users on if and how you use PowerShell (both in general and specifically the Operations Manager Command Shell).  If you don't use it then they...

Overview Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 provides IT professionals in mid-sized organizations, a unified physical and virtual management experience. It enables you to better secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot from a single console, so...

Agent Proxy needs to be enabled for several different management pack features to work properly. Active Directory, Cluster and Exchange are few common management packs requiring Agent Proxy to be enabled, just to name a few. Enabling the Agent Proxy security...

We just published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Operations Manager 2007.  This one involves an issue where you may receive an HTTP Error 403 page when you access the Reporting Services virtual directory for System Center Operations...

We recently did an analysis of the issues we’ve been seeing on the Operations Manager product support team and I thought I’d share a couple here just in case you run into any of them.  Below are some of the common problems that customers have been...

The announcement of support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 has already been made but here the official KB that describes the update: KB974722 - Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 in System Center Operations Manager 2007 This article...

Last Friday the Operations Manager product team announced that support is now available for running Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and Operations Manager 2007 R2 on the following operating systems: Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 The official support statement...

The Key Management Service is used to activate computers running Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Each activation request is logged on the KMS host. The KMS Management Pack collects data from the event logs of defined KMS hosts, and monitors those...

This is an older troubleshooting article that was originally posted on our old SMS&MOM blog back in July of 2008 but since we still get a few calls on this I thought it was worth repeating here. If you need to troubleshoot console performance in System...

Update : I just realized I posted this to the OpsMgr blog instead of the ConfigMgr blog so you'll find this same post there as well. But then everyone running OpsMgr wants to know this info too, right? Sorry about the confusion. ----- Over on the...

Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 now officially supports the agent on Windows Embedded Standard 2009 . You can download the latest System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Agent Prerequisites Macro for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 (x86) - ...

In System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1, the option to filter notifications by category was available in the UI but in the R2 release many changes were made to improve the flexibility of notification subscriptions and the category option...

We had two new Knowledge Base articles last week on System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1.  The KB on OpsMgr 2007 involves and issue where a Root Management Server, a Management Server, a Gateway Server...

System Center Operations Manager 2007 uses mutual authentication to communication with the agents. First the agent will try to communicate with Kerberos and when this is not possible certificates will be used for the secure communication.  If you...

Do you have some domain controllers that are appearing in a Not Monitored state?  If so, while there can be several reasons why an object would have a Not Monitored state, below are two very common reasons why a domain controller appears in this...

Our very own Steve Rachui recently started a new series of posts based on his highly touted MMS 2009 presentation so if you were unlucky enough to have missed it the first time around here’s your chance to get caught up.  Last week I posted a link...

Our very own Steve Rachiu recently started a new series of posts based on his highly touted MMS 2009 presentation so if you were unlucky enough to have missed it the first time around here’s your chance to get caught up. Part 1 starts out with a basic...

The MOM Team just released a handful of new AEM/DEM reports that they’re testing in case you want to give them a try.  They’re scheduled to release later this month so if you have any feedback you’ll probably want to get it to them as quickly as...

Love SCOM 2007 but wishing for a better way to monitor all your BizTalk 2009 Servers? Well today is your lucky day then. We recently released a new version of the Microsoft BizTalk Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 that supports BizTalk...