The Windows Client Monitoring Management Pack is built to detect, diagnose, and resolve hardware and software problems pertaining to Client 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. Information and analysis on the issues that the system detected...

Let’s say you’ve got a mixed version (SP1 and R2) Operations Manager 2007 environment and agents are commonly multi-homed.  This works and is supported to enable a phased upgrade approach. However, if you’re planning to multi-home new agents in this...

Below are the steps necessary to stop monitoring a cluster that will be decommissioned and is currently being monitored with System Center Operations Manager 2007.  If you do not follow this procedure, there is a risk that you may have orphaned virtual...

We’ve been seeing a couple instances of this so I thought it would be worthy of a mention just in case any of you are running into the same thing. Issue: When taking a System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 agent out of maintenance mode, an agent...

Updates to the Exchange Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 are now available on the Management Pack Catalog . Changes in This Update : The following list contains the issues that are fixed in version 6.0.6702.0 of the Exchange Server 2003 Management...

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Update adds fixes for a defunct process issue on Unix/Linux Servers, as well as, adds support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions) and Solaris Zone support. Feature...

Just in case you missed it, last week the Operations Manager Product Team announced that: “…the first out of band update to the Operations Manager Management Pack has been released to the MP catalog ! This MP package (Version 6.1.7533.0) is specific to...

We just published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Operations Manager 2007.  This one describes the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Cross Platform agent update. This update enables System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to support the following platforms...

Steve Rachui posted Part 3 in his series on monitors in Operations Manager 2007.  If you liked the first two then you’ll love this one: This is part 3 (and last) of my series of posts describing monitors.  The first post, found here , discussed...

The DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 monitors the health of the DFS Replication service on Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008. The DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager...

Learn how to optimize Microsoft System Center Operations Manager for cross-platform devices, applications, and regulatory auditing requirements, and see how to create advanced line-of-business (LOB), geographic, and executive-level dashboards in Microsoft...

The Operations Manager Product Team blog just posted a request for feedback and a vote for which new features you’d like to see in the next version of the product.  If you want to make your voice heard then now’s your chance: Most of you know we...

The updated Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack adds support for monitoring Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 in a 64-bit environment with Operations Manager 2007 R2 or Operations Manager 2007 SP1 with hotfix (KB971541) installed. This enables...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated guides for deployment and operations: Windows Deployment Services and System Center Operations Manager. These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server...

A lot went on last week surrounding System Center Operations Manager 2007 so in case you might have missed one or two I have a quick recap below: The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit was released: http://blogs.technet...

You’ve heard about it and read about and now you’ll soon have the chance to try it out yourself.  The System Center Online Desktop Manager beta is coming soon: The System Center Online team has been working hard in preparation for its next beta release...

Being able to react to a changing server infrastructure is important for achieving a rationalized or dynamic IT infrastructure. This becomes a necessity with virtualization and the dynamic natures of workloads sharing an infrastructure. With Microsoft...