A large and sudden increase in the number of alerts is called an alert storm. An alert storm can be a symptom of massive changes of some kind within your management group, such as the catastrophic failure of networks. An alert storm can also be a symptom...

The folks over on the System Center Operations Manager product team blog just posted a great article on how by default, the Microsoft Exchange 2007 Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 will not automatically start monitoring of any Exchange 2007...

We see a lot of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting installs around here and while they almost always work perfectly, when they don't it's usually because of a few common issues. I've listed some of these common issues below.  The log...

Just an FYI that on Friday we released version 6.1.7599.0 of the Operations Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2 , delivering some new and updated standard and operational data reporting capabilities: The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management...

Looks like the good folks over on the System Center Essentials Team Blog posted an article about our Partners Readiness Week where we'll be providing 5 online training sessions to prepare Microsoft Partners to be successful with the next generation of...

This update includes the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Agent update. The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Agent update is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 973583. The Operations Manager 2007 R2...

Microsoft System Center helps you get the most from your mission-critical messaging infrastructure with management solutions that enhance the availability features built into Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. In this webcast on March 3, 2010 , we look at...

We just released an update to the IIS7 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 that adds support for monitoring Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2: This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues...

The DFS Namespaces Management Pack monitors servers running Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2, and Windows Server 2003. It can also be configured to monitor the health of DFS Namespaces from client computers running Windows Vista® or Windows...

Looks like our very own DustinJ (Program Manager for System Center Essentials) just posted a great article on how to troubleshoot agent deployment in System Center Essentials 2010: I'll focus this article on troubleshooting the deployment of the Operations...

Just an FYI that we have a new Knowledge Base article that lists the known issues that you may experience when you use a management pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 on a computer that is running a localized version of Windows...

In the Operations Manager console of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, the Windows Operating System column may have a Not Monitored state for a new agent. Additionally, the state never changes to Healthy. This issue occurs because the...

In Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, alerts can be raised by the monitors. Alerts that are raised by the monitors are typically the result of a state change. These alerts are displayed...