Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=9296 Overview The Windows Server Operating System management pack consists of the following five management packs...

Setting up the Operations Manager Web Part Why would you want to do this? General Prerequisites Installing the Web Part Setting up a Target Application in the SharePoint Secure Store (Optional) Setting up the Web Part Environment ...

As you’ve likely seen or heard, System Center Operations Manager 2012 contains significant enhancements in the ability to display data through the use of its new dashboard technologies. This post is the first in a series of dashboard-related posts...

Congratulations to our 2 SCOM 2012 Beta Survey Sweepstakes winners: Vedran Matica and Silvio Di Benedetto They each won an XBox 360 and Kinect! T hank-you to everyone that completed surveys, your feedback will help us deliver a better product...

If you know Dan Rogers from the Operations Manager forums and industry events in the OM space, you'll want to subscribe to his new blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/manageability_aint_easy/ ...read more

Virtualization Career Training On Tuesday, October 4 th Technical Evangelists Symon Perriman and Rick Claus are hosting an online conference on Virtualization Career Training with Microsoft Learning. This half day virtual event (8am – 11am PST...

In our documentation for authoring Operations Manager management packs, we regularly reference the Management Pack Development Kit , mainly the Module Type Reference that includes reference documentation for the modules that are included in the standard...

Hi everyone, Eddy Pacay here once again with some useful knowledge on MP Authoring and rules for performance collection in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007). I have recently come across a very unique scenario where a single performance...

There are many questions on which components of network devices are monitored for System Center network monitoring. This post will hopefully clear up some of those questions as the post will cover what gets monitored and the conditions where the monitoring...

Here’s a new OpsMgr 2007 KB article we published today. If you’re looking for some tips on hotfixes and changes for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr) Agent Health then this one’s for you: ===== Summary This article is intended to give some...

For the Operations Manager 2012 release, we have made some big changes in the setup and upgrade areas to make the deployment experience more simple, intuitive, and easy to use. In this post, I’m going to go through some of the major changes in the...

Here’s a new SCVMM 2008/OpsMgr 2007 KB article we published this morning.  If you’re seeing an issue where PRO Tips alerts are unexpectedly being removed from the PRO Tips alerts window then you’ll want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms PRO Tips...

What is Standard Data Set Maintenance? Standard Data Set Maintenance is a workflow that runs against the Data Warehouse to aggregate, optimize, and groom data. This workflow runs on the RMS and is triggered every 60 seconds. There is a hard-coded timeout...

If you’re looking for a good resource for troubleshooting OpsMgr 2007 client agent install issues then this new KB article we published today is for you: ===== Symptoms The System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007) agent can be deployed to Windows...