Just an FYI on a new KB we published today that's proven to be fairly popular: Symptom: MOM 2005 Reports with an end date of 01/01/2010 or later result in incorrect date values on the X-axis. Cause: This is due to the SC_DateDimension_table in the SystemCenterReporting DB not containing dates past 01...

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 you can.  The 4 new reports are: Top Blue Screen...

When servers appear to be missing from the the availability reports it could be because of many reasons, but whenever I run into this type of issues these are the kinds of troubleshooting steps I take.  First of all, to troubleshoot this issue we should be clear on the workflow going on behind the...

We just published a new Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 article which addresses an issue where scheduled reports that you create by using SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS) do not display chart data in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2: KB972821 - Scheduled reports...

Some users may need to have reports that can be looked at regularly but they don't want to install the SCOM console on a bunch of machines and have all those connections to the SDK.  So what can you do?  One way around this is to create reports that can be viewed in IE.  Below is an example...

Measuring and tracking web application response times can be critical in identifying and preventing potential outages before they occur, and if this is something you’d like to report on in System Center Operations Manager 2007 then here’s how to do it.  In order to generate Web Application Response...

I was going through all the cool stuff the OpsMgr product team has been releasing lately and found a couple R2 related items that I thought I’d mention here.  You may have already heard about these but in the past week or so they posted the download for the R2 Release Candidate as well as some info...

Just an FYI that we have a new Knowledge Base article available for System Center Operations Manager 2007.  This one is about an error message you might get when you try to perform a distributed installation of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting service.  The link and title...

Have you ever wanted to design your own custom performance reports using Operations Manager 2007 but didn’t know where to start?  Well today’s your lucky day because Daniel over on the MOMTeam blog just posted a webcast where he does just that.  Step by step instructions and sample files are...

When running one of the tasks in the action pane of System Center Operations Manager 2007, the results may be displayed in a window as unformatted XML. This is due to a SQL transform that was added in the RTM (original) version and was changed with Service Pack 1.  If you install a slipstream version...

The MOMTeam blog just posted a great list of prerequisites that will help ensure that Reporting installs successfully.  Before you install Reporting you'll want to give this a quick read: ======== Detailed below are some validation steps that should be completed before attempting to install Operations...

Reporting is the word of the day so here's another OpsMgr Reporting issue you may run across. This one is caused by what turns out to be the root of oh so many problems: Misconfigured TCP/IP settings: ======== Issue: When you try to install System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting, the installation...

Here's an interesting one I came across that I think you'll find interesting. This one covers a message you may get if you're using the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003: ======== Issue: When you open the System Center Operations Manager 2007 reporting console you may get the below error. ...

Over on Steve Rachui's Manageability blog he posted a great sample showing how to build an MP containing linked reports.  Below is an excerpt but you can read his entire post here . ======== I've seen several posts on various forums where folks are looking for samples showing how to build an MP...

Just a quick heads-up on an issue we're starting to see more of these days.  The reports in the Exchange 2007 Management Pack (MP) look great and work great most of the time but since they run using the raw data in the Data Warehouse (DW) they can time out and fail in larger sized environments. ...