Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on SCOM 2007.  This one talks about an issue where ACS reports only return a max of 42 days worth of data: ===== Symptoms When using System Center Operations Manager 2007, the audit database data retention period is set to 100 days but Audit...

OM Community, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 now supports SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 . Note: We will have the Supported Configuration posted in the next few weeks to make this more official, but feel free to go ahead and install it. Thanks! Nishtha ...read more

OM Community, System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 now supports SQL Server 2005 SP4 .  Note: We will have the Supported Configuration and a KB article posted in the next few weeks to make this more ...read more

I just wanted to let you know  that we just published a great KB article on how to troubleshoot some common reasons for blank reports in System Center Operations Manager 2007.  If you ever have any trouble with OpsMgr reports then this is a great place to start: ===== Blank reports can be a...

We just published this one today so if you’re seeing empty Service Level Tracking Summary Reports in System Center Operations Manager 2007 then you’ll want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms If you run a Service Level Tracking Summary Report in System Center Operations Manager 2007 and select a different...

Here's a quick note on an issue I saw recently.  When you are trying to install Reporting for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007), the installation wizard may hang after you select the SQL SRS Instance and click the Next button if the SQL SRS Instance name has an underscore ( _ ) character...

Just in case you missed their post last week, The System Center Operations Manager team blog posted a bunch of reporting samples you could use with OpsMgr 2007, including: - "Customer X needs to produce a report that shows the processor, memory, logical disk performance for his 100 servers and needs...

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 file for Operations Manager Reporting, MomReportingX...

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 Manager 2007 after you upgrade to Windows Server...

When following the steps of this article, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd789004.aspx , in order to upgrade your SQL reporting server from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008, you may encounter the problem described below. In step 4 you run SRSUpgradeTool /PostSQLUpgrade and receive the following error...

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...

Using System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1), you may notice that some reports folders are missing from the Reporting pane under Operations console. For example: You have imported SQL 2005 Management Pack and its working fine, it monitors SQL servers fine, alerts, health state and...

If you have installed the MOM 2005 Reliability Analysis Reporting pack and found over time the task has taken longer and longer to complete, then it may be time to groom some of the older data from the database.  The pack does have a grooming stored procedure built in, but it does not run automatically...

Last week we published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Essentials 2007.  This one covers an issue where the setup program may fail during the Reporting phase due to the configuration of the proxy: KB970783 - System Center Essentials 2007 installation may fail during Reporting installation...

Here’s another great tip sent to me by Ritesh Grover on our OpsMgr team.  This one involves trying to setup a secondary management server and having it fail because the Data Warehouse (DW) action account and the RMS action account are the same so if this is something you’re running it check this...