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

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 ...read more

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 computers either via "remote push"...

OM Community, In this blog post, I will explain the changes made to the Operations Manager 2012 infrastructure topology.  The purpose of this post is not to do a deep technical explanation on how some of these new features work but more of an overview ...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

http://www.systemcentersolutions.com/blog/ I am a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager MVP and work for AKCSL, a Microsoft Gold Partner in the UK. I’ve been working with Enterprise Management Systems since 1999, when I joined NetIQ to ...read more

  I have a quick update on the Schedule Maintenance Mode RESKIT Tool, also some information \ best practices. Best Practices: Do not go beyond 20 Jobs scheduled.  Anything over this will start to place too much load on your Root Management Server ...read more

Quick heads up! The Supported Configurations Statement for OM2007R2 has been updated to support SQL Server 2008 SP2 .  We now support the following roles on SQL Server SP2: Operations Manager database Data Warehouse database Audit Collections database ...read more

  I noticed on the forums someone was having trouble using this with the R2 release.  Here is an updated version of the momclean tool to use for uninstalling OM2007R2 when traditional methods have failed.  Note: None of the command line ...read more

The good folks over on the Operations Manager product team blog just posted a heads up on an issue you might run into where SCOM 2007 setup fails to detect SQL: If you have run into issues during setup where you know that you have a supported version of SQL running on your machine but setup in unable...

If you have run into issues during setup where you know that you have a supported version of SQL running on your machine but setup in unable to detect it, you may have hit a SQL WMI provider issue. In OpsMgr 2007 R2, this shows up as the SQL Server requirement ...read more

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...

Looks like the folks on the System Center Essentials product team blog just posted some great information on how to use the UpdatePublisherCert.exe tool to replace the existing System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE 2007) certificate with a new certificate for use with System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE...

Here's a heads up on a new System Center Essentials 2010 KB article we recently published.  This article discusses an issue where an existing Active Directory Group Policy Object (GPO) named "SCE Test GPO" may be deleted during the configuration of System Center Essentials 2010. ...

Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft System Center. Audience(s): IT Generalist. Duration: 90 Minutes Event Overview The high level steps you will be exercising in this lab are: reading about various topologies, getting an overview of the sizing tool, and reading about the system requirements,...

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...

When you try to install Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 on Windows Server 2008, the installation fails and rolls back. Additionally, you receive the following error message: Account Verification Error Setup is unable to confirm the account details. For Operations Manager SDK accounts...

Last week we published some new Knowledge Base articles for System Center Operations Manager 2007. I won’t go into the details on each but I have the links and titles below: ======== KB972051 - The DBCreateWizard tool of System Center Operations Manager 2007 fails on a Windows Server 2008...

Here's another cool webcast that actually occurred last month but you can still view it online in case you missed it. We get quite a few questions about how to deploy and upgrade to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 so if this is something you have planned then this is a great place to start....

Here’s an issue we see on a fairly regular basis around here that I thought would be worth a quick post. This one is concerning an error you may get when trying to install Service Pack 1 for System Center Operations Manager 2007: “Error 25218: Failed to uninstall SDK MOF”. The details are below, and...

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...

Last week we had one new Knowledge Base article for System Center Essentials and two new Knowledge Base articles for System Center Operations Manager 2007.   The links and titles for each are below: KB969788 - OpsMgr 2007: "Fatal error during installation" error when uninstalling...