In case you missed it, Steven Halsey just posted some great info on the new Exchange Management Pack and an unsigned MP that will help with the migration over on the System Center Operations Manager team blog: One of the scenarios supported by the new...

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...

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...

At Microsoft we are continually receiving feedback from customers and improving our products, and as part of this process we review open issues and supply hotfixes as appropriate.  In line with this approach, we just published a new Microsoft System...

Here’s an issue I ran into when I was trying to import the Active Directory 2008 Management pack for MOM 2005 SP1, and since I didn’t see it documented anywhere I thought I’d post it here. I was trying to Import the Active Directory 2008 Management pack...

We’ve seen a couple issues with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 that we just released and found that the issues did not impact the operation of the management pack but were generating some non...

Just an FYI that last Friday we released the Windows Server Hyper-V Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007.  I have a brief overview and a download link below: Overview This management pack supports monitoring of Windows Server...

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 product team just posted a cool article on how to fix a couple Discovery related issues and if you haven’t already seen it then it’s worth a quick read.  Here’s the scenario they work with: In this post I...

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...

Just an FYI that we published a new version of our System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 SCW Roles and Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2008 back on June 9th.  I have a brief description and a download link below: The Operations Manager...

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time then you’re already familiar with the postings made by Steve Rachui over on his Manageability blog, but there’s been a flurry of activity over there in the past two days and it probably deserves...

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 product team just announced the introduction of two new complex deployment scenarios we did not support in OpsMgr 2007 SP1:  Clustering the RMS: In OpsMgr 2007 SP1, clustering a Root Management Server (RMS...

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...

Steve Rachui just posted a great article on how grooming works in System Center Operations Manager 2007, so if you missed this and was ever curious how all this came together then you’ll definitely want to check this out.  I have his intro and a...

Looks like they just announced the availability of the HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center over on the System Center product team blog.  In case you’re not familiar with this, I have a brief intro and a link to the source below:...

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...

The Operations Manager product team blog just posted some great information on what you need to know about upgrading and deploying System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.  Some of the big changes include: Operations Manager R2 now supports OM database...

The Service Level Dashboard Management Pack 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 was delivered late last week by the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team, and is available for you to download today from the System Center Catalog . Assisting...

Just an FYI that we just launched our new System Center Operations Manager 2007 based forums over on TechNet at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager .  We’ll gradually be encouraging everyone to...

Just in case you got an early start on the long Memorial Day weekend (here in the States) and missed the announcement, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 was approved and released to manufacturing last Friday.  General availability of the product...

Last week we published five 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: ======== KB968082 - Error message when you add an agent assignment rule...

Here’s a neat piece of documentation I came across today that was written by one of our top Support Escalation Engineers, Ganesh Babu gnana Sundaram.  If you ever need to reconfigure a Gateway server to communicate with a different Management server...

If I had a nickel for each time I heard that one.  It’s a great question too, and one that sometimes isn’t as easy to answer as you might think.  Fortunately for us, the esteemed Kevin Holman has compiled a a fantastic list of hotfixes that...

I know this is a little bit off topic but it’s cool enough that I thought you might appreciate a heads up, plus it can’t be all OpsMgr all the time can it?  Anyway, a few days ago we launched the Microsoft Automated Troubleshooting Services where...

Last week we published two new Knowledge Base articles for System Center Operations Manager 2007.  The first one addresses a console issue you may see after an upgrade to R2 and the second is for a hotfix that fixes an issue with 11470 events being...