Many of us are beginning to pack things up and head out for the holidays so I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I'm doing the same.  I'm going to be out until January 5th so if the posts start to dry up then that's probably why, although...

Looks like there's a new installment in the OpsMgr by Example series over at http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/Blog/ and this time they take a look at deploying agents using ConfigMgr 2007.  I have the intro and a direct link below: ======== We return...

The OpsMgr product team just posted some good notes on getting the Web Console component installed on Windows Server 2008.  If you're struggling getting this to work then check out there post here for the requirements and a related hotfix. J.C. Hornbeck...

We've received a couple calls on this so I thought a quick post might help just in case you're using Windows SteadyState in your environment.  Anjana Kaku Tyagi wrote up the example below, and while the example is for the SMS client you should be...

Here's an interesting issue that was sent to me by Rohit Kaul on our OpsMgr 2007 team.  This one concerns an issue where the disk space monitoring of a SQL database file does not trigger an alert if the database is set to Autogrow: ======== Issue...

For the week of 12-7 through 12-13 we had two new Knowledge Base articles for OpsMgr 2007.  Links and titles are below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=957135 You cannot change the alert resolution state of any alert in the Active Alerts...

Here's an interesting tip sent to me by Milan Jajal on how to make ACS work on a port other than the default. I don't know how often something like this would be necessary but just in case you need it here are the steps: ======== Below are the changes...

Here's another interesting one for you.  What I wanted was a way to track what scripts are executed by the Operations Manager Agent on a box as this would help in fine tuning some of the rules/monitors which were configured to run very frequently...

For the week of 11-30 through 12-6 we had two new Knowledge Base articles.  The links and titles are below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=957560 The System Center Operations Manager 2007 console crashes, and a NullReferenceException...

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...

For the week of 11-23 through 11-29 we had one updated and one new Knowledge Base article on MOM 2005.  Links and titles are below: ======== MOM Ops Mgr Serv Ent Ed 2005 EN 924043 - Active Directory Management Pack reports contain incorrect data...

Sorry for the delay in posting the new KB's but I took a couple days for Thanksgiving and I'm just now getting caught back up.  For the week of 11-16 through 11-22 we had three updated and one new Knowledge Base article on MOM and OpsMgr 2007. ...

Here's an interesting Operations Manager issue I came across today. If you happen to have accounts beginning with an exclamation mark (!) then you might want to check this out before firing up the OpsMgr console: ======== Issue: When using the Operations...

Just in case you missed it, the folks on the System Center blog announced that the OpsMgr 2007 R2 beta is now available for download.  For details on what's new and how to get it see http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2008/11/20/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...

I'm going through a couple older issues and posting the resolutions just in case one of you happen to see the same thing.  The first regards running DBCreateWizard on a 64-bit OS: ======== Issue: The DBCreatewizard utility fails with BadImageformatException...

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...

Just an FYI that Microsoft is offering a free second chance to pass that Microsoft Certification exam as well as a 25% discount on an additional exam. You better hurry though as you have to sign up by December 31st. ======== Second Shot now gives...

Here is an older tip but it's one we use (or some variation) quite a bit in support.  This originally came from Narayana Vyas Kondreddi at http://vyaskn.tripod.com/search_all_columns_in_all_tables.htm so we can't take all the credit.  If you...

In case you missed it, The MOM team announced a new issue they've discovered. Apparently the database discovery scripts can fail on a system that has a DB that is larger than 32GB. I posted the description of the issue and a link below: ======== ...

Here's another cool tip sent to me by Milan Jajal , a support engineer in our Manageability group. If you're trying to create a new Event View using a custom rule and it's not showing up then this may be your issue: ======== Issue: When using the...

Here's a cool tip sent to me by Milan Jajal , a support engineer in our Manageability group. If you ever find the need to create a rule based on the description of an event then this one's for you: ======== If you need to generate an alert based...

Wow, we hit the mother lode this week. We had nine new and one updated Knowledge Base article covering everything from MOM 2005 to OpsMgr 2007 Service Pack 1. Links and titles are below: ======== MOM Ops Mgr Serv Ent Ed 2005 EN 942736 - Some Microsoft...

The esteemed Adrian Doyle sent me some cool registry keys that can be used to control not only what is refreshed but how often it's refreshed within the OpsMgr 2007 admin console.  Please note that we only recommend changing these values upon the...

We had a couple new Management Pack updates released last Friday, one for the Active Directory Management and the other for the DHCP Management Pack.  Windows Server 2008 is now supported for each.  More information and download details can...