A large and sudden increase in the number of alerts is called an alert storm. An alert storm can be a symptom of massive changes of some kind within your management group, such as the catastrophic failure of networks. An alert storm can also be a symptom...

When running System Center Operations Manager 2007 you may notice the following event: Event Type: Warning Event Source: OpsMgr Config Service Event Category: None Event ID: 29106 Date: Time: User: Computer: Description: The request to synchronize...

I’ve had some questions around installing and configuring Service Level Dashboard 2.0 recently, and decided to supplement our official documentation with a more visual step by step article. Before diving into the installation steps, I think it’s imperative...

Here's an issue that was sent to me courtesy of a couple different Support Engineers in our Operations Manager group. Apparently we're getting a call or two on this and they thought it might help if we got the word out. Issue: You may notice that on...

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...

Here's an issue I came across recently that I thought would be worth a mention here on our blog.  The issue is one where the ACS forwarder service shows frequent connections and disconnections on Windows XP POS computers but it could happen on any...

Every once in a while we run across an issue where the cluster state view in System Center Operations Manager 2007 may show a cluster as not monitored.  If you happen to run into this too then here are 4 steps sent to me by Adrian Doyle that should...

We've been getting a few calls on this here in product support so I think it's probably worth a quick mention just in case you happen to run into it too.  Usually the call will start out where the customer says he or she is running System Center...

When you try to import a management pack from Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 to a management group in Operations Manager 2007 R2, the following event is logged: Source: OpsMgr SDK Service Event ID: 26319 Level: Error Keywords: Classic Description...

Just a quick heads-up that the System Center Operations Manager product team has uncovered an issue with the IIS Modules QFE (KB957123) where it may cause the SDK service and Config service to become disabled.  They're working on a fix now but if...

The Key Management Service is used to activate computers running Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Each activation request is logged on the KMS host. The KMS Management Pack collects data from the event logs of defined KMS hosts, and monitors those...

The legendary Steve Rachui has done it again with another great System Center Operations Manager 2007 post, this time describing how you can add your own custom information to the custom alert fields of an alert: Alerts in OpsMgr have lots of good information...

Here’s an interesting issue sent to me by one of the top Tech Leads on our OpsMgr support team by the name Ritesh Grover .  If you’re getting event log related backup errors then this might be what you’re running into: ======== Symptoms: VSS aware...

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...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on SCOM 2007. This one talks about configuration churn, what can cause it and how you can address it if you see it in your environment: ===== Configuration Overview The System Center Management Configuration...

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...

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...

Hi everyone, Alvin Morales here.  This article presents possible errors and issues you may encounter after setting Operations Manager integration with System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2012).  Note that this can apply to System...

Is your System Center Operations Manager 2007 admin console slow when editing groups?  If so, you ought to take a close look at the membership rules, especially if you are using complex regular expression substring searches like below… Searches like...

By default when we request a certificate in System Center Operations Manager 2007, the validity period is 1 year. When the certificate is about to expire you will receive a warning message on the RMS stating that the certificate on the RMS server is due...

This is the much anticipated version that has been updated to support Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 so if you’ve been waiting on this one then your wait is now over: The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 monitoring management pack is designed to be used for...

When you import the converted Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007, a variety of performance and scaling issues may occur, including some or all of the following: 1. MonitoringHost.exe may consume...

I came across some official antivirus exclusion recommendations for MOM 2005 and Operations Manager 2007 that came from Kevin Holman, a Senior PFE out of our Las Colinas office.  If you need to add some exclusions then consider this gospel: ====...

Just an FYI that we just published a new Knowledge Base article that describes how to troubleshoot issues where an agent, management server or gateway in System Center Operations Manager 2007 or System Center Essentials 2007 and 2010 is in a gray state...

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...