Here's a great tip sent to me by Sam Allen, one of the top Support Escalation Engineers in our Texas office.  If you find that some of your agents are reporting to the wrong server or are generating OpsMgr Connector sourced 20064 events then this...

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: ====...

We had two updated and one new Knowledge Base articles for the week.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN 947691 - When you try to install a System Center Operations Manager 2007 agent on a workgroup computer without...

I want to highlight an issue with the Exchange 2007 Management Pack (MP) in terms of disk monitoring that we see every now and then. Essentially the MP looks at all disks and generates alerts if any of the disks are low on space.  The only problem...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Confused about monitoring System Center Configuration Manager with Operations Manager in a 64-bit environment?  If so then My Phuong Le over on the Configuration Manager Team Blog   has a great post that should clear things up a little:  ...

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...

Have you ever downloaded an OpsMgr 2007 Management Pack but had trouble figuring out what's new, what's changed or even how to use it?  If so then what you'll want to do is check out the MP's corresponding Management Pack Guide.  Out on our...

If you've been an Operations Manager admin for any length of time you've probably had a need to discover security group membership for your various agent computers so if this is you then this is your lucky day.  Over on Steve Rachui's manageability...

Last week we had three new System Center Operations Manager 2007 related Knowledge Base articles.  The links and titles are below: ======== KB961725 - DBCreateWizard.exe fails with an Exception when run on a 64-bit OS Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007...

This may be old news to some of you but I've been out of the office for a couple weeks and I came across this as I was clearing out my Inbox.  Back on December 19th we released an update to the Windows Server DNS 2000/2003/2008 Management Pack for...

I just got back from a week long vacation and I’m still trying to get caught up, so if you’re wondering what happened to all the posts you’re used to seeing around here then that’s why it’s been pretty dead lately.  It may continue to be slow for...

Steve Rachui has a good tip on using our Best Practice Analysis tool over on his Manageability blog.  If you’ve never seen this tool before then you’ll want to read this one: If you work with OpsMgr you work with management packs in some form - either...

The Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 team blog has a great post on using SiteName when deploying gateways to help manage alerts in case you haven’t seen it.  This one comes from Rob Kuehfus and he includes a high level overview as well as a...

Just an FYI that the Operations Manager product team published a couple known issues regarding the latest cluster Management Pack  If you use this MP or plan on doing so soon then you’ll want to check this out.  I have the meat of their post...

The Exchange 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005 was recently updated to support the changes to performance counter names in Exchange 2007 SP1. One of the reports included in this management pack was not changed to support the renamed performance counters...

Last week we had three new Knowledge Base articles for System Center Operations Manager 2007 and one new article for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM 2005).   The links and titles for each are below: KB969286 - A script that was embedded...

Everywhere you look these days it’s all about blogs.  Blogs here, blogs there, they’re all over the place.  So have you ever wondered how many different blogs Microsoft hosts? Let me tell, you don’t want to know.  Let’s just say it’s thousands...

What’s this?  A post on System Center Essentials?  And you thought we only covered Operations Manager and MOM.  Well here’s an issue that seems to pop up every now and then so in case you run into it at least now you’ll know how to fix...