Hi everyone, Vikram Sahay here and I’m back again with another interesting topic on System Center Operations Manager 2007. Hope you find it useful. Recently we were working on an  issue where we were getting an alert from few of the SQL servers as...

Here’s another KB article we published today. This one describes a problem where the SCOM 2007 Config Service may consume 100% CPU utilization on servers that have 8 or more cores: ===== Symptoms On machines that have more than eight (8) CPU cores, you...

You may not be able to capture a website using the Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM) Web application monitor on Windows Server 2008 64-bit servers.  When you try, the web sites are browsed but are not saved. Cause In Windows 2008 64-bit server, when...

Updates to the Exchange Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 are now available on the Management Pack Catalog . Changes in This Update : The following list contains the issues that are fixed in version 6.0.6702.0 of the Exchange Server 2003 Management...

Operations Manager Integration and Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Background System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 uses System Center Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the health and availability of the virtual machines and...

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...

Here’s a quick heads up on an issue we ran into the other day. If you’ve noticed that the diagram view for a custom distributed application doesn’t display all of the objects then this may be your issue: ----- Issue: The diagram view for a custom...

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing...

Just an FYI that we recently updated the Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 and the new version is now available for download. Changes in This Update The March 2010 release (version 6.0.6794.0) of the Windows Server...

We recently did an analysis of the issues we’ve been seeing on the Operations Manager product support team and I thought I’d share a couple here just in case you run into any of them.  Below are some of the common problems that customers have been...

The folks over on the System Center Operations Manager product team blog just posted a great article on how by default, the Microsoft Exchange 2007 Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 will not automatically start monitoring of any Exchange 2007...

Here's a great tip from Nicholas Dodge, a senior support engineer on our Manageability team.  In this tip he tells how to configure the Windows Firewall exceptions for SCE 2007: ======== If a firewall is enabled in the deployment environment of System...

In these three short screen casts, IT Pro Evangelist Matt Hester shows how you can use the Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to keep mission-critical, line of business applications up and running. For all the details...

The OpsMgr 2007 R2 Sizing Helper is an interactive document designed to assist you with planning & sizing deployments of Operations Manager 2007 R2. It helps you plan the correct amount of infrastructure needed for a new OpsMgr R2 deployment, removing...

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Update adds fixes for a defunct process issue on Unix/Linux Servers, as well as, adds support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions) and Solaris Zone support. Feature...

After you upgrade to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 you may notice that a management group fails to start and you see the following events being logged: Event Type: Error Event Source: OpsMgr Connector Event Category: None Event ID: 20056 Description...

Just a quick tip in case you run into this. When you run the Operations Manager Gateway Approval Tool you may get the following error: "Unhandled Exception: Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common.DiscoveryDataInvalidRelationshipTargetException: Invalid...

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...

Effective immediately, the Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 Operating System Management Pack (MP) for Operations Manager 2007 is no longer available via the in-console download experience for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Customers looking...

Here's an issue I came across recently that I thought would be worth a mention here on our blog. While using System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 you may be unable to install some agents.  When pushing the agent you may get the following error...

Cumulative Update 2 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2 is now available.  Cumulative Update 2 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2 includes Cumulative Update 1 for System Center Operations Manager...

Tim Helton, a Senior Supoport Escalation Engineer in our North Carolina office, recently posted a cool utility that will reset all of the health monitors on a single agent or all agents so that you can get re-alerted on all current issues even if you...

Just a quick FYI on a new Management Pack we released recently: The Windows Azure Management Pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of applications that are running on Windows Azure. Feature Summary After configuration, the...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on SCOM 2007.  This one talks about an issue where ACS reports only return a max of 42 days worth of data: ===== Symptoms When using System Center Operations Manager 2007, the audit database...

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today: ===== Symptoms A System Center Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr 2007) management server repeatedly logs events that are similar to the following: Event Type: Information Event Source: OpsMgr...