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...

If you have installed the Microsoft App-V Management Pack and are wondering why System Center Operations Manager 2007 has failed to detect and to monitor these servers as App-V Servers, then it may be because you have installed App-V 4.5 on an x64 system...

The Intel Core vPro processor Management Pack for System Center Service Manager 2010 is used to provide end users of System Center Service Manager access to KVM Remote Control, IDE-Redirection and Power Control on clients enabled by Intel Core vPro processor...

Here's a heads up on a new System Center Essentials 2010 KB article we recently published.  This article discusses an issue where an existing Active Directory Group Policy Object (GPO) named "SCE Test GPO" may be deleted during the configuration...

Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft System Center. Audience(s): IT Generalist. Duration: 90 Minutes Event Overview The high level steps you will be exercising in this lab are: reading about various topologies, getting an overview of the sizing...

Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft System Center. Audience(s): IT Decision Maker,IT Generalist. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Assessing Your Organization’s Maturity...

Looking for information on the virtualization features in System Center Essentials 2010?  What, you didn't even know SCE 2010 had some awesome virtualization tech in it, including some of the features found in SCVMM?  If so then our very own...

Here's another Opalis Knowledge Base article for you.  I know this isn't Operations Manager specific but I thought some of you might enjoy seeing it anyway.  This one involves an issue where policies in Opalis Integration Server that use the...

Here's another new Opalis KB article you might want to be aware of.  With this issue, when navigating to one or more specific policies using the Opalis Integration Server Client, the client becomes unresponsive for a long period of time before recovering...

Here's another new Knowledge base article for you.  We don't have an Opalis specific support blog so I thought I would go ahead and post it here.  And if you're not running Opalis, why not?! ===== Opalis Integration Server imposes a default...

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...

Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft System Center. Audience(s): IT Decision Maker,IT Generalist. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Learn how Service Manager 2010 works...

This article describes how to configure a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Management Server or a MOM 2005 Agent to generate a readable alert when an SNMP trap is received. This allows you to monitor SNMP-enabled devices and applications by configuring...

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...

Just in case you missed their post last week, The System Center Operations Manager team blog posted a bunch of reporting samples you could use with OpsMgr 2007, including: - "Customer X needs to produce a report that shows the processor, memory,...

Just an FYI on a new KB we published today.  This will eventually show up here but I thought I'd post a heads up since it may take another day or two before the link is live.  As with all Knowledge Base articles we publish, when it does go live...

Back towards the end of last year we announced the acquisition of Opalis Software and so far the integration of the various teams has been going exceptionally well.  We even have some Opalis Knowledge Base articles showing up in our KB.  Here...

I know I've mentioned this here before but in case you haven't seen the TechNet Wiki or had a chance to play with it, let me tell you, you should definitely check this out.  So what makes the TechNet Wiki so different?  Well for starters it...

This management pack monitors the health state of the components in your FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint environment that affect performance and availability. When there is an issue that may cause service or performance degradation, System Center...

In part 1 of this two-part series, I covered some of the more eluding points that are not addressed in the SLD guide, like where to host the SLD components, and accounts required for installation and configuration. This is the second installment of the...

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...

This hotfix for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issue: You import a new management pack that contains new properties for certain views on a computer that is running System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. After you do...

I am really excited to tell you that due to our continued success, Premier Field Engineering in the U.K. is looking to recruit some more Engineers to join our ranks. If you are interested in joining a dynamic and exciting team, and working for a great...

Looks like the WSUS product team announced that new SCE anti-malware definitions are now available for WSUS: Microsoft Security Essentials antimalware definitions are now available via WSUS. Microsoft Security Essentials is a core antimalware service...

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...