Here's another interesting issue I came across the other day that I thought I would share with you just in case you happen to find yourself in a similar situation.  Hopefully if you do then this will help you get all this working the way it should...

System Center Operations Manager 2007 uses mutual authentication to communication with the agents. First the agent will try to communicate with Kerberos and when this is not possible certificates will be used for the secure communication.  If you...

Frequently we get customers using System Center Operations Manager 2007 who claim that they are not getting alerts on agent availability when the server has been shutdown. Many times what they actually mean is they are not being notified, so you first...

When using SQL Server 2008 R2 as the database server for the System Center Operations Manager 2007 operationsmanager database, the SQL server service may use 100% CPU when SCOM 2007 triggers configuration update requests. For example, when we make a change...

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...

System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 is a new management solution specifically designed for IT professionals working in midsize businesses who often face IT challenges similar to those of larger enterprises—troubleshooting user problems, automating management...

Just an FYI that we have a new Knowledge Base article available for System Center Operations Manager 2007.  This one is about an error message you might get when you try to perform a distributed installation of the System Center Operations Manager...

With the impending release of System Center 2012 Operations Manager, we thought now would be the perfect time to consolidate our blog properties and give you a single, concise gateway into the world of all that is Operations Manager. No longer will we...

Using System Center Operations Manager 2007, you want to get an alert for any change in the domain admin group or any other group for that matter. If this is something you think you might want to configure then here are the steps to set this up: Note...

Hi, Eddy Pacay here, and I wanted to share a couple notes on using the SharePoint 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007). The SharePoint 2010 MP Guide does not say anything specific on how to set this up around multiple...

This is an older troubleshooting article that was originally posted on our old SMS&MOM blog back in July of 2008 but since we still get a few calls on this I thought it was worth repeating here. If you need to troubleshoot console performance in System...

Hi Everyone, my name is Prakash and I recently worked an interesting case that I wanted to share with you here.  The issue was that whenever you tried to run a report in System Center Operations Manager 2007 you would receive this error: Error message...

Summary This article is intended to give some best practice guidance along with workarounds to known issues involving the Exchange 2010 Management Pack (MP) running on System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM). Please look through this document before...

UPDATED 08/17/2009: This issue has been resolved with Knowledge Base article 968760: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968760 . ======== Here’s kind of an interesting issue I thought we should probably give you a heads up on. It’s not really a ‘problem...

What is Standard Data Set Maintenance? Standard Data Set Maintenance is a workflow that runs against the Data Warehouse to aggregate, optimize, and groom data. This workflow runs on the RMS and is triggered every 60 seconds. There is a hard-coded timeout...

Here’s another cool article by Microsoft’s own Jeanie Decker that I found over in our TechNet Wiki .  This one goes over some examples of dynamic  groups in System Center Operations Manager.  Do you have examples of dynamic group formulas...

Ever wanted to setup IM notifications in SCOM 2007?  Well here are the 6 steps you’ll need to follow to get this configured:   1.    Create the Notification Action Account: a.    Create a domain user account and...

Have you ever found yourself in need of putting a group of systems into Maintenance Mode in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2?  If so you can use the script below.  Note that in SCOM 2007 R2 there is no need to put the health service...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on VMM 2012 and SCOM. This one talks about a couple potential integration issues you may run into after configuring OpsMgr integration with System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager: ===== Symptoms...

If you’re looking for a good resource for troubleshooting OpsMgr 2007 client agent install issues then this new KB article we published today is for you: ===== Symptoms The System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007) agent can be deployed to Windows...

I know this is a little bit off topic but it’s cool enough that I thought you might appreciate a heads up, plus it can’t be all OpsMgr all the time can it?  Anyway, a few days ago we launched the Microsoft Automated Troubleshooting Services where...

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...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where a restricted user can attempt certain actions that they don't have permission to yet get a (false) message indicating it was successful. ===== Symptoms When using...

Here’s an issue we see on a fairly regular basis around here that I thought would be worth a quick post. This one is concerning an error you may get when trying to install Service Pack 1 for System Center Operations Manager 2007: “Error 25218: Failed...

I recently ran across an issue where notification subscriptions were getting disabled every 30 minutes. The strange thing was that only about half of the subscriptions were being disabled and they were the same subscriptions every time. I tried re-enabling...