We've been highlighting a few problems we see around here doing support for OpsMgr and ConfigMgr so I thought I'd offer up one of my own. If you run into this it can be tricky to troubleshoot but with the tips below, fixing this should be a snap. ...

When trying to define software metering rules in the SMS 2003 Admin console, it has been noticed that using a language like 'English (United States)' in the language section of the metering rules may not provide satisfactory metering results depending...

We had a couple new KB articles this week, one covering System Center Operations Manager 2007 and one covering Systems Management Server.  Links and titles are below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950653 A software inventory operation...

We're seeing a few instances of the issue below so I thought I'd send out a preemptive heads up.  If you happen to run across this issue at least now you'll know the fix: ======== Problem: After a WSUS 2.0 SP1 or WSUS 3.0 server are upgraded to WSUS...

Here's a problem we run into every now and again that I thought you'd be interested in reading about.  It's not super common but just in case you see it, now you'll know how to fix it. ======== PROBLEM: After the installation of System Center Operations...

We only had one new Knowledge Base article and it's on System Center Mobile Device Manager.  If you're one of the many running this cool new product then you'll definitely want to check it out: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950135 Insufficient...

This has been out for a couple weeks but people are having a hard time finding it so I thought I'd post a link here.  Just in case you're not familiar with Asset Intelligence, here is some cool marketing type verbiage that may help explain it: =...

One of our senior PM's posted about a new doc that should be hitting the web either today or tomorrow that talks about the limitations of Asset Intelligence Reporting.  Most of the issues we see seem to center around misunderstandings regarding what...

We get quite a few questions about it so I thought I'd post instructions here. If you're wanting to install Audit Reporting this is the way to do it: ======== 1. Logon to the server that will be used to host ACS reporting as a user that is an administrator...

We have a live TechNet Webcast coming up a week from Friday (4/25) at 8:00am Pacific time that some of you may be interested in.  It's a level 200 overview of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and should be pretty informative. ...

We had six new KB articles last week concerning OpsMgr 2007, ConfigMgr 2007 and Mobile Device Manager 2008.  Titles and links are below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950782 How to replace Windows AIK version 1.0 with Windows AIK version...

We've had a couple calls on this so I thought I'd send out a heads up just in case you run into it: ======== Problem: The AD_Replication_Monitoring.vbs script from the Active Directory Management pack may fail to run and an alert similar to below...

We had three new KB articles last week concerning MOM 2005, ConfigMgr 2007 and WSUS 3.0.  Titles and links are below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=949874 The MOM service may crash when you run the discovery process on many agent computers...

Good morning and Happy Monday!  To start off this week, the Security Solution Accelerator team has just released a new Beta. The solution accelerator is called Security Compliance Management and I included a description and download link below. ...

Just a quick heads up that we released an updated version of the Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 Management Pack .  This management pack monitors Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 (obviously) and includes the following features and changes...

Yesterday we release the System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM) 2008 Resource Kit Tools via the System Center Mobile Device Manager TechNet site .  It's kind of hard to find unless you know what you're looking for but here's some info on what...

I was reviewing some of the calls we've been getting lately and this one seems to be popular so I thought I'd post a quick resolution in case you run into it: ======= Problem: When you use MOM 2005 to monitor a Microsoft Windows 2000-based or Microsoft...