For the week of 11-23 through 11-29 we had five updated and two new Knowledge Base articles on everything from SMS 2.0 to Configuration Manager 2007.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Mgmt Svr 2.0 SP2 EN 273476 - SMS: Buffer Overrun Problem in Several Network Monitor Parsers Published -...

Sorry for the delay in posting the new KB's but I took a couple days for Thanksgiving and I'm just now getting caught back up.  For the week of 11-16 through 11-22 we had twelve updated and four new Knowledge Base articles on everything from SMS 2.0 to Mobile Device Manager 2008.  Links and...

Wow, we hit the mother lode this week.  We had ten new and nine updated Knowledge Base articles covering everything from SMS 1.2 to OpsMgr 2007 Service Pack 1.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Mgmt Svr 2.0 SP2 EN 328386 - How to extend the Sms_def.mof file by using the Windows Management...

If you're in charge of administering ConfigMgr or OpsMgr or SMS or MOM or whatever, chances are you're pretty concerned with making sure you're aware of any new Knowledge Base articles as quickly as possible.  That's why you subscribe to this blog and others like it. Being aware of this concern...

We've been kind of ConfigMgr/SMS heavy lately so I thought maybe we'd do a couple posts on MOM/OpsMgr to try to even things out a little.  Today is a troubleshooting tip for MOM 2005 from Milan Jajal: ======== Issue: After importing the Data Protection Manager 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005,...

We had one new and four updated Knowledge Base articles for the week - one on OpsMgr 2007 and four on MOM.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Center Ops Mgr 2007 SP1 958170 - Description of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Published...

We had seven new Knowledge Base articles for the week: Two on SMS 2003, one on MOM 2005, one on System Center ConfigMgr 2007 and three on System Center Operations Manager 2007. The links and titles are below: ======== Sys Mgmt Svr Ent Ed 2003 EN 838891 - You may receive status message ID 4963 or...

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 Windows Server 2003-based domain controller...

Here's our latest batch of newly published KB articles: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944693 Software updates cannot be deployed if the software update catalogs that are imported by System Center Updates Publisher 3.0 contain a /qn switch in the command line Sys Center Config Manager 2007 AL EN...

We had a couple recent additions to our System Center Pack Catalog you might be interested in. The entire catalog can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/catalog.aspx but the table below includes those published in the last week: Top of Form System Center...

Recently I was talking to a friend of mine who was trying to troubleshoot a custom process and he wanted to know if there was any way to track how many times it restarts using OpsMgr 2007.  It seems the process would randomly terminate without throwing any error at all and as a workaround it was...

During the course of your OpsMgr 2007 admin duties you may find it necessary to view or change the action account that OpsMgr uses to run processes and scripts and much much more.  So what is the action account?  Several MOM processes run under this account, including the processes that host...

Here's a tip on an issue we seem to be seeing every so often.  We've had a few calls lately where when running reports for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, you may experience some of the following symptoms: - Reports run slow. - Reports run for hours before completing. - Reports run for hours...

In MOM 2005 you may have found that it is easy to set up a notification when a service goes down and comes back up, but what if you wanted to get an alert every so often while the service was down until it came back up? This is something that is much easier to do in SCOM 2007, but if you haven’t upgraded...

Here are the latest: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942536 You cannot move created objects into a folder or out of a folder if the folder was created on a secondary site of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 10/24/2007 Sys Center Config Manager 2007 AL SMS Server EN-US http://support...

The release candidate for Service Pack 1 for Operations Manager 2007 is ready for download from https://connect.microsoft.com/systemcenter .  If you haven't already registered you'll need to do so before the RC is available under 'Available Connections.' The high level themes of this service pack...

We have seen some cases where folks attempt to run a report and instead of data they get a message that says :"No matching records could be found".  A different variation of this issue is a complaint that over time fewer and fewer machines appear in a given report.  Both issues have...

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http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937532 When you create a configuration baseline rule that includes more than 300 software updates in System Center Configuration Manager 2007, the configuration baseline is not evaluated correctly Sys Center Config Manger 2007 AL SMS Server EN-US http://support.microsoft...

Here's the list of new Knowledge Base articles we published last week: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=935914 You cannot use task sequence bootable media to run a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 image advertisement Sys Center Config Manager 2007 AL EN-US http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid...

Boris Yanushpolsky recently blogged about a utility he wrote that allows you to disable or enable multiple rules, monitors or discoveries at once over on his MSDN blog . If you haven't seen it you might want to check it out. It's been out there a couple weeks so it may be old news to some of you but...

Here's a list of the new SMS, MOM and System Center Knowledge Base articles that published between August 26th and September 1st. Hope these help! http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936161 The MOM service may crash in discovery in MOM 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937470 A notification subscription...

The KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915786/en-us which applies to Windows Server 2003 SP1 will undergo a slight update shortly for Operations Manager 2007. A few people have hit the issue I documented here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937292/en-us (Error message when you run the Operations...

The MOM 2005 agent is now supported on Windows Vista (Enterprise, Business & Ultimate). See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/mom2005/vista.mspx The MOM 2005 Administrator and Operations consoles have also been tested and are not known to cause any issues. A KB article confirming...

The Virtual Server 2005 R2 Management pack is due to be refreshed (not an update) very shortly. The Release and Update History on the download page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bf21f798-9b10-40dc-bcdd-4a8358cce94d&DisplayLang=en will show the most recent date (I'll guess...