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We have released CU6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 includes all previous cumulative updates for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and includes all cross-platform updates. To download Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2, go to...

This week I started to play with Windows 8 and of course one of the first things I looked for was PowerShell 3.0 And then I found a great blogpost on the PowerShellMagazine website by Shay Levy where he shows how find all the changes between the two versions of PowerShell (v2 and v3). That’s when I thought...

Last week I was asked to help a customer with the configuration of an OpsMgr 2007 R2 connector. Because I had not much hands on experience with the installation and configuration of the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Connectors I installed an configured the Universal Connector in my own test/demo environment. And because...

Some weeks ago I saw a question about how to use PowerShell for the ApproveCredentialForDistribution method. This Method Approves a secure credential for distribution to a list of MonitoringObject objects or PartialMonitoringObject objects. Calling this method adds the specified list to the already existing...

Just in case you were interested in test driving Operations Manager 2007 R2, we published a VHD several days ago, you can download it here . Jeremy Pavleck questioned why it’s only available as a 13 part RAR file, and doesn’t use the typical MS File Transfer Manager like we get on MSDN to download it...

Today I got an internal email telling me that there is new Reporting Documentation for OpsMgr on Microsoft Technet . And I also got a question about information about the SQL Schema’s of the OpsMgr Databases. In the past I’ve blogged about a tool (SqlSpec) that could help finding the Database Schema...

How often do you get the question: “What Monitors, Rules and Discoveries are running on an OpsMgr Agent?” from your co-workers? Especially when they don’t have a clue what is being monitored for their servers. Most of the time you just use the EffectiveConfigurationViewer from the OpsMgr Resource Kit...

Source: System Center Central   I just found this QuickTrick on System Center Central and I could not believe I didn’t know this trick… If you want to Select All or Unselect all in some of the Report Parameters boxes you can just right-click and there it is. Let’s take a look at the Overrides Report...

Have you ever tried to download the files on the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation webpage ? On this page you find all the technical documentation for Operations Manager 2007 R2. Pretty handy to have them downloaded on you workstation for offline reading. But as you see you need...

Lately I’ve been busy creating some OpsMgr Custom Reports for customers and wanted to share some tips & tricks for creating custom OpsMgr Reports. Hope you can use them in your own custom OpsMgr Reports. First some background info on what to use for creating Custom OpsMgr Reports. What do...

In these three short screencasts, 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.  The dashboard automatically displays application or system availability...

Today I created a video demonstrating monitoring your Unix and Linux servers with OpsMgr 2007 R2 for the Dutch LinuxWorld expo next week. I created this video so I can also have a moment to look around at the LinuxWorld Expo ;-) It’s part of a rolling presentation so I didn’t added any sound to it, but...

I just downloaded and installed the latest version of Savision Live Maps in my demo environment and started creating a new List View for my Linux servers. The new release of Live Maps 4.1 for Operations Manager R2 contains, besides some fixes and performance improvements, a number of new features...

Today I got a friendly email from Markus Schneider about the general availability of OpenUMR on CodePlex. I was interested in this project but it was not open for public yet. But now it is and it looks very cool. OpenUMR (Open Universal Message Receiver) OpenUMR offers the capability to integrate...

I’m currently busy with learning more about Crossplatform monitoring with OpsMgr 2007 R2 and stumbled on Logging on the Unix Agent for troubleshooting issues. As you may know on the Linux agent you can troubleshoot, manage and manually control the agent by using the scxadmin tool. /opt/microsoft/scx...

How cool is this? Coretech has created a coffee monitor MP. This management packs can be used to keep track of the level of coffee in left in the pot. With this management pack, you will never run dry of, what we all know, is the most important part of a productive environment! This is mostly made as...

Now the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit has been released you may want to know more about Authoring in OpsMgr 2007 R2. Did you know you can find all that info on Microsoft TechNet ? Check them out!

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit is now available for download on Microsoft Download Center .   Overview The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Resource Kit will install the Authoring console, which aids customers in creating and modifying operations management...

There is an updated version of the Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for OpsMgr and Windows Deployment Services. The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager outlines the critical infrastructure design elements that are crucial to a successful implementation...

Today I am at a customer who has installed the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Evaluation version and wanted to know when the evaluation periods ends. I thought the easiest way would be look at the install date of the RMS and add 180 days. So I created a PowerShell script to do that for me. $InstallDate = get-managementserver...

Source: Notes on System Center Operations Manager I’ve updated my OpsMgr toolbox collection with a new tool from Marius Sutara called RuntimeHealthExplorer . This tool helps someone with investigation of health state issues. This is what Marius tells about this new OpsMgr tool. “Did you ever wonder what...

Did you know that in PowerShell V2 using a Web service is very easy with the new Cmdlet New-WebServiceProxy? This would become very handy if the ManagementPackCatalogWebservice had a WSDL ;-) Then we could do some very cool stuff with the ManagementPack Catalog Webservice… Now we have to wait if there...

Source: System Center Operations Manager blog The Visio Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 combines the strengths of two applications widely used in enterprise IT to simplify the creation of customized graphical dashboards showing the health of an environment. Examples of such diagrams...

There are new downloads available for OpsMgr 2007 R2 on Connect. Bulk URL Editor (BUE) for Operations Manager R2 With Operations Manager 2007 R2, you can now monitor up to 1000 URLs per watcher node and 3000 URLs per management group. However, creating the monitors for that number of URLs has been time...

Source: Microsoft Technet Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Audience(s): IT Professional. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Join us for this informative session on deploying Microsoft...