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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 released to the Web

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 has released to the Microsoft download site and is available via the following link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=df07094c-59e9-4ce6-9802-478c35c12614&DisplayLang=en Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:49 AM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments
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Operations Manager 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update Released to the Web

An update has been released to the backward compatibility MP's for Operations Manager 2007. These MP's are installed by default during a Management Server install and to update them you will need to import the new MP's extracted by this MSI. The updates Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:51 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Updated Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 released to the Web

An updated version of the SQL Server 2000-2005 management pack for MOM 2005 have been released to the Web http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=79f151c7-4d98-4c2b-bf72-ec2b4ae69191&DisplayLang=en this includes updated support for Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:30 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

MOM 2005 Windows Server Base OS MP 05.0.3500.0010 supporting Windows Server 2003 R2 has been re-released to the Web

For those with a long memory, you may recall the Server Base OS MP 05.0.3500.0000 was withdrawn last October a short time after its release, due to technical issues. The most prevelent issue was that MOM agents could fail to restart on boot. See my earlier Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 3:49 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB937826 - How to upgrade the 180-day evaluation version of System Center Operations Manager 2007 to the full product version

KB937826 is in the process of publication and should be available via the following link http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937826 Introduction You can upgrade the 180-day evaluation version of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to the full Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:53 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 Performance And Scalability Whitepaper has now moved from the Connect site to Microsoft Downloads

In order to make it easier to obtain the Perf and Scale Whitepaper has moved to the Microsoft downloads site. Here's the link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a1b7610d-3dbe-4e51-bcb3-446d50dadf14&DisplayLang=en Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 26, 2007 8:08 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Management Pack Authoring Console help file released for Operations Manager 2007

The Operations Manager 2007 authoring console is currently still in beta and is available from http://connect.microsoft.com via the System Center Operations and Service Management connection. The help file for the Authoring console, which discusses MP Read More...
Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 3:13 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

Tool to dump all MP's as XML (Unsealed) to a folder of your choice - Updated (Now version 2.0)

Well it's easy enough to do in PowerShell but there are a few caveats involved. I'm running System Center Essentials, I don't have Powershell. Or, I'm sitting at my desk wanting to examine the MP's on my fancy new Vista OS; do I really have to walk all Read More...
Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 2:39 PM by CliveEastwood | 4 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 and Essentials Hotfixes released to solve Reporting install issues covering: (1) Install failure when SDK account is Local System KB936219 , 2) Failure to install in a disjointed namespace

Two hotfixes have been released and are currently only available through Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS). You will not be charged for the support incident. System Center Operations Manager 2007 Hotfix details The forthcoming KB article ( unpublished Read More...
Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 10:55 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB937050 - Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Administrative console does not display the correct scope for some user accounts

KB937050 will be available via the following link shortly http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937050 Symptoms Users are assigned a specific console scope in Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. These users open the MOM 2005 Administrator console. However, Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:35 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB936178 - Error message when you try to import a management pack in System Center Essentials 2007: "OutOfMemoryException"

KB936178 has been released http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936178 SYMPTOMS When you try to import a management pack in Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007, the console stops responding. Then, you receive the following error message: OutOfMemoryException Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:11 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Alert Resolution States / Auto-Resolve settings dialog is not present within the System Center Essentials 2007 UI

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 administrator console contains a settings dialog for Alert resolution states and auto-resolve settings which is not present in System Center Essentials 2007. The console dialog was removed from Essentials to reduce Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 10:42 AM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

KB934757 - Error message when you click Record after you start the Web Application Editor in Operations Manager 2007: "The requested lookup key was not found in any activation context"

KB934757 ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934757 ) has been released SYMPTOMS When you open the Web Application Editor - ApplicationName dialog box, and then you click Start capture to monitor a Web browser session in Microsoft Systems Center Operations Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:41 AM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

KB934756 - How to test notification settings after you configure e-mail notifications for a recipient or for a subscription in Operations Manager 2007

KB934756 ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934756 ) has been released INTRODUCTION This article describes how to test the notification settings after you configure e-mail notifications in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. MORE INFORMATION Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:40 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB934760 - Error message when you try to install a management agent in Operations Manager 2007: "Unknown error 0x80072971"

KB934760 ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934760 ) has been released SYMPTOMS When you try to install a management agent on a remote computer in Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007, you receive the following error message in the Agent Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:38 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB937292 - Error message when you run the Operations Manager Prerequisite Viewer for the Server component: "Microsoft.interop.security.azroles.dll is not registered in the global assembly cache"

KB937292 has now been published http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937292 SYMPTOMS When you run the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Prerequisite Viewer for the Server component, the prerequisite check returns the following failure status: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:26 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB919598 - When you try to import a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 report file, the import process fails (UPDATED)

KB919598 ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919598 ) has been recently updated to reflect the fact that all management packs affected have now been published to the Web with updated reports. There is no longer the need to contact Microsoft Customer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:24 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Windows Vista Client Monitoring MP for OpsMgr07 Released to the Web

The Vista monitoring MP is now available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a2d42208-d4fd-46a6-9e8d-0ff7694b5634&DisplayLang=en Overview The Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack is built on the Windows Diagnostics Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 9:46 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

SMS 2003 SP3 MP Guide For OpsMgr07 Available for download

The SMS 2003 MP Guide for OpsMgr07 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5a512803-01d2-4ae0-8c9e-4030271fb4ce&DisplayLang=en Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 9:45 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

WSUS 3.0 MP For MOM 2005 released

The WSUS 3.0 MP for MOM 2005 has been released http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b9eb24e0-93df-430e-9ea7-e46f09a6ab80&DisplayLang=en Overview The WSUS 3.0 Management Pack helps you diagnose and resolve the issues reported as Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 9:41 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments
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KB924043 - Active Directory Management Pack reports contain incorrect data after you install Multiple Management Group Rollup Solution Accelerator in a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 environment

KB924043 has been released http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924043 SYMPTOMS Consider the following scenario. You install Multiple Management Group Rollup Solution Accelerator in a Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 environment. Then, you use Multiple Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 9:05 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 Web Console returns Server Error in '/' Application - Requested value 'UrlViewType' was not found.

This issue occurs when a new Web Page View is created in the Operations Manager 2007 console. This view is not supported in the Web console which causes this error to be displayed. Microsoft are currently working on a fix for this issue. I'll blog details Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 10:07 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Essentials Reporting features will fail to install in a disjointed DNS namespace

This is currently a known issue. The Reporting install will roll back when installed in a disjointed namespace. The symptoms can be the same as those for http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936219 (Error message when you try to install System Center Operations Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 9:59 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB936219 - Error message when you try to install System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting: "The wizard was interrupted before Operations Manager 2007 could be installed"

KB936219 has been released http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936219 CAUSE This problem occurs if you configure Operations Manager 2007 to use the Local System account as the OpsMgr SDK Service account. In this configuration, the installation queries Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 9:36 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Not able to see all servers in my Availability Reporting reports for MOM 2005

Seeing these symptoms? Even after rebooting and waiting a long period of time for availability data to be collected from servers, they still don't appear on reports OR Servers appear on reports but their availability metrics appear static between report Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 4:06 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Can I upgrade from the Operations Manager 2007 Evaluation version to the full version? - Why, sure you can

The Operations Manager 2007 180-day evaluation version downloadable from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/eval/opsmgr/default.mspx can be upgraded to the full volume licensed edition without the necessity of installing new binaries. In order Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 2:28 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

How to configure Audit Collection System (ACS) to use Certificate based authentication

The documentation for this is yet to be published. Since I configured this recently and it's fresh in my mind I thought I'd commit to blog for posterity. Let me know if you found it useful and specifically if you did use the steps and found they need Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 2:11 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

KB934441 - Event ID: 26009 occurs after a MOM 2005 agent tries to fail over to the secondary MOM 2005 server

KB934441 has been released http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934441 If you have multiple management servers with agents configured for failover and one of the managment server goes off-line agents may be refused a connection to the failover management Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 10:42 AM by CliveEastwood | 4 Comments

The SMS 2003 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 is now available

The SMS 2003 Management Pack is now available from the download site at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BDCA74EE-D493-4F68-BDDD-AC7EE38D8745&displaylang=en Also available via the management pack catalog http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/catalog/catalog.aspx?vs=2007 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:14 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

OpsMgr07 PreReq returns Microsoft.interop.security.azroles.dll is not registered in the global assemby cache

KB is forthcoming on this issue. If you receive the above prereq error when running the Operations Manager 2007 Prerequisite checker you are likely seeing the issue documented in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915786 (Authorization Manager-enabled applications Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:00 AM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 SDK Documentation Released to MSDN

The Operations Manager 2007 SDK documentation is now available on MSDN online : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb437575.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:35 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Using certificates with OpsMgr07 Agents and Workgroup computers

If it's not necessary to use a Gateway server in a situation where mutual authentication is not possible, for instance a small number of agents in an untrusted domain, DMZ or workgroup, the agents can be configured to use certificate based authentication Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:46 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments
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KB936221 - The Run As Account that you create in System Center Operations Manager 2007 or in System Center Essentials 2007 does not run a task successfully

KB936221 has been released to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936221/en-us Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:18 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB936579 - The Operations Manager Audit Collection Service does not start and Event ID 4668 is logged after you install Audit Collection Server from a read-only source

As previously mentioned on my blog that a KB was forthcoming. KB936579 is now published http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936579/en-us Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:15 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

System Center Essentials 2007 Has RTM'ed ! - Eval version available for download

System Center Essentials 2007, AKA SCE has RTM'ed. The English version is currently available for evaluation via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sce/2007/evaluate/default.mspx with other languages releasing over the coming months. See the following site Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:07 AM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 Security Guide Released to the Web

The Operations Manager 2007 Security Guide has been released to accompany the other documentation released so far. See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852ed79859&DisplayLang=en There is an error in Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:55 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments
 
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