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October 2007 - Posts

KB941557 - Management servers that are running the release version of System Center Operations Manager 2007 do not process the agent event data from an agent of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

This is one of two hotfix KB articles being released in conjunction with the OpsMgr07 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (general availability on track ETA next week). This will be required if multihoming an SP1 RC (eventually SP1 RTM) agent to an Operations Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:15 PM by CliveEastwood | 2 Comments

MP Re-release - DHCP 2000/2003 for OpsMgr07 (Version 6.0.5000.41)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2694e87c-76e0-417b-ad0f-5897e46fff88&DisplayLang=en The DHCP MP has been refreshed to correct a further problem in the DHCP 2000 Scope Monitoring script. This should prevent script errors in Read More...
Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 7:58 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

New MP - Server Virtualization Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (1.0.2627.0000)

The Virtual Server MP for Opsmgr07 is now available via http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=de65b061-49bb-4619-9b2c-31d0f165221f&DisplayLang=en This MP contains the Virtual Server 2005 R2 Management pack and SC VMM MP's Overview Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 11:41 AM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

New MP -System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (1.0.2627.0000)

The System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 is now available via http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fd03b1e6-d7a8-44b4-bc2f-676565d042c2&DisplayLang=en This contains the Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 11:39 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB938994 - The discovery process does not find computers that are present in your domain in Operations Manager 2007

Another recent KB article published http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938994/en-us SYMPTOMS When you use the "Computer and Device Management Wizard" in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager to perform computer discovery, the discovery process does Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 8:30 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB938999 - You cannot configure a rule or a monitor to target a computer group in the Operations console in System Center Operations Manager 2007

This KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938999/en-us was published last month and I missed the notification here. SYMPTOMS In Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, you use the Operations console to configure a rule or a monitor to target a Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 8:26 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

New KB: 941985 - A management group that contains an Exchange Server computer may intermittently stop receiving new alerts in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941985/en-us SYMPTOMS A management group that contains an Exchange Server computer may intermittently stop receiving new alerts in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. This problem occurs until you take one Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 8:17 AM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

New KB:943307 - Discovery information is missing after you delete and then reimport a management pack in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943307/en-us SYMPTOMS When you delete and then immediately reimport a management pack in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, and then you view the contents of the management pack, the management pack is missing Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 8:00 AM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

New KB: 943239 - Best practices to use when you configure overrides in System Center Operations Manager 2007

This KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943239/en-us discusses best practices for using overrides, where to store them, implimenting them correctly, and knowing that in some MP's a number of rules and monitors may actually share the same override parameter Read More...
Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 7:57 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

MPUpdate (Doc's Only) Microsoft Windows Domain Name System 2000, 2003 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (6.0.5000.0)

The Microsoft Windows Domain Name System 2000, 2003 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 has been has been updated to include an OpsMgr07 specific MP Guide http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=633b718f-5fe8-47d5-a395-8203f8ec354f&DisplayLang=en Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 3:42 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

MPUpdate (Doc's Only) Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Operating System Management Pack (6.0.5000.25)

The Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Operating System Management Pack has been updated to include an OpsMgr07 specific MP Guide http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3529d233-5e3e-4b51-8f66-5d6f27005ec3&DisplayLang=en The version Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:54 PM by CliveEastwood | 3 Comments

Office Communication Server 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005 (Version 3.0.6362.4)

The Office Communication Server 2007 for MOM 2005 has been released http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d04a9eb0-1f67-4535-b865-843621a1b16e&DisplayLang=en Overview The Office Communications Server 2007 Management Pack for MOM Read More...
Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 5:31 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments
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Exchange 2007 MP Release notes now available

The release notes for the Exchange MP have been released to the Web and are available via http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96219 Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 12:35 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Some Notification properties that may prove useful

These will end up being published in a KB article shortly. But since I have them, they are worth publishing here. In addition to the notification properties you are able to add via Settings,Notification from the Administration space for Global notification Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 12:31 PM by CliveEastwood | 8 Comments

KB942862 - The installation of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting Server feature on a domain controller is now supported

This KB now discusses support for installing an OpsMgr reporting server on a DC (if required, but not recommended) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942862/en-us Therefore the statement (Operations Manager 2007 does not support the installation of the Reporting Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 9:01 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB942865 - Error message when you try to generate a report in System Center Operations Manager 2007: "Cannot initialize report"

This KB discusses an issue seen when using DBCreateWizard tool to create a datawarehouse db. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942865/en-us for details. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 8:55 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB942866 - A computer agent unexpectedly generates heartbeat alerts after you put it into Maintenance mode in System Center Operations Manager 2007

The KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942866/en-us discussing the behaviour of maintenance mode when you need to completely take a computer offline in OpsMgr07/Essentials is now available. See AgentMM ( http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2007/09/18/agentmm-a-command-line-tool-to-place-opsmgr-agents-into-maintenance-mode.aspx Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 8:52 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Updated MP - OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update (6.0.5000.16)

The backward compatibility MP has been updated which is a requirement for the release of the Exchange 2007 MP for OpsMgr07 Details from the download page http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=655cdd06-861e-4342-99b2-8a81e09f6546&DisplayLang=en Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 8:13 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

New MP - Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (6.0.5000.0)

The Exchange 2007 for OpsMgr07 has been release http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1a83e112-8677-4e03-83c3-f1b7ebfc3a4b&DisplayLang=en This MP has a dependency on the Backward compatibility MP 6.0.5000.16 (or above) also released Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 8:04 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB942864 - How to use diagnostic tracing in System Center Operations Manager 2007 and in System Center Essentials 2007

This KB article is finally available :) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942864/en-us The thing to note here is that BID/ETW tracing within OpsMgr and Essentials is currently not customer consumable (sorry). Trace conversion to human readable text requires Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:03 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB943111 - Description of System Center Essentials 2007 post-release hotfix rollup

Here is the KB article referencing the recently released hotfix rollup for System Center Essentials 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943111/en-us Also see my previous post on the subject here http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2007/09/28/system-center-essentials-post-rtm-hotfix-rollup-released-to-the-web.asp Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:25 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB942863 - How to collect and monitor UNIX Syslogs in System Center Operations Manager 2007 or in System Center Essentials 2007

Finally it released http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942863/en-us based on my previous posting http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2007/09/07/generating-alerts-from-unix-linux-syslog-messages-in-operations-manager-2007.aspx Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:14 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

New MP - ForeFront Client Health MP for MOM 2005 (version 01.0.0000.000)

The ForeFront team have released a client health MP for MOM 2005. Available from the download site here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0672b4ca-c6dc-4093-bae6-30eb1560a429&DisplayLang=en Overview The Forefront Client Security Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:21 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments
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New MP Released - Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 has been released and is available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e4e84ae5-21d2-4d12-91e0-3e0ff07aeb19&DisplayLang=en Verion Read More...
Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 10:30 AM by CliveEastwood | 2 Comments
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New Converted Operations Manager MP's released to Web - Live Communications Server 2005, Compute Cluster, Active Directory Federation Services

The following converted MOM 2005 management packs for Operations Manager 2007 have released to the Web Live Communications Server 2005 (6.0.5000.0) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e0f61db-5d18-4a1f-a3dd-1c85eb2679d7&DisplayLang=en Read More...
Posted Monday, October 01, 2007 12:13 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

Updated Operations Manager MP's released to the Web - Windows Server 2000/2003 OS (6.0.5000.25) And DHCP (6.0.5000.33) MP

The following two Management packs have been updated: Windows 2000/2003 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3529d233-5e3e-4b51-8f66-5d6f27005ec3&DisplayLang=en updated from 6.0.5000.0 to 6.0.5000.25 Issues that have been fixed Read More...
Posted Monday, October 01, 2007 12:10 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments
 
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