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February 2008 - Posts

OpsMgr Authoring Console (Release Candidate including SP1 Support) has released to the Web.

Take a look in the Authoring Management Packs section of the following page http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/default.aspx for 32-bit and 64-bit downloads of the release candidate. The Authoring Guide is also available for download from the same Read More...
Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 12:21 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

Documentation Update - Operations Guide

An updated Operations guide has been released to the web and is available for download via http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498235.aspx Here is the revision history for this update:     February 22, 2008 Added "Maintenance and Read More...
Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 8:23 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

KB944443 - List of issues that are fixed in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

Finally the edits for SP1 RTM have been made to  http://support.microsoft.com/?id=944443   SUMMARY This article lists the issues that are fixed in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). INTRODUCTION This article Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:13 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

OpsMgr MP Refresh - Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 Management Pack (Documentation Update only)

The SQL MP has been refreshed which is a documentation update only http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8c0f970e-c653-4c15-9e51-6a6cadfca363&DisplayLang=en The MP Guide now includes the changes made to the MP in the last update Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:42 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

New OpsMgr MPS (Converted): Antigen9,ADS,PCN,Commerce Server,Server Performance Advisor, Rights Management Service

The following new converted (Converted MOM 2005 MP's)  MP's have been released to the Web:   Antigen 9 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=72cda2c2-6dbd-4c70-bfcc-d2c8c6e459d3&DisplayLang=en Automated Deployment Services Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:39 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Report Authoring Guide is now available

The Report Authoring guide is now available via the following link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852ed79859&DisplayLang=en   Also applies to the original release, however one aspect Report Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:49 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Please read if upgrading SP1 RC (6246) to SP1 RTM (6278) - Agents pending upgrade may not appear in the Pending Management view - Updated Release Note.

    On Feb 22nd we shipped the Service Pack 1 of OpsMgr 2007. We made one last minute change to one of the upgrade steps in the upgrade guide which did not make it to the upgrade documentation that was shipped with the SP1 bits. If you are upgrading Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:08 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

Upgrading OpsMgr Evaluation Copies to SP1 RTM

I've seen several questions on this topic both internally and externally so it deserves more of an explanation than the upgrade guide possibly supplies. If you have installed the SP1 RC Evaluation version or SP1 Evaluation version and need to upgrade Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 5:34 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

More new OpsMgr07 KB articles

All these by the way are issued fixed in Service Pack 1 KB941017  (The "Columns to display," "Sort columns by," and "Group items by text" values in the Inventory View properties are not localized in System Center Operations Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:35 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

OpsMgr 2007 SP1 Documentation Releases (Authoring Guide/ Deployment Guide)

The Operations Manager Authoring Guide is now available http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OM2007_AuthGuide.doc . The Authoring Console RTM is not yet available. The Deployment Guide updated for SP1 is available Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:47 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

System Center Team blog on the Release of OpsMgr SP1 and additional SP1 Resources

Worth while keeping your feeds updated with info on  http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2008/02/23/system-center-operations-manager-2007-service-pack-1-sp1-now-available.aspx The TechCenter is already in the process of updates related Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 5:34 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Windows Server 2008 and System Center/Operations Manager and Windows Server 2008 Datasheets available

Monitoring you Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=75cea55b-204f-497e-b75f-ec57c4b27aa0&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and System Center - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4ce50d5f-72ff-4c25-bd2d-eb0191bf3b7f&DisplayLang=e Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 5:25 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 Debug Tracing

As Marius discussed ( http://blogs.msdn.com/mariussutara/archive/2008/01/21/operations-manager-2007-sp1-tracing.aspx ) SP1 introduces some changes in SP1 to debug level tracing sometimes required when working with Customer Support Services (CSS) on issues Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 5:21 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Training videos

Are available http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb986763.aspx Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 5:03 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 RTM HAS RELEASED!!

Woohoo! I have the pleasure of announcing that the SP1 RTM (US English) is now available (other languages follow schedules March through May)   The SP1 RTM Eval Web Package is available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3b6a44c-a90f-4e7d-b646-957f2a5fff5f&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 5:00 PM by CliveEastwood | 2 Comments

A note on Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 support for Windows Server 2008

Bottom line = SP1 does not yet provide support for any role running on Windows Server 2008. Read on . . .   The Supported Configurations Guide included with SP1 RTM (ProductDocumentation folder) states the following: Windows Server 2008 Operating Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 4:37 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 fixlist

This list will be an the update to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944443/en-us (List of issues that are fixed in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate). This article will be updated shortly to reflect the KB articles Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 4:14 PM by CliveEastwood | 1 Comments

Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 RTM - Upgrade Guide

I thought it may be a good idea to drop a copy of the Opsmgr SP1 Upgrade guide here for those planning deployments. Lots of information to take in and a few caveats besides.  This can be found on the SP1 RTM CD image in the ProductDocumentation folder. Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 3:03 PM by CliveEastwood | 4 Comments

New KB article - KB941977 - You receive error messages when you try to edit the Web application monitoring settings in System Center Operations Manager 2007

KB941977 - You receive error messages when you try to edit the Web application monitoring settings in System Center Operations Manager 2007 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941977 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 2:46 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

New Knowledge Base articles for Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Essentials 2007

Finally we have some content released I've been waiting for (better late than never). The KB article 944443 (List of issues that are fixed in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate) will be updated shortly (crossing my Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 12:32 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

New KB:947687 - Event IDs 21245 and 21300 are generated after you install Microsoft Operations Manager Web Sites and Services Management Pack for MOM 2005

Newly published MOM 2005 KB article - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947687 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 12:00 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

New KB:947678 - How to extract an SQL statement from a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 report

Newly published MOM 2005 KB article - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947678 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 11:58 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

New KB:947679 - Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 reports run slowly or never finish

Newly published MOM 2005 KB - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947679 Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 11:57 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Management Pack For OpsMgr07 (6.0.5000.0)

The WSUS 3.0 MP for OpsMgr07 has been released to the Web and is available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5913af83-965a-4db1-b657-25bbccddcf7d&DisplayLang=en Read More...
Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 11:42 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Data Protection Manager 2006 MP (DPM) 6.0.5000.0 for OpsMgr07

The converted DPM MP for OpsMgr07 is now available http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a3e0a46d-aad9-4ebf-9ce8-c5242d0e596c&DisplayLang=en As this is a converted MP it has a dependency upon the Backward Compatibility Management Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:34 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Server role installation issues (Sdk Service has not yet initialized),Or Please call ManagementGroup.Reconnect() to reestablish the connection, issues

I've come across a number of cases in the past where Opsmgr/SCE server role installation may fail, or even post installation processes such as report deployment can fail with no indication as to why. Some symptoms you may see which may indicate the need Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:55 AM by CliveEastwood | 2 Comments

System Center Capacity Planner 2007 RTM's (Download available - OpsMgr07 Capacity Model not yet available)

System Center Capacity Planner 2007 has RTM'ed and is available for download via the following link http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sccp/default.mspx   Currently SCCP supports the following capacity model : Microsoft Exchange Server 2007   Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 1:52 PM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments

Windows Server 2008 RTM's!

See http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/02/04/windows-server-2008-rtm.aspx   Now the OpsMgr 2007 support for Server 2008 clock starts ticking. Support requirements will typically be published within 90 days of RTM. At the moment Operations Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 9:25 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM's !

Read all about the release here http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx I've been running this for around a week now and I'm soooo happy in the performance gains I'm seeing:) Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 9:11 AM by CliveEastwood | 0 Comments
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