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

CliveEastwood — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:52:28 GMT

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

Capacity models soon to be available for download are :

System Center Operations Manager 2007

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Windows Server 2008 RTM's!

CliveEastwood — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:25:28 GMT

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 Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 will be a requirement for support of Windows Server 2008.

If any requirements post Opsmgr07 SP1 (now very close to RTM itself) arise for Windows Server 2008 I'll post them here.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM's !

CliveEastwood — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:11:07 GMT

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:)

The Microsoft System Center blog is up and running

CliveEastwood — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:42:33 GMT

Make sure you subscribe to http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/ for overall coverage of what's happening the System Center world

Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 news

CliveEastwood — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:20:18 GMT

Anders has posted a communication on the new release schedule for Service Pack 1, including a public Release Candidate (RC) planned for early November and final RTM planned for mid-February 08.

Please see News about Service Pack 1 which explains more from a Microsoft communication around the release.

Microsoft acquires Engyro Corporation

CliveEastwood — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:27:34 GMT

Today Microsoft announced the acquisition of Engyro corporation http://www.engyro.com , the company behind many of the product connectors and management packs for MOM 2005 and Operations Manager 2007.

See http://www.momconnectors.com/media/press-releases/2007/060107.php for details of the acquisition and Frequently Asked Questions http://www.momconnectors.com/media/press-releases/2007/060107.php

Exciting times ahead !

Operations Manager 2007 SDK Documentation Released to MSDN

CliveEastwood — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:35:21 GMT

The Operations Manager 2007 SDK documentation is now available on MSDN online : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb437575.aspx

System Center Operations Manager 2007 RTM - 180 Evaluation Version released to the Web

CliveEastwood — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:05:00 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5d9d0b53-2320-4504-b079-72292b1a81d0&DisplayLang=en

SC Operations Manager 2007 RTM'ed Thursday 22nd March. The 180 day evaluation version is available via the above link.

Enjoy

Clive

System Center Operations Manager 2007 - The final countdown

CliveEastwood — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:57:00 GMT

Well that time is nearly here. Everything is ready for go.

After some considerable hard work by the architects, PM's, developers, testers and supporting personnel all is in place for RTM.

Keep you eyes on http://www.microsoft.com/opsmgr as content becomes available.

Knowledge base content will be releasing shortly.

Unfortunately I can't attend MMS 2007 but it's going to be an event to behold!

Availability Management Pack release 05.0.5000.001 available for MOM 2005 SP1

CliveEastwood — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:49:00 GMT

An update to the Availability Management Pack has been released (05.0.5000.0001).

This corrects several issues, one which could affect new installations of the Availability Management pack where the ReliabilityAnalysisReporting task could return status 0x80040e37 (E_NOTABLE) during execution due to the fact that a required view (SC_Class_Availability_View) does not exist in the Datawarehouse. The Availability Reporting.akm file has been modified and will need to be re-imported. Required computer groups will need to be re-associated with the rule group as discussed in the MP Guide. Once the AKM is imported and associated to computer groups it may take several days before the SystemCenterDTSPackageTask creates the required SC_Class_Availability_View and the ReliabilityAnalysisReporting task executes successfully.

The Availability Reporting database components (MOM_MRAS.MSI) have also been updated to include an improvement in data processing which will allows faster generation of first time reports.

Path to the download http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a61d369-b785-4550-bde8-84e734ec5e40&DisplayLang=en

Check version is 05.0.5000.0001 before downloading.

A KB article discussing this release will be available shortly.

Availability Management Pack issues with 05.0.5000.0000 Aug 31 release

CliveEastwood — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:28:00 GMT

Several issues have been discovered with the Availability Management Pack release 05.0.5000.0000. As a result we have taken steps to address these in a maintenance release which will be available on our download site as soon as it can be arranged. This release will be 05.0.5000.0001.

Issues that will be addressed in this release:

Fresh installs on the MP can result in the error 0x80040e37 (E_NOTABLE) returned by the ReliabilityAnalysisReporting Windows task (MRASLoader.exe). An updated Availability Reporting.akm is provided as a solution. This management pack will need to be imported with the Replace option and the Computer Groups associated again with the top level rule group as discussed in the Availability Reporting MP Guide.
Report generation may be delayed longer than necessary. As a solution, an updated MOM_MRAS.MSI is provided. The previous version of the MSI will need to be uninstalled (this will not remove data from the SystemCenterReporting database) and this updated version installed.

As a measure to provide relief while the re-release is in progress the updated version of the Availability Reporting.akm file is provided here. Once this management pack is imported associate the required Computer Groups with the Availability Reporting top level rule group as discussed in the MP guide. It will be necessary to wait until the Availability Service Discovery script within the MP executes (daily at 00:23) and then the next execution of the SystemCenterDTSPackageTask. Once this has taken place subsequent execution of the ReliabilityAnalysisReporting task should execute normally.

System Center Essentials Beta 2 released to the Microsoft Connect Web Site

CliveEastwood — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:18:00 GMT

System Center Essentials Beta 2 is now available via http://connect.microsoft.com (you will need to have registered to obtain it).

Availability Management Pack 5.0.5000.0000 has released to the Web

CliveEastwood — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:18:00 GMT

The re-released Availability Management Pack has now released to the Web http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a61d369-b785-4550-bde8-84e734ec5e40&DisplayLang=en

Per my previous blog to http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2006/08/21/448348.aspx this has several requirements. Please read the release notes and updated MP Guide for details.

How do I determine the version of MOM Availability Reporting I'm running?

CliveEastwood — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:07:00 GMT

With the forthcoming August release of the Availability MP that will make it the third release. There may be another update later this year too which will support Windows 2000 domain controllers (more on this when I know more).

With that said, and with MOM installations moving between administrators, it can be hard to tell which version of the Availability MP is already installed when taking over administration of an exisiting implementation. So here's the low down:

A brief history lesson ;)

The Availability MP was first released in September 2005. This version had an AKM version 05.0.3000.0000. Performing the SQL query SELECT * FROM MRAS_MRASInstallVersion again the SystemCenterReporting database would return TableVersion 1.0 and ProcVersion 1.5.

The Availability MP was re-released November 2005. The AKM version is 05.0.4000.0000 and the TableVersion 1.0, ProcVersion 1.5. Hence the management pack akm was revisioned, the SQL Server components remained the same.

The forthcoming Availability MP (August 2006 release) has an AKM version 05.0.5000.0000. The TableVersion remains 1.0, but the ProcVersion has been rev'ed to 1.8. Hence the management pack akm was revisioned and the back-end stored procedures were revisioned.

Hopefully this should prevent any confusion over what you currently have installed :)

News on the forthcoming re-release of the Microsoft Availability Reporting Management Pack

CliveEastwood — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:57:00 GMT

Posted on the SMS and MOM Blog provided by PSS

http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2006/08/21/448348.aspx