MOM 2005 SP1 download

danielvs — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:49:00 GMT

Download MOM 2005 SP1 to get enhancements, such as broader OS and database support and support for x64 platforms.

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) offers the latest security enhancements and features, including:

Broader OS and database support, including Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SQL 2000 SP4, which enables you to leverage the latest Windows Server System software.
Support for x64 platforms which allows MOM 2005 to run on and monitor the latest high performance hardware.
License usage alerting which enables you to receive alerts when product usage exceeds the configured threshold of licensed OMLs.
Many customer-requested enhancements to better support enterprise scenarios:
- Support for disjoint namespaces with mutual authentication
- Support for NETBIOS names containing dot
- Improved robustness of heart beating and Microsoft Connector Framework

A friend of mine will be very happy because he was in real need of this SP. Check te post of Stefan Stranger, he outlined all the fixes and issues solved with the MOM 2005 SP1

Greetings, Daniel

MOM ExPA MP should be improved?

danielvs — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:55:00 GMT

Ok, here some criticism about the MOM ExBPA MP.

I’m sure you all agree with me that MOM 2005 rocks!

If you administer Exchange Servers you should definitely use the Exchange Best Practise Analyzer tool (ExBPA). A month ago version 2.1 was released on the web.

With the ExBPA you do not monitor your servers but you do get the following functionality:

Identification of Exchange server configuration issues which could result in poor performance, scalability and unplanned downtime
Automated analysis and root cause identification
Support for third-party software and hardware
Self-updating database and help content
Links to over 500 articles on the Web
Works with Exchange Server 2003, Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 5.5 (in mixed mode topologies)

Therefore every Exchange server should have ExBPA installed (I mean, it’s free and you get lots of valuable info with it), the ExBPA rocks!

Check these sites for the ExPA tool and the ExBPA download, There is some good techy info on this blog from the ExBPA team and off course you want the link to download the MOM ExBPA MP.

If you monitor your Exchange servers with MOM you should also deploy the ExBPA MP. With this MP you can deploy the ExBPA tool on all your Exchange servers. Ok, that’s cool. Off course you get al your ExBPA alerts in MOM so what my criticism?

Well, MOM has a neat Knowledge Base; the ExBPA has also a nice Knowledge Base but those are NOT integrated through the MOM ExBPA MP! Instead of importing all the knowledge from the ExBPA into the MOM MP they only created a rule to forward all ExBPA alerts from the event viewer to MOM. I also want to see all the ExBPA knowledge in MOM if I receive an alert. Now I still have to open the ExBPA and check for the solution. L

Let me know what you think. Are you also in love with by MOM? Do you think the ExBPA tool is solid gold? Do you also use the ExBPA MP? Do you want it improved or am I too demanding?

Greetings, Daniel.

danielvs : MOM

MOM 2005 SP1 download

MOM ExPA MP should be improved?