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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:43 PM

Tired of your console throwing errors - or manually clearing your console cache?

You can tell the Ops console to clear the cache everytime you open it! Just change your shortcut - and add the /clearcache parameter: "C:\Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Microsoft.MOM.UI.Console.exe" /clearcache Keep in mind - this
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:21 PM

Got links?

Links you say? Main Opsmgr Microsoft site: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/opsmgr/default.mspx OpsMgr Documentation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498235.aspx OpsMgr Online Help: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310604.aspx
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Friday, December 14, 2007 8:24 PM

How do I collect data from a multi-instance object – like a SQL DB instance?

How do I collect data from a multi-instance object – like a SQL DB instance? This was a common question in the RTM version of the product. If I wrote a rule to collect performance data against a SQL DB engine – I needed to specify the “instance” name.
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Friday, December 14, 2007 4:12 PM

Moving the Data Warehouse and ACS databases in OpsMgr 2007

Moving the Data Warehouse and ACS databases in OpsMgr 2007 Instructions for how to move the data warehouse database, and ACS database – have been published. The Operations Manager 2007 Backup and Recovery Guide has been updated as of December 2007, to
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:22 PM

How grooming and auto-resolution work in the OpsMgr 2007 Operational database

How Grooming and Auto-Resolution works in the OpsMgr 2007 Operations DB Warning – don’t read this if you are bored easily. In a simplified view to groom alerts….. Grooming of the ops DB is called once per day at 12:00am…. by the rule: “ Partitioning and
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:52 PM

System Center Operations Manager SDK service failed to register an SPN

System Center Operations Manager SDK service failed to register an SPN Have you seen this event in your RMS OpsMgr event logs? Event Type: Warning Event Source: OpsMgr SDK Service Event Category: None Event ID: 26371 Date: 12/13/2007 Time: 2:58:24 PM
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:35 PM

Dont forget to update your management packs to SP1 !

Dont forget to update your management packs to SP1 ! One step it seems people often overlooks when upgrading to OpsMgr 2007 RC1 SP1 - is to update their management packs. The management packs that ship with the product are RTM version (6.0.5000.0) Often,
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:36 PM

Agent discovery and push troubleshooting in OpsMgr 2007

OpsMgr 2007 Agent troubleshooting: There is a GREAT graphical display of the Agent discovery and push process, taken from: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2007/12/10/how-does-computer-discovery-work-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx   Agent Prerequisites:
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:05 PM

Antivirus Exclusions for MOM and OpsMgr

Antivirus Exclusions in MOM 2005 and OpsMgr 2007: Processes: Excluding by process executable is very dangerous, in that it limits the control of scanning potentially dangerous files handled by the process, because it excludes any and all files involved.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:40 PM

Failed to verify Language Pack ???

Came across an interesting problem.... perhaps you have seen this? This is on RTM, and the RC1-SP1 build of OpsMgr: 1. Create a new empty management pack. 2. Create two alert generating event rules (Windows Event Log). 3. Add a script response to both
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:35 PM

Adding custom information to alert description (s) and notifications

This is just a dump of some alert description variables I pulled from several other bloggers: Custom Properties for Alert Description and Notification: Alert Description Variables:   For event Rules: EventDisplayNumber (Event ID):            
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