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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:22 PM

Active Directory Integration - How it works

Steve Rachui wrote a great post on this - which goes a little deeper than some of the other documents and blogs presently out there: http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2008/03/20/opsmgr-ad-integration-how-it-works.aspx I want to add one comment: Q:
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35 AM

Using a recovery in OpsMgr - Basic

This is a simple overview of using a recovery for a custom Monitor in OpsMgr Lets say we create a simple service monitor in OpsMgr... for this example - I will use the Print Spooler service: Create a new monitor, unit monitor, and choose windows services
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Friday, March 21, 2008 10:15 PM

SCCM management pack updated - now supports named instances of SQL

The System Center Configuration Manager MP has been updated. This update now support named instances of SQL, among other changes and updates. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/catalog.aspx The following changes and corrections have been
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Friday, March 21, 2008 10:09 PM

Exchange 2007 Management Pack - the good, the bad, and the ugly

UPDATE 6-23-08 The updated MP has been released, along with three hotfixes that addresses everything in this blog post.  Please install the hotfixes (listed below) and download the latest version of the Exchange 2007 MP.     The current
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:23 AM

System Center Operations Manager 2007 UNLEASHED

Got my copy of this book today: http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/ http://www.amazon.com/System-Center-Operations-Manager-Unleashed/dp/0672329557   Over 1200 pages!  1300 with appendices!  WOW!  Guess I know what I will be doing for the
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:20 AM

Self Tuning Thresholds - love and hate

****** The references in this post to the Exchange Management Pack have been changed... many of these issues below have been addressed in the updated MP: http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/08/22/updated-exchange-2003-mp-released-version-6-0-6387-0.aspx
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Monday, March 10, 2008 5:32 PM

"Performance Module could not find a performance counter" alerts after applying SP1

You might see a lot of these alerts after applying SP1 to OpsMgr 2007: These can come from pretty much any management pack.  I am getting a ton from the print server MP.... among others. Generally.... this is caused by OpsMgr trying to collect/measure
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Friday, March 07, 2008 5:37 AM

ACS Internals - Part 1

I am going to use this post ramble about a couple of the internals of ACS. Database: The ACS DB is primarily made up of daily partition tables.... we create a new one every day during the nightly maintenance, which defaults to 1AM. We create a new partition,
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