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Friday, April 25, 2008 4:58 PM

Useful lists - A must read

Ian Blyth has put together a collection of OpsMgr resources from different whitepapers, blog posts, and links - to be a great central collection point for some really good info. It * will * be worth your time to bookmark his link: http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/useful-lists
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:33 PM

Using Event Description as criteria for a rule

When we write rules and monitors to look at events in the event log.... typically the most common criteria are Event ID and Source.  We also have a list of other common event properties to choose from: However, this list doesn't always work. 
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Monday, April 21, 2008 11:12 PM

Event ID 2115 A Bind Data Source in Management Group

I see this event a lot in customer environments.  I am not an expert on troubleshooting this here... but saw this post in the MS newsgroups and felt it was worth capturing.... My experience has been that it is MUCH more common to see these when there
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Monday, April 21, 2008 10:45 PM

Why do my reports show no data?

Often times.... I hear about reports not showing any data. Especially ad-hoc performance reports. When we run a report – we have to run the report against the same object type (class) that the data was collected from. The problem is – “how do you know
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:14 PM

OpsMgr security account rights mapping - what accounts need what privileges?

Do you ever wish you had a list of the rights needed to install OpsMgr on each server role ? Or what each service account needs for steady state? Or how about ongoing support... for your Admin group - to have enough rights in SQL to support OpsMgr? I
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Attachment(s): OpsMgr 2007 SP1 Security account Matrix v1.0.xls
Saturday, April 12, 2008 12:38 AM

What SQL maintenance should I perform on my OpsMgr databases?

This question comes up a lot.  The answer is really - not what maintenance you should be performing... but what maintenance you should be *excluding*.... or when.  Here is why: Most SQL DBA's will set up some pretty basic default maintenance
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