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Friday, June 27, 2008 11:11 PM

A report to show all agents missing a specific hotfix

This is a continuation of my previous post on determining which agents are missing a hot-fix: How do I know which hotfixes have been applied to which agents- I wrote up a report that allows you to paste in a KB article number into the report as a parameter,
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Attachment(s): Agents_Missing_Hotfix_Report.rdl
Friday, June 27, 2008 10:39 PM

Which servers are DOWN in my company, and which just have a heartbeat failure, RIGHT NOW?

          In OpsMgr 2007, when a agent experiences a heartbeat failure, several things happen.  There are diagnostics, and possibly recoveries that are run.  Alerts, and possibly notifications go out. But what happens
Posted by kevinhol | 11 Comments
Attachment(s): Servers_Down_Report.rdl
Friday, June 27, 2008 10:04 PM

Agent Proxy alerts - finding the right machine to enable agent proxy on using a custom report

Certain types of agents need the agent proxy setting enabled.  These are documented in various guides... such as Exchange Active Directory, Cluster nodes, etc... However, sometimes, we still get alerts that Agent Proxy needs to be enabled for a HealthService. 
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Friday, June 27, 2008 9:39 PM

Creating a new data source for reporting against the Operational Database

I am going to be publishing several reports over the next few months, that query the Operational Database instead of the Data warehouse.  We will use these reports for getting all sorts of administrative information... which will allow us to get
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Friday, June 27, 2008 12:16 AM

OpsMgr and Server 2008 support - Delayed a bit

Looks like we are waiting on a hot-fix for Server 2008 from the Windows team.   Read the full story: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/05/07/opsmgr-2007-with-sp1-support-for-windows-server-2008-update.aspx
Posted by kevinhol | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:37 PM

AD Role Holders Report - how to get data

The "AD Role Holders" report has some incorrect description information on how to run the report. If you follow the instructions... adding the "Active Directory Domain Controller Computer Role" you will get no data returned. This will be fixed in an upcoming
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:29 PM

Using OpsMgr Notifications in the real world - Part 1

Using notifications such as email, has proven to be somewhat difficult in OpsMgr .  I get questions from each and every customer I work with on this topic.... as most people never get these to work as they want, or expect, without fully understanding
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:01 PM

When searching for objects to include in reports - the results are limited to 500 objects

Keep this in mind when searching for an object when creating a report.  If you don't give very specific search criteria... or if you just select "Add Object" then select "Search" with no criteria.... the result set is limited
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:13 PM

A little tidbit on Hot-fixes for OpsMgr

When you apply a hot-fix to a RMS, or Management Server, or Gateway server... a couple things will happen.  First... it will update the server itself with whatever the hot-fix is supposed to fix... registry, DLL's, database updates, etc.  Next,
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:42 PM

How do I know which hotfixes have been applied to which agents?

***UPDATE*** A new hotfix has been released, which is a simple updated management pack.... which fixes the Patchlist table to include all hotfixes, and cleans up the formatting. I recommend you get it and install it on your SP1 environments. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958253
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Monday, June 23, 2008 6:11 PM

Exchange 2007 Management pack updated 6-22-2008 version 6.0.6278.12

The updated MP is released! Now supports Exchange 2007 SP1 and a bunch of other fixes. Get it from the catalog: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/opsmgr07.aspx     There are three hotfixes you should apply as a pre-requisite....
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Monday, June 16, 2008 10:42 AM

A simple command to backup all Management Packs

Launch the System Center Operations Manager \ Command Shell: â–ªget-managementpack | export-managementpack -path c:\backup   Also, for some advanced automation.... check out: http://www.systemcenterforum.org/automate-mp-export-for-disaster-recovery/
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