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Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:25 AM

R2 Beta 1 releases on connect!!!

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/dd239186.aspx   Subscribe to the Connect program at https://connect.microsoft.com/SelfNomination.aspx?ProgramID=2249&pageType=1&SiteID=446   There are MANY new features - too many to list here. 
Posted by kevinhol | 2 Comments
Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:23 PM

Recording a web application browser session driving you crazy?

    Sometimes - getting this to work is frustrating.  The problems generally are caused by the security hardening of the OS hosting the console... not an issue with OpsMgr.  Here are some tips. This is seen especially on hardened versions
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:41 PM

Cleaning up the Default MP

The Default management pack that ships with OpsMgr 2007 is used to store very specific information for the management group.  It is a widely known best practice to NOT write any custom rules, monitors, groups, views, or overrides to this MP. 
Posted by kevinhol | 3 Comments
Friday, November 07, 2008 10:14 PM

A cool way to use a web page view in the console - run a report!

Here is a unique way to use web page views in the OpsMgr console. You can create a web page view in the Ops Console for pretty much any HTML - whether local to your hard drive - or a real web page. When you run an SRS based report, you can drop this link
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:24 PM

Boosting OpsMgr performance - by reducing the OpsDB data retention

Here is a little tip I often advise my customers on..... The default data retention in OpsMgr is 7 days for most data types:     These are default settings which work well for a large cross section of different agent counts.  In MOM 2005
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