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April 2009 - Posts

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:29 PM

Quick tip – using regular expressions in a dynamic group

Here is a quick tip on using a regular expression when creating a group.   OpsMgr dynamic inclusion rules are case sensitive. If I have a group that I want to contain all computers that START with “OM”…. I can use the following expression:  
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Friday, April 17, 2009 7:58 PM

How to find a specific rule/monitor/discovery in the console – when all you have a more cryptic ID in an alert

Sometimes – we will get a Script Error alert, or WMI failure Alert, or some generic alert, telling us that some OTHER workflow had a problem.  These alerts are NOT the root cause… the root cause is the workflow that gets referenced in the alert. 
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Friday, April 10, 2009 9:55 PM

R2 – Improved override screens

Here are some changes in R2 that make Overrides a bit more intuitive, and help a LOT in understanding what has been done:   First up:  We used to have a lot of names for “Class”.  We used “Target”, “Instance Type”, “Object Type” and “Type”
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:46 PM

R2 – Improved Agent Proxy Alerts

Here is a nice add in R2:  When we give you the old “agent proxy alert”, we now tell you the name of the Agent that needs agent proxy enabled, and resolve the name of the object type that it was bringing in:   Nice improvement.  I enable
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 4:04 PM

Getting SQL Admin Studio to connect to your SQL Cluster

I had hell yesterday figuring out what was wrong with this. I built a new SQL 2005 cluster, on Server 2003x64, to install my SCOM R2 release candidate environment into.  I used iSCSI for my cluster, and my nodes are VM guests under Hyper-V, the same
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:22 PM

Running reports – how can I run historical reports on agents that have been decommissioned?

  When we delete an agent from monitoring, we do NOT delete the agent data from the Data Warehouse – by design of course.   However – when running a report, the deleted agent was not showing up.  For instance – I am running the Windows
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:26 PM

SQL Server MP update – 6.0.6569.0

The SQL 2000, 2005, and 2008 MP’s have been updated.  If you arent running the latest version, you should give serious consideration to getting this tested in your lab environments, and then moved into production.   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/cc539535.aspx
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