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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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The Cluster Service will automatically restart itself

Something I ran across with a customer. There aren’t many situations where service recoveries run automatically in Microsoft MP’s, but this is one case where they do.  The cluster service running is critical to a healthy cluster.  In the current
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Applying an OpsMgr hotfix to a RMS Cluster node? Some things to be aware of.

  When you apply a SCOM hotfix to a RMS cluster, you need to be aware of some issues, and some workarounds.  This is something I have seen several times in the field…   On any server/agent, the Hotfix installer will stop any discovered
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Setting up a 2 node Server 2008 failover cluster under HyperV

For lab testing, we would often set up Microsoft Server 2003 2-node clusters, under virtual server 2005, in order to test OpsMgr configurations, such as clustered RMS, clustered databases, or just testing management packs on clustered applications like
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DBcreatewizard or just run good old SetupOM.exe - which should I use to install the Database component of OpsMgr?

There has always been a bit of confusion on when to run the DBCreateWizard.exe tool, or when to just use SetupOM.exe to create the Operational DB or Data Warehouse DB. Historically.... in MOM 2005, we used the DBcreate Wizard in order to create the Onepoint
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