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Friday, October 09, 2009 7:17 AM

Dude. Got R2? Then go get this update!

Seriously. Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack version 6.1.7533.0 from the MP CATALOG .   This is basically a set of the core MP’s in OpsMgr R2.  You should expect to see these get updated on a fairly regular basis now.  These are
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:23 PM

Fixing troubled agents

Sometimes agents either will not “talk” to the management server upon initial installation, and sometimes an agent can get unhealthy long after working fine.  Agent health is an ongoing task of any OpsMgr Admin’s life. This post in NOT an “end to
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Monday, July 20, 2009 4:14 PM

Do you randomly see a MonitoringHost.exe process consuming lots of CPU?

Randomly, you might see a single MonitoringHost.exe process on an agent, consuming 100% CPU. (Or 50%, or 25% depending on how many cores you have).  This process will stay at this level, and will not recover.  If you restart the OpsMgr HealthService,
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Monday, June 29, 2009 8:45 PM

Error alerts from the DNS MP – script failures, WMI Probe failed?

Updated 9/28/09 I have seen this at several customer sites, and even in my own lab. You might find the following alerts (below) stemming from the DNS MP. To start, I would recommend the resolutions in my previous post: Getting lots of Script Failed To
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Attachment(s): Custom.DNS.Addendum.MP.zip
Friday, March 27, 2009 1:09 AM

New Dell Hardware MP released, 3.1.1 A00

Dell has updated their hardware management pack.  The old version was 3.1.0.118.  The new version is 3.1.1.3.  I blogged about the old MP HERE   So – first thing – I did the unthinkable .  I read the release notes .  Here
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:20 AM

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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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:45 PM

New OpsMgr hotfix – 958253 – Fixes patchlist table view for agent hotfixes

Hey guys – a new hotfix is published, and I recommend this for all SP1 environments.  This cleans up the Patchlist table in the database, making it more readable, and allowing more room because of the 255 character limit. You can now more easily
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:19 PM

Which hotfixes should I apply?

This is updated as of 11-3-2009    In general - you should evaluate all hotfixes available, and only apply those applicable to your environment.  However, some of these below I have seen impact almost every environment, and should be heavily
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:53 PM

Installing the Web Console on a 2008 Management Server - using Windows Authentication

Below is a step by step on taking a Windows 2008 Management Server, and adding the Web Console...  with the requirement of using Windows authentication.  The easiest method is to use Forms Based auth for Web Console servers.... but using Windows
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Friday, September 12, 2008 10:01 PM

What hotfixes should I apply ?

This topic has moved here: http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2009/01/27/which-hotfixes-should-i-apply.aspx
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:58 AM

How do I know if I have all the required hotfixes on Windows Server 2008 to be supported for a OpsMgr agent?

Given the recent support of Server 2008 with an OpsMgr 2007 agent.... (see Announcing OpsMgr support for Windows Server 2008 )  We need a good way to determine if all of our Server 2008 machines have the required hot-fixes.   We can do this
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Monday, July 28, 2008 2:40 PM

Announcing OpsMgr support for Windows Server 2008

It's here! First - read the overall KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953141 You will need to download several Windows Server 2008 hotfixes, and then the OpsMgr hotfixes: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954049 The new supported configurations
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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
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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