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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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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:54 PM

Alert Notification Subscription Variables, and linking that to the console, database, and SDK

Attached you will find a spreadsheet, with all the possible alert notification subscription variables that I am aware of. In this spreadsheet, I link these to the same values in the Alert table of the DB, the alert view of the DB, the Console alert view,
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Attachment(s): Alert Properties Notification Subscription Variable Master Table_v1.xlsx
Friday, May 22, 2009 11:37 PM

New web based forums for OpsMgr – no more NNTP newsgroups

  Getting help from the community for OpsMgr just got easier. We released the new interface to OpsMgr forums – on the web.  No more NNTP newsgroups to parse, with a hard to use web interface.   http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:02 PM

What’s the diff? Or – how to see exactly what is new with an updated MP

Back in MOM 2005…. we had some really cool reskit tools to look at differences in Management Packs.  In the MOM 2005 reskit, there was a tool called MP2XML.exe which would take an AKM MP, and convert it to XML.  Then, you could run another reskit
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Monday, October 27, 2008 5:59 PM

How many consoles are connected to my RMS?

This discussion comes up quite a bit. There are a couple ways to track this data....  even to alert us if it breaches a threshold.   One way to look at the number of connected consoles, is to examine the number of users that are connected to
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:52 PM

MPViewer 1.7 released

MPViewer 1.7 - Now works with latest E12 MP Get it.
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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: ▪get-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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Saturday, February 23, 2008 1:01 AM

OpsMgr SP1 is HERE!

The final Service Pack 1 has been released!    Version 6.0.6278.0 Read more about it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/cc280350.aspx The download:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ede38d83-32d1-46fb-8b6d-78fa1dcb3e85&DisplayLang=en
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:43 PM

Tired of your console throwing errors - or manually clearing your console cache?

You can tell the Ops console to clear the cache everytime you open it! Just change your shortcut - and add the /clearcache parameter: "C:\Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Microsoft.MOM.UI.Console.exe" /clearcache Keep in mind - this
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