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AD Replication monitoring – getting lots of slow replication errors?

I recently hit this with a customer – and feel it needs a bit more exposure.   The guide that ships with the current ADMP version 6.0.6452.0 leaves out a LOT of information on how to properly set this up…. specifically – how to make any overrides
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DNS MP – Noisy resolution time alerts, and how to deal with them

This is a problem in the 6.0.6480.0 version of the DNS MP. You will likely see a lot of DNS Resolution Time alerts popping into your console – then disappearing. This is because these alerts are generated by a monitor, which is frequently changing state. 

DNS MP External Resolution Monitor always in a critical state?

This is a problem in the 6.0.6480.0 version of the DNS MP. This MP includes a monitor to inspect the DNS server’s ability to resolve external domains. The problem is – that the moniotr defaults to inspecting “www.microsoft.com” when it should use a base

Getting and keeping the SCOM agent on a Domain Controller – how do YOU do it?

I’d like to hear some community feedback on this….   In OpsMgr – deploying a SCOM agent to a DC often presents companies with a bit of a challenge.  The reason is – in order to install software to a DC and manage it – we need rights on the DC
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Helper Objects are not copied to gateways

Something I noticed today..... when you deploy a gateway server - the helper object oomads.msi was not copied to the local \ AgementManagement directory for agent push. This means, that if you have a DC in the untrusted forest, managed by a gateway, that
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Active Directory Integration - How it works

Steve Rachui wrote a great post on this - which goes a little deeper than some of the other documents and blogs presently out there: http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2008/03/20/opsmgr-ad-integration-how-it-works.aspx I want to add one comment: Q:
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Creating a Group based on OU (Organizational Unit) in Active Directory

  Here is a really cool feature of Opsmgr:  the ability to create groups easily based on any discovered attribute of an object.   OU is something that is part of the Windows Computer object discovery.  If you examine a state view –

System Center Operations Manager SDK service failed to register an SPN

System Center Operations Manager SDK service failed to register an SPN Have you seen this event in your RMS OpsMgr event logs? Event Type: Warning Event Source: OpsMgr SDK Service Event Category: None Event ID: 26371 Date: 12/13/2007 Time: 2:58:24 PM
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