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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:28 PM

Writing monitors to target Logical or Physical Disks

This is something a LOT of people make mistakes on – so I wanted to write a post on the correct way to do this properly, using a very common target as an example. When we write a monitor for something like “Processor\% Processor Time\_Total” and target
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:01 PM

29106 event on RMS – Index was out of range. Wait. What?

Was working with a customer on this one – figured it might help others. Saw a lot of these VERY SPECIFIC 29106 events on the RMS, specifically with the text:  System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less
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Monday, November 09, 2009 11:34 PM

How to force the Web Console to open a specific view, instead of the default Monitoring Overview

  When you open the Web Console – the default view will open to a “Monitoring Overview” pane.  This view, in very large environments, can take considerable time to finish loading, before you can select any other views.  Sometimes, loading
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Monday, November 09, 2009 7:06 PM

OpsMgr 2007 SP1 cumulative rollup hotfix has shipped!

If you cannot or will not upgrade to OpsMgr 2007 R2 anytime soon – then this hotfix is for you! Available at:   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971541 This updates OpsMgr 2007 SP1 to 6.0.6278.100.  This is a rollup covering many new issues,
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Monday, November 09, 2009 1:34 PM

Native Exchange 2007 MP 6.0.6741.0 ships for OpsMgr 2007 SP1 users

If for some reason you cannot or will not upgrade to OpsMgr 2007 R2, then this update is for you! This Native MP replaces the old “ converted ” Exchange 2007 MP.  If you are running the old conversion MP then I STRONGLY suggest making the effort
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 6:00 AM

Making groups of logical disks – an example from simple to advanced

I have been seeing this question come up a lot lately – as customers try and create groups of their disks – in order to create overrides for “certain” disks.  So – I am creating this post to give some real world examples.   Well – I will start
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:53 PM

Updated Active Directory ADMP Management Pack released – Version 6.0.7065.0

This is now available on the catalog. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/cc539535.aspx   Changes in this update: Support for monitoring Windows Server® 2008 R2 server operating systems as well as Windows® 7 client operating systems Support
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:35 AM

Why do my group memberships for Windows Computers have machines that don't belong there?

Here is a little tip if you find that your Windows Computer Groups (and state views scoped by groups) contain computers that should not be there.   Have you noticed that you have state views or Windows Computer Groups that contain servers that you
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:00 AM

Holy Management Packs Batman – we are surrounded!

  Wow – what a plethora of new MP’s to look at. Just in the past week – we have gotten a bunch of updated MP.  I wont take any time to go into details on the changes in this post – but be aware!  You probably need to get these in your evaluation
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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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Monday, October 05, 2009 6:29 AM

What is config churn?

There have been a couple good articles briefly covering this topic…. you might have read them.  I will reference some below.  Config churn is basically, when your RMS is in an almost never-ending loop of generating config.  This can be
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Friday, October 02, 2009 9:31 PM

Keep your management pack names SHORT in SP1!

I have seen this twice now… so I will blog about it.  It seems to be rare in the wild, but it will completely cripple a management group when this occurs.  So beware SP1 users!   This article does not apply to R2.  This is only an
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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, September 28, 2009 5:09 PM

New Base OS MP 6.0.6667.0 adds file fragmentation monitor to all Logical Disks

I recently blogged about the new Base OS MP that was recently released:  HERE   One of the things you will notice RIGHT off the bat… is that a huge percentage of your logical disks will go into a warning state, if you don't already have some
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:37 PM

New KMS MP released version 6.0.7234.0 and some things you should know

A new KMS (Key Management Services) MP is released.  I don't expect this is a widely used MP out there…. but there are some things you should know if you ever imported the previous versions. First – the new MP is available on the catalog:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/cc539535.aspx
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