Matt Goedtel on Operations Management

So I was working with Operations Manager 2007 in my lab environment here at home, and since I have a few Windows Vista clients I thought I would enable Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) on the Management Server. Well that process went fine and the Read More...

Today the product group has released a draft document providing guidance in the recovery of a failed clustered Root Management Server (RMS) for Operations Manager 2007. It can be downloaded from the Operations Manager Product Team Blog - http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2007/07/24/disaster-recovery-opsmgr-2007-root-management-server-on-a-cluster.aspx Read More...

One fine afternoon I was reviewing the Operations Manager 2007 Online Help on my Management Server to look into Custom Alert Fields. It inaccurately states: In the Global Management Group Settings - Alerts dialog box, click New . Click the Custom Alert Read More...

Last week I was suprised when I uncovered that the Active Directory Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 was missing several key Event/Alert rules related to the dependency on DNS. During the conversion process of the MOM 2005 ADMP to the OpsMgr Read More...

I figured I would write a quick post regarding the ACS component in Operations Manager 2007, as I sometimes see people wonder why the reports are not available after they install the ACS Database and Collector component. The setup of the ACS Collector Read More...

Sometimes working with Operations Manager Reporting and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services can be a bit frustrating or challenging because the error displayed are often ambiguous. Some common situations I have come across are the following (including Read More...