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I was recently e-mailed by a colleague regarding the maintenance mode PowerShell script that was originally released by Boris Yanushpolsky (found here ) that worked great for RTM/SP1, but was failing when executed on an OpsMgr 2007 R2 agent managed system. Read More...
As promised, I finally finished and submitted the Extended SQL Server 2005/2008 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 and it is now available for download on OpsManJam . This management pack augments the existing Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 management Read More...
It has been quite some time since I have posted anything of relevance on my blog. I have been focused on updating some of the management packs that I published a few months ago, such as: Extended Windows Server Active Directory Extended Windows Server Read More...
The latest Active Directory management pack deployment guide has a small section entitled "Enabling or Disabling Performance Data for Reports" and it was generating some good dialog internally between some colleagues and the product group. This section Read More...
I uncovered a situation with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services that I did not encounter before and it is worth mentioning because it follows the premise of - verify SQL Reporting Services first before installing Operations Manager 2007 Reporting. Background: Read More...
One of the new features of R2 that hasn't received any attention yet (at least to my knowledge) is how we changed the functionality of Run As Profiles. Today in Operations Manager 2007, you associate a RunAs Account for a particular RunAs Profile on a Read More...
Over the weekend I was able to make the time needed to wipe and load Windows 7 Beta, which I can say with much enthusiasm is stellar (really, I am not saying that because I work for Microsoft). Anywho, I installed the Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Operations Read More...
I forgot to mention a few weeks ago I had taken the ITIL v3 Foundation Certification exam and a couple of days later I received my results in the mail. I passed... That is all - end transmission. Read More...
Today I have updated the Deployment Guide for Operations Manager 2007 Reporting on Windows Server 2008. This was due to some confusion from those who downloaded the doc and were attempting to setup this configuration in their environment. I received a Read More...
I just completed the deployment guide for this custom management pack that Walter and I have been working on. It is now ready for you to download and evaluate. Description : This management pack provides performance views and dashboards to present key Read More...
Being Chris Fox is busy right now with authoring/updating docs for Operations Manager 2007 R2, I am going to post this guide on my blog until it is uploaded on the OpsManJam site. This document I authored, provides the following guidance: This document Read More...
This has been on my list of things to do - release the custom Operations Manager Performance Monitoring MP that Walter Chomak and myself co-developed. I am in the process of getting the deployment guide authored and hope to have it released shortly. This Read More...
Back in June I attended an internal class to review Microsoft Operations Framework v4 (formerly known as Project Hanna) and attended a beta exam thereafter, which I fortunately passed. Now this week, I am going to update my ITIL Foundation Certification Read More...
I just submitted to Chris Fox for review and posting on the OpsManJam site, the guide "System Center Operations Manager 2007 Configure SQL Server Log Shipping Guide for Operations Manager 2007 Operational Database" that I have been working on in my spare Read More...
While I realize that today my colleauge in arms Walter Chomak, has blogged about installing System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting on Windows Server 2008 , the attached guide provides greater detail and guidance on installing SQL Server 2005 Read More...
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