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Running the Web Console Server on a standalone server using Windows Authentication

One of the big issues we had in OpsMgr 2007 RTM was if you installed the Database and the Root Management Server(RMS) on a standalone server with the SDK and Config services running under a domain account users could not install the Web Console Server Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:34 AM by DeploymentMan | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): Setting Up Constraint Delegation.docx

Operations Manager Data Retention and Grooming Information

The attached Word 2007 file written by Daniel Savage contains information about data retention and grooming that many of you might find useful. Click the heading title to drill into the post and then a link to the attachment will appear. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:45 PM by banders | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): Operations Manager Data Retention & Grooming..docx

Answering some common deployment questions (Part 1)

What level of privileges are required to install the product? Someone recently asked a question regarding what level of privileges are required to install the product and later they asked me why the accounts had to be what they were. I thought I would Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:27 PM by DeploymentMan | 3 Comments

Monitoring Password Expirations

The question has recently come up, what about password expiration used for Run As Account (and action account) credentials? If you are using Local System, there is no password to expire. If you specified a domain account, we have you covered (for the Read More...
Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 12:23 AM by jdowning | 0 Comments

Looking for Connector Information?

We got a query through the blog email about how to get started writing connectors and I've heard of a few other requests for this type of information. For starters, take a look at this MSDN topic on creating connectors: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb437511.aspx Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:48 AM by Jonobie Ford | 0 Comments

Walter Chomak's "Everything OpsMgr 2007" blog

Walter Chomak is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft out of the Boston area and does some really great work with our OpsMgr customers. Check out his blog here: Everything OpsMgr 2007 http://wchomak.spaces.live.com/default.aspx Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 6:16 PM by justinincarnato | 1 Comments
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Versioning in OpsMgr

We got a question through the blog email about how to tell which version of Operations Manager was installed on a computer. This is easy to check, so I thought I'd throw up a quick tip about it. In the console, click Help -> About and take a look at Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:04 AM by Jonobie Ford | 1 Comments
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Support plans for OpsMgr 2007, SCE and MOM 2005 running on Windows Server 2008

A lot of good stuff is going on in Seattle these days, Seahawks have made it to the playoffs, we have actually been seeing some sunshine in month of January and Windows Server 2008 aka Longhorn is picking up a lot of good buzz at least that’s what I hear Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:19 PM by DeploymentMan | 10 Comments

Understanding how Active Directory integration feature works in OpsMgr 2007

Happy New Year!!! One of my colleagues had shared with me some detailed information on how Active Directory (AD) integration works (in particular how the service connection points (SCP) are created) and I thought it would be a good blog post for this Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:26 PM by DeploymentMan | 3 Comments
 
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