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Operations Manager 2007 Security Guide Updated April 2008

The Operations Manager 2007 Security Guide has been updated and can be found at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=64017 . New topics in this release: · Using a Firewall in Operations Manager 2007 · Setting up Communications Across a Domain – Workgroup Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:51 PM by jdowning | 0 Comments

Microsoft.Unix.Computer

Team blog for System Center Cross Platform and Interop, Microsoft’s manageability solution for non-Windows platforms and Management System interoperability. http://blogs.msdn.com/scxplat/ Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:13 PM by justinincarnato | 2 Comments
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Operations Manager writers at MMS 2008

There's a lot planned for the Microsoft Management Summit next week in Vegas! I'll be there, as will several other content managers and writers from the System Center team. The following sessions are good places to meet the team and influence upcoming Read More...
Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 10:50 AM by Jonobie Ford | 2 Comments
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Authoring console is now available

The System Center Management Pack Authoring Console 2007 has been released to the Web! If you'll be at the Microsoft Management Summit next week, stop by the the Authoring Session SO04 - Tools and Best Practices for Authoring Management Packs for Operations Read More...
Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 10:21 AM by Jonobie Ford | 4 Comments

Reading/Collecting Events created from script with the LogScriptEvent API

Overview A lot of scripts have need to create events which are external to the normal function of the script. This is a technique which is typically used for tracing, it is not recommended to release scripts which expose traces in this way as there is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:06 PM by christow | 0 Comments

Encapsulating Common Script Functions in an MP

Most MPs have one or more scripts which are used for a variety of things, discovery state monitoring, perf data creation, etc… In a lot of cases the majority of the script code is common to all the scripts in the MP, logging, connecting to a particular Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:37 PM by christow | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Script.Composite.Functions.xml

OpsMgr 2007 BizTalk 2006 MP version 6.0.6278.16 Released

The OpsMgr 2007 MP for BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2006 R2 has been released to the MP Catalog on 4/14/2008 (version 6.0.6278.16). This management pack is a complete re-write of the BizTalk Server management pack, which takes full advantage Read More...
Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 9:34 PM by corband | 0 Comments
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Using the Data Warehouse Part 2 – Event Data

Following on from the previous blog( now updated with Alert schema ) showing how to query the data warehouse for Alert data, this post will cover utilizing Event Data. Out of the box, we provide 3 main Event reports. Event Analysis Report Allows you to Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 11:02 PM by dsavage | 1 Comments
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OpsMgr 2007 Hardware Guidance (What hardware do I buy?)

OpsMgr 2007 Hardware Guidance (What hardware do I buy?) Many of you have been waiting for the System Center Capacity Planner tool to be released and that should be available very shortly. Until then I have put together an excel sheet with some basic hardware Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:54 PM by DeploymentMan | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): OpsMgr 2007 Hardware Recommendation.xlsx

EventLog Explorer

The Event Explorer tool can be useful for functional and exploratory testing and debugging. The main purpose of this tool is to reduce burden of manual retrieving and creating EventLog related information since all necessary data regarding installed event Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:20 AM by zbutor | 5 Comments
Attachment(s): EventLogExplorer.zip

OpsMgr 2007 SQL MP version 6.0.6278.8 Released

The OpsMgr 2007 MP for SQL 2000 and 2005 has been updated and was released to the MP Catalog on 3/31/2008 (version 6.0.6278.8). This version includes the fixes from all previous versions of the MP and is supported on both OpsMgr 2007 RTM and OpsMgr 2007 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:12 PM by corband | 3 Comments
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Microsoft IT's OpsMgr 2007 Deployment: MS and GW

Management Servers The management server (MS) role has not changed significantly from previous versions of Operations Manager (OpsMgr). An MS is still responsible for receiving data from agents, and forwarding that data along to the relevant locations. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:11 PM by corband | 2 Comments
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