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How does MP Import work? And how do MPs get down to the HealthService?

Many people have asked how MP import works and how do MPs get down to the health service. Hopefully this diagram helps explain some of this. Satya Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:32 PM by satyavel | 2 Comments

OpsMgr 2007 SP1 and R2 now officially support Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Support is now available for running Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and Operations Manager 2007 R2 on the following operating systems: · Windows Server 2008 R2 · Windows 7 The official support statement is posted under Knowledge Base article 974722 . The Read More...
Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 8:04 PM by corband | 0 Comments

New Beta AEM\DEM Reports

As part of OpsMgr 2007 R2 and Desktop Error Monitoring 3.5 (DEM) we will be releasing four new AEM reports later this month. The 4 new reports are: - Top Blue Screen Computers - Top Blue Screen Computers by User - Top Crashing Applications by User - Top Read More...
Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 9:22 PM by DeploymentMan | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): DEM Reports.zip

Windows Agent Install MSI Use Cases and Commands

Recently, I have had a bunch for requests for more detail on installing a Windows Agent or upgrading a Agent from the command line. So here you go!! Use Case Command Fresh Install and set specific action account msiexec.exe /i \\path\Directory\MOMAgent.msi Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:42 AM by rkuehfus | 0 Comments

New R2 Deployment Complex Scenarios (Adding Clustered RMS and Upgrading to SQL 2008)

In OM2007R2, we have introduced two new complex deployment scenarios we did not support in OM2007SP1. I am going to take a few minutes here and outline the new scenarios and procedures. Adding Clustered RMS to an Existing Deployment In OM2007SP1, clustering Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 1:08 AM by rkuehfus | 2 Comments

What’s new in R2 Deployment and Upgrade

<Update> I have include information on how to upgrade from R2 RC to R2 RTM. Not much has changed when upgrading from Operations Manager 2007 SP1 to R2 or deploying a fresh installation of Operations Manager 2007 R2. However, I do want to take the Read More...
Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 12:24 AM by rkuehfus | 6 Comments

Notification Test Tool

The Notifications Test Tool is a simple tool you can use to test your notification channels and subscriptions. This tool can be used to test email (SMTP), Instant Message (IM) or Text message (SMS) channels. Also, you can use this to generate a test alert Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:11 PM by rkuehfus | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): Notifications Test Tool.zip

Notifications Update Alert History Tool

One of the challenges we face when working with notifications in System Center Operation Manager is figuring out if a notification subscription was triggered and who received it. Currently in OM2007SP1 and OM2007R2 we do not record when the notification Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 9:43 PM by rkuehfus | 9 Comments
Attachment(s): Update Alert History Tool.zip

To Repair or not to Repair, that is the question?

I have recently seen many different uses of the agent "Repair…" action when it comes to agent install and upgrade. I have put together the following information with the help of the setup team to guide you on the uses of the repair action. Summary: When Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 25, 2009 7:01 PM by rkuehfus | 0 Comments

Installing Web Console on Windows Server 2008

Recently, I have seen a bunch of newsgroup questions on installing the Web Console component on Windows Server 2008. Please take a look at the following requirements to get up and running on Server 2008 You must add the Web Server (IIS) role and then Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:52 PM by rkuehfus | 5 Comments

How to Delete an Operations Manager 2007 Managed Object from a Management Group using PowerShell

We have had some customers ask us if there is a way to remove an agent managed computer using PowerShell from OpsMgr 2007 after the agent managed computer has been turned off. The scenario is that the machine that has an agent installed on it gets de-commissioned Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:30 PM by DeploymentMan | 6 Comments
Attachment(s): DeleteAgent.zip

MPViewer Library Extraction of management packs

The OpsManJam site has added a MPViewer dump folder in the library. While we are just starting out, what you will find here are MPViewer (thanks Boris) extractions of all the Microsoft published management packs as HTML pages. You can use this as a reference Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:29 AM by chrfox | 1 Comments

Infrastructure Planning Guide for OpsMgr 2007 SP1

A few of us have been working with the Solutions Accelerator team and Pete Zerger to come up with an Infrastructure Planning Guide for OpsMgr 2007 which got published a couple of weeks ago . This document will lead readers through a sequence of core decision Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:30 AM by DeploymentMan | 1 Comments

Additional Resource, OpsManJam site is live

Hi all - An additional resource for Operations Manager 2007 MP Authors and IT Pro's is now live at OpsManJam . This site, sponsored by Microsoft, focuses on MP Authoring best practices and tutorials. There is deployment and administration content for Read More...
Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 11:59 PM by chrfox | 1 Comments

grayed out healthy agent icon

Recently we have been receiving some questions on the meaning of the 'grayed-out, Healthy' agent status icon (see picture below). You will see this in the Monitoring space in the Computers view and the Discovered Inventory view and the Operations Manager Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 11:36 PM by chrfox | 3 Comments
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