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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
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Recently I got some emails requesting for a ACS DB sizing calculator similar to what I had published for the OpsMgr Database and Data warehouse. While I was unable to put one for the ACS DB I did find that a couple of months ago Pete Zerger one of the
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Attachment(s): ACS DB Size Calculator.xlsx
The performance team had a thread discussing IOPS requirement with a customer who had some really good questions so and I thought I would share the thread with you all. For sizing the Operations Manager Database and Data warehouse I would highly recommend
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Watch the attached video on how to cluster a Root Management Server and promote a Management Server to take the role of a Root Management Server . Starr and Myself did a talk at MMS 2008 in Las Vegas on how to build a resilient Operations Manager 2007
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Attachment(s): http://download.yousendit.com/0409F98568765C22
We are still waiting for a hotfix from the Windows team. Unfortunately this has delayed us being able to support Windows Server 2008 for another month. The OpsMgr team is working with the Windows team on getting the necessary hotfixes ready for release.
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Last week the Operations Manager team attended the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 in Las Vegas and one of the big questions we got from almost all customers was when is the System Center Capacity tool going to be available? I glad to announce that the
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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
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Attachment(s): OpsMgr 2007 Hardware Recommendation.xlsx
On Feb 22nd we shipped the Service Pack 1 of OpsMgr 2007. We made one last minute change to one of the upgrade steps in the upgrade guide which did not make it to the upgrade documentation that was shipped with the SP1 bits. If users are upgrading from
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Attachment(s): OpsMgr2007_SP1Upgrade.doc
This is one of my favorite features/roles in OpsMgr 2007. When I refer to the Gateway Server I am referring to role in OpsMgr which can be used to monitor un-trusted domains/DMZs and not the spotted cow company that builds servers. If you are not leveraging
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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
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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
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Many people on MOMTech and other discussion groups have asked about the OpsMgr 2007 supported cluster configurations and I hope this blog clarifies what we support and do not support. This list of supported cluster configurations will be updated in the
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Network Bandwidth Utilization for the various OpsMgr 2007 Roles I recently started owning performance and scale for OpsMgr and it is definitely one of the most interesting and challenging areas I have ever worked on. I know the first question that is
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Attachment(s): ZipEmUp.zip
I have attached the OpsMgr 2007 Database and Data Warehouse excel calculator I have been using the last couple of months to calculate what I think the size of customers databases would be. This tool is put together based on data we got from MSIT DB and
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Attachment(s): OpsMgr2007 DB-DW Size Calculator.xlsx
In the last couple of years, virtualization technology has become the “hot thing” in the IT management space because it is seen as reducing overall IT costs which is every CTO’s dream. And the fact that you create backups of your environments is a life
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