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Solution Summary: ACS Support for Unix and Linux Systems

Available by 2nd half of 2009 (late fall) - brought to you by the System Center Cross Platform team . Provide Audit Collection Services (ACS) for Unix and Linux systems Leverage OpsMgr 2007 R2 Cross Platform infrastructure to enable Unix/Linux auditing Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 12:05 AM by josephchan | 2 Comments

ACS Reports for Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2

ACS reports that will come out of the box with System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 , will support Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2. In addition, R2 which has many new enhancement and features - and for ACS in particular, it will also include Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 6:10 PM by josephchan | 6 Comments
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Attachment(s): ACS Reports.zip

Security Hardening Guide

The Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 Security Hardening Guide is designed to provide you with essential information about how to further protect, or harden, your Operations Manager 2007 environment in conjunction with the Security Configuration Wizard Read More...
Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 1:20 AM by jdowning | 2 Comments

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

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

Cerificate Template for Third-party CA

Some customers have asked how they can obtain a certificate for use with Operations Manager 2007 when are using a Certificate Authority (CA) other than Certificate Services on Windows Server. Use the template below: [Version] Signature= "$Windows NT$" Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 2:29 PM by jdowning | 2 Comments
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Two items regarding the Gateway Server

In the past week I have received two queries from customers that I want to share. The first is that when you use the Gateway Approval Tool, it will attempt to write data to the Operations Manager database. Ensure that the account you log in with to use Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 1:05 AM by jdowning | 0 Comments
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Security Guide has been updated

The new June25th release of the Operation Manager 2007 Security Guide is now available at the following URL: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OpsMgr2007_Security.doc New topics in this release: · Role-Based Read More...
Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 1:24 AM by jdowning | 1 Comments
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Phase 1 of the Security Guide is Online

Phase 1 of the Operations Manager 2007 Security Guide is now available online at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/opsmgr/2007/library/proddocs.mspx The first phase of the Security Guide was written rather quickly to address the top two security-related Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 13, 2007 12:03 AM by jdowning | 1 Comments
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Creating a read-only MOM Operator Console

A question that I hear frequently is "How do I create a read-only Operator Console"? The MOM security groups are 'MOM User', 'MOM Author', and 'MOM Administrator'. Unfortunately, there is no 'MOM Read-only User' security group. This means that there is Read More...
Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 2:34 PM by Travis Wright | 1 Comments

Securing MOM

Many customers are interested in best practices for securing their MOM 2005 deployment. Beyond the documentation we provide (see the MOM Security Center as part of the MOM 2005 Admin console\Information Center) here are a couple more tips: Use Security Read More...
Posted Friday, August 19, 2005 9:27 PM by Lorenzo | 2 Comments
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