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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

What other operations happen during (Push/Manual)agent install (Push/Manual)?

You want this information if you are going to use SCCM or some other product to deploy Ops Manager agents. So here is what happens in splash screen underneath (same happens in push-agent) 1. If MSXML 6.0 is not installed install it (You can get it from Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:47 AM by anandha_ganesan | 1 Comments
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Audit Collection (ACS) Database and Disk Sizing Calculator for OpsMgr 2007

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:13 PM by DeploymentMan | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): ACS DB Size Calculator.xlsx

Performance IOPS for the DB and DW in OpsMgr 2007

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:27 PM by DeploymentMan | 2 Comments

Obtaining Certificates for Ops Mgr via Command Line or Script

If you are deploying Ops Mgr on machines in untrusted domains or DMZs (anywhere outside of Kerberos trust), then you are going to need to leverage PKI and set up certificates on your boxes in order for authentication to work. The process of requesting Read More...
Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 6:15 PM by latkin | 5 Comments

Bad Situation-Good Results: OpsMgr 2007 High Availability and Disaster Recovery

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:57 PM by DeploymentMan | 6 Comments
Attachment(s): http://download.yousendit.com/0409F98568765C22

Troubleshooting Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) and Desktop Error Monitoring (DEM) features

Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) of System Center Operations Manager and System Center Desktop Error Monitoring (DEM) are identical features with the only difference being that AEM is shipped with Operations Manager 2007 and DEM is shipped with Microsoft Read More...
Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 5:33 PM by DeploymentMan | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Troubleshooting AEM and DEM.docx

Secondary Management Server install fails if Reporting is already installed with DW action account and RMS action account are the same

Issue: If you try to install a secondary Management Server (MS) in a scenario with Root Management Server(RMS) and Reporting installed with Data Warehouse(DW) action account and Root Management Server action account (default action account) is the same, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:00 PM by DeploymentMan | 1 Comments

Update 6/26 - OpsMgr 2007 with SP1 Support for Windows Server 2008 update!

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. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:52 PM by rkuehfus | 9 Comments

OpsMgr 2007 Capacity Planner Tool (Final Version)

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 8:55 PM by DeploymentMan | 1 Comments

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

Agent upgrade from SP1 RC (build 6246) to SP1 RTM (build 6278)

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 6:13 PM by DeploymentMan | 5 Comments
Attachment(s): OpsMgr2007_SP1Upgrade.doc

10 Reasons to use a Gateway Server

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:19 PM by DeploymentMan | 1 Comments

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

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
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