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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
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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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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
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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
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
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Attachment(s): Troubleshooting AEM and DEM.docx
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,
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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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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
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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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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
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Attachment(s): Setting Up Constraint Delegation.docx
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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