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OpsMgr 2007 R2 now offically supports Windows Embedded

Operations Manager 2007 R2 now officially supports the agent on Windows Embedded Standard 2009 . You can download the latest “System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Agent Prerequisites Macro for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 (x86) - (English)”, is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:50 PM by DeploymentMan | 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

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

Using SiteName when deploying gateways to help manage alerts

When deploying the Operations Manager gateway role you can tag the gateway with a Site name. Any alerts coming from an agent reporting to this gateway will now have it's "Site" property populated with the site name you configured when deploying the gateway. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:33 PM by rkuehfus | 8 Comments

Troubleshooting Ops Mgr Certificate issues with Powershell

The steps for configuring certificates in Operations Manager are numerous and one can easily get them confused. I see posts to the newsgroups and discussion lists regularly trying to troubleshoot why certificate auth is not working, perhaps for a workgroup Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 11:35 PM by latkin | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): OMv3CertCheck.ps1

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

Installing Operations Manager 2007 Reporting successfully

Detailed below are some validation steps that should be completed before attempting to install Operations Manager 2007 Reporting. During this installation, you are prompted for two accounts: the Data Warehouse Write account and the Data Reader account. Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:05 PM by dsavage | 7 Comments
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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 | 3 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 | 7 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
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