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How to Delete an Operations Manager 2007 Managed Object from a Management Group using PowerShell

We have had some customers ask us if there is a way to remove an agent managed computer using PowerShell from OpsMgr 2007 after the agent managed computer has been turned off. The scenario is that the machine that has an agent installed on it gets de-commissioned Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:30 PM by DeploymentMan | 6 Comments
Attachment(s): DeleteAgent.zip

You may need to update the agent restart threshold on Exchange 2007 Servers Managed by Operations Manager 2007

The Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack tracks memory usage of the MonitoringHost.exe process via the private bytes counter. By default, the agent will be automatically restarted if memory usage for MonitoringHost.exe is above 100MB. On large Exchange Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 12:09 AM by akepettersson | 5 Comments

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

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

Getting headaches trying to figure out why you are seeing the 'Not Monitored' state for Management Servers or Agents?

Every week I see one customer running into an issue where they either see the management servers or agents showing up as not monitored. While there a number of reasons why these roles may show up as being ‘not monitored’ I wanted to list out a couple Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 10:06 PM by DeploymentMan | 1 Comments

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

Steps to install OpsMgr 2007 DB and Reporting on Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn)

If you are like me and just itching to try and install OpsMgr 2007 DB and Reporting on Longhorn and cannot wait till SQL 2008 to install SQL on Longhorn as they do not support SQL 2005 on Longhorn you can try my HACK!! Yes, this is NOT supported by the Read More...
Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 6:00 PM by DeploymentMan | 6 Comments

Remote Agent Prerequisite Checker Tool For OpsMgr 2007

With the help of one of my colleagues we have put together a remote agent prerequisite checker tool for OpsMgr 2007. This tool is the command line version of the MOMNetCheck tool we shipped with MOM 2005 resource kit. The new tool allows you to specify Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:39 AM by DeploymentMan | 3 Comments
Attachment(s): MOMNetChkCmd.zip

OpsMgr 2007 Database and Data Warehouse Size Calculator

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 9:51 PM by DeploymentMan | 6 Comments
Attachment(s): OpsMgr2007 DB-DW Size Calculator.xlsx

If you install OpsMgr 2007 Reporting and then install secondary MS then it will not be able to write DW data as profiles are not created

I just realized that we had not created a KB article for this issue so I thought I would blog about this issue while the KB article is in the process of being published. Issue: If you install reporting and then install a secondary MS then it will not Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:59 PM by DeploymentMan | 0 Comments

Disaster Recovery: OpsMgr 2007 Root Management Server on a Cluster

I know we still haven't offically published any disaster recovery documentation but I hope the attached document gives you an idea of how you can recover from an Root Management Server on a cluster disaster scenario. We hope to have this offically published Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 6:32 PM by DeploymentMan | 6 Comments
Attachment(s): OpsMgr 2007 RTM - RMS Cluster Disaster Recovery.doc

Common Problems When Recording Browser Sessions

When trying to record a browser session for the first time, you might see the following error (click for larger picture): To fix this problem, follow these steps in Internet Explorer: Click Tools -> Internet Options . Click the Advanced tab. Under Read More...
Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 3:49 PM by Jonobie Ford | 2 Comments
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Removing dependencies on the Default Management Pack

If you created overrides before you knew about storing overrides in your own Management Pack and need to remove a Management Pack, here's how you can delete a Management Pack that has a dependency on the Default Management Pack. Essentially, you need Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 6:27 PM by Jonobie Ford | 1 Comments
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