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How does MP Import work? And how do MPs get down to the HealthService?

Many people have asked how MP import works and how do MPs get down to the health service. Hopefully this diagram helps explain some of this. Satya Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:32 PM by satyavel | 2 Comments

Windows Agent Install MSI Use Cases and Commands

Recently, I have had a bunch for requests for more detail on installing a Windows Agent or upgrading a Agent from the command line. So here you go!! Use Case Command Fresh Install and set specific action account msiexec.exe /i \\path\Directory\MOMAgent.msi Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:42 AM by rkuehfus | 0 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

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

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 | 6 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 | 3 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

EventLog Explorer

The Event Explorer tool can be useful for functional and exploratory testing and debugging. The main purpose of this tool is to reduce burden of manual retrieving and creating EventLog related information since all necessary data regarding installed event Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:20 AM by zbutor | 5 Comments
Attachment(s): EventLogExplorer.zip

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
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