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The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated guides for deployment and operations: Windows Deployment Services and System Center Operations Manager. These guides, updated to reflect the features and functionalities of Windows Server®
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Below are the steps necessary to stop monitoring a cluster that will be decommissioned and is currently being monitored with System Center Operations Manager 2007. If you do not follow this procedure, there is a risk that you may have orphaned virtual
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Agent Proxy needs to be enabled for several different management pack features to work properly. Active Directory, Cluster and Exchange are few common management packs requiring Agent Proxy to be enabled, just to name a few. Enabling the Agent
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In System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1, the option to filter notifications by category was available in the UI but in the R2 release many changes were made to improve the flexibility of notification subscriptions and the category option
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System Center Operations Manager 2007 uses mutual authentication to communication with the agents. First the agent will try to communicate with Kerberos and when this is not possible certificates will be used for the secure communication. If you
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If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time then you’re already familiar with the postings made by Steve Rachui over on his Manageability blog, but there’s been a flurry of activity over there in the past two days and it probably deserves
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The Operations Manager product team blog just posted some great information on what you need to know about upgrading and deploying System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Some of the big changes include: Operations Manager R2 now supports OM database
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Here’s a neat piece of documentation I came across today that was written by one of our top Support Escalation Engineers, Ganesh Babu gnana Sundaram. If you ever need to reconfigure a Gateway server to communicate with a different Management server
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Here's another cool webcast that actually occurred last month but you can still view it online in case you missed it. We get quite a few questions about how to deploy and upgrade to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 so if this is something you
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System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 is a new management solution specifically designed for IT professionals working in midsize businesses who often face IT challenges similar to those of larger enterprises—troubleshooting user problems, automating management
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Steve Rachui has a good tip on using our Best Practice Analysis tool over on his Manageability blog. If you’ve never seen this tool before then you’ll want to read this one: If you work with OpsMgr you work with management packs in some form - either
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Steve Rachui has a great post on an issue he ran into using a couple deployment packs from IBM and Dell. He includes his resolution as well so if you’re using any of these you might want to check this out: OEMs (currently Dell and IBM) provide deployment
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Our very own Steve Rachui posted some great information today on how connected management groups in System Center Operations Manager 2007 work If this is something you work with then you’ll definitely want to check this out. I have Steve’s
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