Patrick Egloff's WebLog : Microsoft Operations Manager

Announcing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Beta 2

pegloff — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:54:00 GMT

Microsoft just announced the public availability of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Beta 2. This is the first beta of the new verison of MOM "going public".

You can read the Beta 2 FAQs @ http://www.microsoft.com/mom/evaluation/beta/opsmgrfaq.mspx or go directly to the download page @ http://connect.microsoft.com/programdetails.aspx?ProgramDetailsID=500

Please note that you will need to fill-out a short survey but should then get access to the beta bits immediately after.

More to come ...

Patrick

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Network Information Management Pack Membership

pegloff — Wed, 24 May 2006 18:53:00 GMT

Following-up on my post from last week: The limit for project members has been extended for the Network Connection Information MOM Management Pack on gotdot.net.

Existing requests will be granted soon and new requests can placed as before.

Patrick

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Network Connection Information MP Project FULL

pegloff — Fri, 19 May 2006 15:17:00 GMT

Wow, I am amazed in the interested in my Network Connection Information MOM Management Pack on gotdot.net

It's one of the top projects in the MOM group, and I have reached the default project member limit.
Therefore: Applications for project membership can't be approved at the moment, but they will be kept in the queue. I'll try to get the limit extended as soon as possible.

Also: If you just wan't to download the MP and use it you don't have to become a project member.
Project members get the benefit of being able to file bugs, work on future versions of the MP and have notifications being sent on any news. So if you want to join: Please do so!

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Some Blog Links

pegloff — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:01:00 GMT

Sorry if it has been rather quiet here - I'm pretty busy supporting a local telco preparing the public launch of the IPTV Edition of Microsoft TV (more on that in the near future)

For those wanting some recommendations on blogs I check daily:

Microsoft Switzerland Security Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/ms_schweiz_security_blog/)
My colleagues Roger and Urs blooging on the latest security topics
Swiss IT Professional & TechNet Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/chitpro/)
Lots of news for the ITPro audience
MOM Product Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/)
The latest and greatest directly from the product team in Redmond
Andrzej's "IT Thoughts" Weblog (http://blogs.technet.com/alipka/)
Fellow Microsoft Consulting services member Andrzej posting on MOM and other IT management topics
Windows PowerShell (http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/)
Lately renamed from "Monad" - very active blog on this great new technology, heavily used by the next releases of MOM and Exchange (amongst others)

Patrick

BTW: I use Windows Live Beta for this - and Outlook 2007 as soon as my notebook is ready for it!

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MOM Hints & Tipps: Multiple View Panes

pegloff — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:36:00 GMT

Like to view as much information as possible in the MOM Operator Console? Need to view event data at the same time as performance data?

The MOM Operator console allows you to have multiple view panes - a future I've not seen used too often. Either because it's useful on large screens only ot because it was not known.

Open the "File" menu, select "Console Settings" and adjust the number of View Panes

Confirm the settings with OK and allow the console to refresh.

A console with two view panes would look something like this:

Patrick

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MOM: Featured Group on gotdotnet.com

pegloff — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:36:00 GMT

Maybe not new to some of you but still worth mentioning from time to time: There is a featured group on MOM 2005 on gotdotnet.com.

Here's the direct Link

Any since yesterday my Network Information Management Pack is listed there as well.
Thanks to everyone who has downloaded it so far and keep the comments coming.

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Updated Network Connection Information MOM Management Pack

pegloff — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:03:00 GMT

Just a quick note: There's an updated version of the Network Connection Information MOM Management Pack available on gotdotnet.com which fixes a minor bug with WINS server detection and changes the schedule to update the information every 12 hours.

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MOM Network Information Management Pack

pegloff — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:46:00 GMT

Knowing details about network connections on your servers can be important in various scenarios. Did you ever ask yourself "Hmm, could it be that wrong DNS servers configured on this adapter could cause these problems?" or something similar?

MOM already comes with a "IP Configuration" task - but it has some limitations like only MOM Admins being able to execute the task, a quite cumbersome way to get access to the output and limited configuration information.

This whole topic come up - once more - during a recent consulting engagement and so I decided to put something together to make this available in the "Roles" tab in the MOM Operator Console.

The complete Management Pack is available on gotdotnet.com and can be downloaded for free. As always: Everything is provided provided "AS IS" with no warranties.

Check out the Network Connection Information MOM Management Pack Project Homepage for more details.

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MOM Hints & Tipps: The Roles Tab

pegloff — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:53:00 GMT

A great feature in the MOM Operations Console which often get's overlooked: The Roles tab

You can get a lot of useful information for a specific computer out of this tab.
What is available depends on the management packs installed and their implementation of it.

To access it, perform the following steps in the operator console:

Select "Computers and Groups" in the left pane of the console
Switch the display to show computers by clicking on "Computers"
Select a specific computer
Switch to the Roles tab in the lower right / middle pane

You can substitute the first two steps by anything that get's you to the computer list display (like right-clicking on an alert and selecting "View", "Computers" as an example)

Patrick

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