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The IPD Team just sent out an announcement concerning the IPD beta and how it now covers VMM 2008, OpsMgr 2007 and IIS 7. Some of you probably already get this but just in case you don't I included it below: ======== We are pleased to announce that
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Have you ever downloaded an OpsMgr 2007 Management Pack but had trouble figuring out what's new, what's changed or even how to use it? If so then what you'll want to do is check out the MP's corresponding Management Pack Guide. Out on our
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I have had few cases recently where my customer has reinstalled their SMS sites but prior to doing so they failed to remove all the traces from the DB and Register etc. This can cause a lot of issues with the Hierarchy later so to make this process easier
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Overview Everyone should be aware by now that Windows PowerShell is the latest scripting environment for managing and maintaining Windows servers, workstations and applications. This cube note provides a brief introduction to PowerShell resources and
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A question I get asked every now and then that doesn't seem to be particularly well documented is whether SMS 2003 supports renaming of the domain or domain migration. While technically two different things, the short answer is no, we do not support
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We recently released the very cool System Center Operations Manager 2007 SCW Roles and Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2003 and a brief description and download link is below. Check it out: ======== Brief Description: The Operations
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We have a couple updates to the old tried and true docs you might be interested in. The updated docs and what's new or added are below: ======== Security Guide (April Update) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852ed79859&DisplayLang=en
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The Operations Manager 2007 Capacity Planning model has now been released to the Web. The download is available here: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6fec1f12-a62c-4e8d-8a19-56879192adc3&DisplayLang=en The Capacity Planner
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Last week I talked about the release of OpsMgr 2007 SP1 so I wanted to take a minute and post a link to the upgrade guide. Depending on where you're coming from there may some gotchas you'll want to keep in mind, so before you head out on the upgrade
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One of our Premier field Engineers, Ambrose Wong, wrote a fantastic Connector Quickstart Guide that Jakob Oleksy put out on his blog. If you're interested in developing your own connectors then this is the place to start. The intro is below
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My buddy Jamie recently posted a great write-up on how to review and analyze log files quickly and easily. It's a great post and if you ever have to troubleshoot any part of SMS 2003 or ConfigMgr 2007, or any System Center product for that matter, you
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Yea, I know this really isn't SMS/MOM/System Center specific but it's pretty cool no matter what Microsoft technology you're planning on rolling out. So as you plan your migration to any of Microsoft’s latest OS and Office solutions, how great
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Here's a link to a cool poster we have that can help you determine the proper targets when creating rules and monitors in System Center Operations Manager 2007. The poster shows some common scenario's with their associated "Do's" and "Don't's"
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We get a few questions about Wake On LAN (WOL) every now and then so if this is something you're looking at implementing then here are a few tips and links to get you headed in the right direction. So why do I care about Wake On LAN? WOL allows
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Here's a quick heads up that we just updated the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability Guide to include Audit Collection Services (ACS) sizing information. You can download a hardcopy here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/3/6/d3633fa3-ce15-4071-be51-5e036a36f965/OM2007_PerfScal.doc
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