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Friday, May 30, 2008 10:20 AM

Management Packs Guides Online

Source Jeanie Decker and Raymond Chou "The Management Pack Guide library is now live on TechNet. About half (23) of the Operations Manager 2007 guides are available in the library now, with the rest to be added over the next few weeks. The guides
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:20 AM

Passed OpsMgr Configuring Exam (070-400)

Today I did my Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Configuring Exam and passed with a score of 980 points. Still room for improvement… http://twitpic.com/1lc8 I thought it was easy, but I work with the product every day and I still love it
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:25 PM

Management Pack for SAP Monitoring

Source: RealTech REALTECH's newly developed Management Pack for SAP Monitoring is one of the first integration modules to use the .NET interface of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to display real-time information on the availability, performance,
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:28 PM

New Updates for Management Packs

WSS 2.0 (2003) Management Pack. Release date: /27/2008. http://tinyurl.com/6ftfmy Terminal Services 2000/2003 MP for OpsMgr 2007. Release date: 5/27/2008. http://tinyurl.com/33ltyj SharePoint Portal Server 2003 MP for OpsMgr 2007. Release date: 5/27/2008.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 12:57 PM

Evaluation of SCCP 2007 by Ian Blyth

Source: Ian Blyth Ian gives a clear evaluation of System Center Capacity Planner for OpsMgr 2007. “I can say now that I am very disappointed with it and can’t see me using it at all even if it is the official sizing tool.” The only thing
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Monday, May 26, 2008 11:03 AM

Update: OpsMgr 2007 Toolbox

I’ve updated my OpsMgr 2007 Toolbox with the Windows PowerShell Scriptomatic from Ed Wilson, My Log File Viewer Util from Jeevan Bisht and the Data Warehouse Data Retention Policy tool from Daniel Savage. Here is the link to the updated version.
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 2:02 PM

What is Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)?

Did you hear about Pro Packs or Pro Tips lately? And do you know what they are? I saw this question in an internal mail thread and I must say I didn’t knew much about it also. So here is some info about PRO which is a new feature of SCVMM 2008 .
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:30 PM

PowerShell Scriptomatic

Ed Wilson has created a Scriptomatic PowerShell Version, which you can download here . This Scriptomatic writes Windows PowerShell scripts that harness the power of WMI (Windows Instrumentation Management) for use in system management and administration.
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Monday, May 19, 2008 2:46 PM

Viewing OpsMgr Eventlogs on remote computer

Source: The Manageability Team Blog Jeevan Bisht has written a “utility” that lets you view System Center Operations Manager 2007 Server/Agent Event logs on a remote computer if you don’t have installed an OpsMgr Agent or Server on the
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Monday, May 19, 2008 12:13 PM

OLE DB Data Source MP Template connection strings

Operations Manager 2007 comes with several standard management pack templates. You can use these templates to create a new management pack and then customize that management pack to your requirements. This approach provides an alternative to creating
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:10 PM

Removing the Operations Manager 2007 Data Warehouse

During some commandline installation testing I accidentally installed the OpsMgr Data Warehouse in a wrong directory, so I wanted to uninstall the database and used the GUI setup in an effort to delete the Data Warehouse (OperationsManagerDW). Luckily
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:29 PM

OpsMgr 2007: Parameters Explained

Some time ago I showed you can use PowerShell to create Events for OpsMgr 2007. And according to the comments quite some people have questions about Event parameters . After creating the first version of the PowerShell Create Events for OpsMgr 2007 script,
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:52 PM

RSS2Twitter Part 2

Thanks to Jeremy Pavleck I found out that Twitterfeed is much more efficient than using a PowerShell rss2twitter script. And he is right! But I learned some PowerShell creating the rss2twitter script ;-)
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:18 PM

RSS2Twitter PowerShell script

As you might have noticed I’ve been using Twitter quite often lately . On my previous weblog I installed a Drupal Twitter module for updating Twitter with my latest blog posts. But now I migrated to Technet Blogs I didn’t had this possibility anymore,
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:26 AM

Identifying source cause of excess resource consumption

Source: System Center Forum “When CPU and memory resource consumption are running at or near 100%, the first thing an administrator wants to check is what processes are running at the time the excess resource consumption took place. The problem
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:05 PM

Started MPNotifier on Twitter

I already posted an article on using Twitter and now I’ve create a MPNotifier Twitter account . So if you want to know about the latest MPs just follow the MPNotifier Twitter .
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:10 PM

Moved my weblog to Technet Blogs

People, Today I started to move my weblog ( http://weblog.stranger.nl ) to a Microsoft hosted weblog ( http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_stranger/default.aspx ). My old weblog took quite some time to manage and needs to be upgraded. So I though why not
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:05 PM

New version of PowerShell Event Creator for Operations Manager 2007

Some month ago I created a PowerShell Event Creator and quite some people liked what I did ;-) Now Ken has made some great additions to this PS script. How cool is that? This are the additions he made: Modification so that you can log events in any Event
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:00 PM

New PowerShell Event Creator for Operations Manager 2007

Did you remember the Event Creator for MOM 2005 which was available in the Resource Kit? You could use this tool to create events for testing Management Packs. Event Creator enables you to choose event sources for the existing event logs that are currently
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:23 AM

Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Documentation

Source: Microsoft Download Center Overview This download contains the following documentation for System Center Operations Manager 2007: • Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide: This guide steps you through the deployment process for System Center
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:23 AM

Service Level Dashboard for Operations Manager

Source: Operations Manager Product Team Blog The Service Level Dashboard for Operations Manager 2007 is a new Solution Accelerator that addresses IT Service Managers’ need for near real time, end-to-end reporting of the performance and availability
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:22 AM

Xandros leader in offering suite of MP applications?

Source: Edge Martin Buckly of Microsoft talks with Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros about working with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions and the new opportunities Xandros is seeing. Andreas Typaldos: “Xandros
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:22 AM

Operations Manager 2007 Capacity Planning Model released for System Center Capacity Planner 2007

Source: Clive Eastwood The capacity planning model for OpsMgr07 has now been released for SCCP 2007. Read more on source .
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:21 AM

OpsMgr 2007 Design Tips from the Field

Source: Raymond Chou Raymond has posted an article about some Design Tips for OpsMgr 2007. I totally agree with Raymond’s list of Design Tips. These are the ones I used for my last OpsMgr Design: Design Rules/Best practices: (1) No more than 2000
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:21 AM

Silect MP Studio Lite vs MPViewer

Feature MP Studio Lite MPViewer Register Management Groups 1 Group n.a. Multiple views of Management Pack files or installed Management Packs X you need to select a MP to view Graphical view of MP references X View Content – rules, monitors, modules,
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:20 AM

Extending the System Center Content Search Windows Gadget

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the System Center Content Search Windows Gadget. This gadget makes it easier to find help for Microsoft System Center products because it uses Live Search macros to search specific sites instead of the entire web.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:18 AM

Exclusive: Savision Live Maps 2.0

Savision showed their new version Live Maps 2.0 on MMS, and because I’ve been a beta tester I can already tell you it has some great new features. NEW FEATURES Live Maps Web Console The Live Maps web console displays Live Maps maps in Microsoft
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:18 AM

Microsoft Cross-Platform Extentions

BARRY SHILMOVER: “So as you look over on the left, the box on the top is your Operations Manager system, the one on the bottom is your UNIX or Linux environment. And there's really three components that get placed down on the box, or on the system.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:17 AM

Free download of Silects MP Studio Lite

Source: System Center Forum “Silect Studio has delivered for the Operations Manager community in a big way with MP Studio 2007 Lite, a scaled down version of MP Studio designed primarily for MP reporting (in HTML format).” Go for download
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:16 AM

New OpsMgr Beta Downloads from Microsoft Connect

On MMS they announced System Center Operations Manager 2007 Platform Extensions and Connectors and Center Operations Manager 2007 Connectors for HP OpenView (Unix/Windows) and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC). Go download the betas from Microsoft Connect
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:16 AM

Not at MMS what now?

So if you are not at MMS in Las Vegas like me what to do if you want follow what is going on in the System Center (OpsMgr) field? These are things I’m doing to follow what is going on. RSS feeds: Wally’s Weblog System Center Forum System Center
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:15 AM

OpsMgr Authoring Console available for download

Source: Operations Manager Product Team Blog The System Center Management Pack Authoring Console 2007 has been released to the Web. Go for download locations to source .
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:14 AM

Secure Vantage Security Management Pack Templates

Source: Secure Vantage Team Blog I was lucky enough to get a preview of Secure Vantage Security Management Pack Templates and more this week and there are very cool! I wanted to write about them but it was NDA, but now the Secure Vantage Team has blogged
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:14 AM

OpsMgr 2007 DB sizes. Which calculator should I use?

Source: Ian Blyth – System Center Technologies Ian has published an article about calculating the DB Sizes from OpsMgr 2007 Performance and Scalability Guide. Besides this Guide Kerrie and Cameron and Satya Vel also published about how to calculate
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:13 AM

System Center Content Search Windows Gadget

Source: Techlog This gadget makes it easier to find help for Microsoft System Center products because it uses Live Search macros to search specific sites instead of the entire web. Search results are only returned from sites that are known to contain
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:13 AM

Input asked about OpsMgr Cluster MP

Source: OpsMgr++ Boris Yanushpolsky is asking about your experiences with the new released Windows 2003 Cluster MP. Please visit his weblog for more info.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:12 AM

Mother of all OpsMgr lists

Source: Ian Blyth Ian was kind enough to put a list together with all kinds of info on OpsMgr 2007. It was scattered and still is but now available from one “mother of all” OpsMgr lists ;-) Check it out here .
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:11 AM

New version Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability Whitepaper

Source: Microsoft Download Center There is a new updated version of the Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability Whitepaper. What has been updated? April 1, 2008 Updated in this release: · Cover page · Gateway information updated
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:10 AM

First impression of Security Top Alerts MP (STAMP) from Secure Vantage

Secure Vantage is offering a free download of their Security Top Alerts Management Pack (STAMP). STAMP is designed to provide key alerting for Windows Server Security events leveraging System Center Operations Manager 2007. STAMP is intended to provide
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:07 AM

Keep your VHD files as defragmented as possible

I’ve build a new virtual OpsMgr 2007 SP1 test environment and wanted to optimize the VHD’s as much as possible. To keep the VHD files as defragmented as possible I used Contig v1.54 from SysInternals .
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:07 AM

Introduction to the Microsoft.com Engineering Operations Team

Source: Microsoft Operations "The Microsoft.com Operations Team is pleased to announce the launch of our new Microsoft.com Engineering Operations TechCenter . This site ids designed with the ITPro/Systems Engineer in mind. We get to work on some
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:06 AM

Why not use Twitter as MP Notifier?

I’m trying to use Twitter more and more and why should not we use it for notifying about new OpsMgr downloads? I’ve created a “tweet” about the Remote Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide and RelNotes available on Microsoft
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:04 AM

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed errata

Last I finally got my System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed book delivered at home and started reading this great "mother of all" OpsMgr 2007 books. And I found out that my name was mentioned on the blog list of page 1314 but my name
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:04 AM

Version numbers of management packs

Source: Word and Software Jeanie Decker wondered how the version numbers of management packs worked and a program manager explained it her. And now everybody knows ;-) Example: 6.0.5000.12 “The first three sections of the version (or build) number
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:02 AM

Open Source PowerShell Implementation

Source: Miguel de Icaza's web log "This weekend at the Code Camp in Waltham, Igor Moochnick announced the release of pash his open source power shell implementation. It currently runs on Linux, MacOS, WindowsCE and Windows. Igor's project is hosted
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:00 AM

Participate in a user research study with SCE?

Source: Microsoft Internal Do you want to participate in a user research study with SCE? Microsoft user researchers wanted to invite IT pros to participate in a user research study.  We are looking to learn from those who use System Center Essentials
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:00 AM

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Pro SCOM and SCCM Connectors

Source: Microsoft Download Center With Microsoft Visio 2007 Pro the user now has the ability to connect data to diagrams and use data graphics to make the visualization more meaningful and impactful. The OpsManager and ConfigManager Solution for Visio
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:58 AM

System Center Operations Manager 2007 SQL Log Shipping Guide

Source: Aquilaweb David Allen has created a guide on how to set-up and configure Log Shipping for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 between two SQL servers in the same Management Group. Great work David! Go and download guide at source
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:58 AM

Management Pack for Nokia Firewalls released by Jalasoft

Source: Bernardo Sanchez Blog SMP for Nokia Firewalls now available Jalasoft has released the new SMP for Nokia Firewalls. It is now really simple to add your Nokia Firewall into the Operations Manager 2007 environment. The SMP comes with a large number
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:57 AM

OpsMgr 2007 toolbox

There are so many tools currently developed that it is hard to know where to find them. Here is a list that I know of maybe it’s helpful to you. Please let me know if I’m missing one. Tool Purpose Description Author Website Mpviewer 1.7 MP viewing Browse
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:56 AM

OpsMgr SP1 slipstreamed on MSVLS

You can now download OpsMgr SP1 slipstreamed on MSVLS .
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:55 AM

Should I get into trouble?

I almost ever use OpsMgr instead of SCOM in my writings. But I’m curious if I get into trouble now I used the SC-word ;-) I don’t hope my manager will read this… Why should I get into trouble? Read more on myITforum . This is by-the-way
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:54 AM

Free Chapter of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed

Source: NetworkWorld I’ve ordered my System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed book at Amazon, but you can already start reading Chapter 3 Looking Inside OpsMgr because you can download this Chapter for free. I’ve downloaded it via my
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:53 AM

Tool for removing Management Packs with references to unsealed MPs

Source: Secure Vantage Team Blog I already tried to create a PowerShell script to remove a MP with references to other unsealed MPs but due to some other things ;-) did not finish it, but now Secure Vantage has released a tool that you can use to remove
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:52 AM

Announcement of new System Cent Virtual User Group

Today a new System Center Virtual User Group got launched. “Welcome to the System Center Virtual User Group , a community dedicated to providing resources for education and collaboration between users of Microsoft System Center technologies everywhere!
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:52 AM

Laura Chappell about Network Forensics

Last I week I got my portable multimedia player the Archos 604 for our  hard work and commitment throughout the year and as a device to take some training while we are traveling ;-) I immediately bought the DVR Station so I could record my favorite
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:51 AM

Using OpsMgr Notification Channels

Source: Steve Rachui's Manageability blog - SMS/MOM Steve has blogged about commandline notifications and variables. "When enabiling modem paging (or similar) it is often a requirement to pass the user name or phone number of the user being contacted
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:50 AM

Operations Manager 2007 SDK documentation and helpfile

Source: Operations Manager Product Team and Clive Eastwood The Operations Manager 2007 SDK documentation is available on MSDN at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108753 , and it is now also available on the Microsoft Download Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108754
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:49 AM

Updated version of Scheduled Tasks - Management Pack from Inovativ

Scheduled Tasks - Management Pack INOVATIV presents the Scheduled Tasks management pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. Completely free and without any restrictions! They have put their experience of System Center products and solutions to
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:48 AM

More info on Windows Server 2003 Cluster Management Pack

Source: Marius Sutara Weblog After the release of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 I had some questions and got them answered pretty quick by Marius. But for everyone who want to know more on the MSCS
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:48 AM

Finally! Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

Source: Microsoft Download Center The Windows Server 2003 Cluster Management Pack monitors the health of the Windows Server 2003 clusters. This management pack is designed to improve the availability, performance, and security of your Windows Server 2003
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:46 AM

ShellRunAs by SysInternals

Source: Marcus Oh The command-line Runas utility is handy for launching programs under different accounts, but it’s not convenient if you’re a heavy Explorer user. ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of Runas to launch programs
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:45 AM

OpsMgr 2007: ModuleExplorer v1 and Run As profile configuration helper v1

Source:  Boris Yanushpolsky Again has Boris developed a new tool for OpsMgr 2007. Maybe it's time to install Visual Studio and also try to create a new tool for OpsMgr ;-) He wrote a small utility to provide some visibility into the library of modules
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:44 AM

System Center Authoring Console (Release Candidate)

Source : Microsoft Download Center Right on the heels of Operations Manager 2007 SP1, download the System Center Authoring Console Release Candidate. This powerful console enables our customers and partners to author Management Packs offline and get them
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:44 AM

What agents report to management server?

Source: Microsoft Internal Do you want to know to which agents report to a specific Management Server? Just execute the next code in your OpsMgr Command Shell. Function GetSpecificAgents ([string]$managementserver) {   write-host ""  
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:43 AM

Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool

The Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool is a productivity tool that helps architects and system designers to generate models of an application that contribute to minimized TCO. These models include configuration, instrumentation, health,
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:42 AM

MOM 2005: Computer Groups and Computer Rules what's the deal?

Since I started at Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer I went to quite some customers still using MOM 2005, so for all of you already working with OpsMgr 2007 (SP1) here some "old school" info on Computer Groups and Computer Rules in MOM 2005.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:41 AM

OpsMgr SP1 now RTM

Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 has Released-to-Manufacturing (RTM), and is now available for download!  System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 helps you increase efficiency while enabling greater control of your IT environment—so
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:40 AM

Using Authorization Manager (AzMan.msc) for viewing OpsMgr User Roles

Source: Aquilaweb Did you know you could use Windows Authorization Manager ( azman . exe ) to view the user roles and how they are scoped in OpsMgr? Read more on source .
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:39 AM

System Center Service Manager delayed until the first of half of 2010

Source: NEXUS SC: The System Center Team Blog Paul Ross announced that Service Manager will now not be released until the first half of 2010, with a beta refresh available towards the end of 2008. Mean reasons of this delay are the requirements that came
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:38 AM

Free Scheduled Tasks Management Pack

Source: Innovativ INOVATIV , a Dutch based System Center solutions provider, has just launched their Scheduled Tasks management pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. Completely free and without any restrictions you can download this native management
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:38 AM

Savision joins System Center Alliance

Source: Techlog Savision B.V. announced its participation in Microsoft's System Center Alliance. Savision’s participation builds upon its strong relationship with the System Center Product Group and creates new opportunities to closely collaborate
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:37 AM

Windows Security Auditing Reference List

Source: Secure Vantage Team Blog Secure Vantage released a Windows Security Auditing Reference List that provides content on more than 1300 Windows security events and settings. For System Center customers this is an excellent reference of the base Windows
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:36 AM

White Paper on the integration of EMC Smarts and System Center Operations Manager 2007.

Source: Microsoft Download Center As IT infrastructures grow in complexity, IT administrators continue to search for solutions that will help them effectively monitor and maintain these environments. But it is not enough to just monitor servers and applications.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:35 AM

Language issue in Create Performance Rule Wizard?

Yesterday I've been busy finding out which Performance Thresholds are used for OpsMgr performance monitoring. The reason why, was because we got a Performance class training during my internal Microsoft training. Learned quite some new interesting stuff
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:30 AM

New MPViewer version by Boris

Source: Boris Yanushpolsky Boris has released a new version of his already famous MPViewer. It's version 1.3. Check out his website for more info. Maybe I should try to contact Boris when I'm here during my internal Microsoft Services training so I can
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:30 AM

Meeting the OpsMgr heroes

Yesterday I arrived for my three weeks internal Microsoft Services Training in Redmond and today I still had some time to spent and so I emailed Justin Incarnato to ask if I could meet some of the OpsMgr team members. Luckily he had some time and together
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:27 AM

OpsMgr email notifications with high importance

Source: Microsoft Internal Have you ever wanted to send e-mail notifications with the high importance flag set? It's possible but you have to start your favorite XML editor ;-) Modifying Microsoft.SystemCenter.Notifications.Internal MP XML to Support
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:27 AM

Operations Manager 2007 SP1 tracing

Source: Notes on System Center Operations Manager "As described in this KB article , OpsMgr2007 is using ETW/WPP tracing which was not very customer consumable. The conversion to readable text was required with the use of TMF files which did not
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:25 AM

Xian Io Video

Source: Bernardo Sanchez Blog In this video you get a quick overview of how Xian Network Manager Io works with System Center Operations Manager 2007. Focus will be on: - Adding devices / servers - Adding monitoring rules - performance data and alerts
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:23 AM

Using OpsMgr 2007 RC1 SP1? Update your MP's

Source: Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog " One step it seems people often overlooks when upgrading to OpsMgr 2007 RC1 SP1 - is to update their management packs. The management packs that ship with the product are RTM version (6.0.5000.0) Often, users will
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:22 AM

Conversion issue Symantec Backup Exec 11d MOM MP to OpsMgr 2007 MP

Source: SCUG.nl Forum One of our members of the SCUG.nl Forum found a solution for an issue when converting the MOM 2005 MP for Symantec Backup Exec 11d to OpsMgr 2007 MP. During the import of the converted MP you see the next message " The client
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:21 AM

TechNet Magazine - January 2008

TechNet Magazine spend a great deal of time introducing you to what System Center can do for you. Whether it's managing your virtual machine environments to keep abreast of needs and performance, or using new Asset Inventory Service from Microsoft to
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:18 AM

Documenting your OperationsManager Database? Use SqlSpec!

Today I stumbled on a great tool for documenting your database SqlSpec 3.7 from Elsasoft. SqlSpec will generate easy-to-read database documentation for any of the following platforms: SQL Server 2000, 2005, and above Analysis Server 2005 Oracle 9i and
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:17 AM

Rule and Monitor Targeting Best Practices Poster

Below is a link to a targeting poster that we have created to help select the proper targets when creating rules and monitors. The poster illustrates some of the most common scenarios and provides best practices on how to properly target rules and monitors.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:14 AM

OpsMgr 2007 RTM and SP1 RC command line parameters (Complete List)

Source: Operations Manager Product Team Blog "Below is the complete list of all the command line parameters for OpsMgr 2007 server roles including Audit Collection. And the command line parameters for upgrading to Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate
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