You will likely find that the default retention in the OpsMgr data warehouse will need to be adjusted for your environment.  I often find customers are reluctant to adjust these – because they don't know what they want to keep.  So – they assume...

This is updated as of 8-11-2014 In general - you should evaluate all hotfixes available, and only apply those applicable to your environment. However, some of these below I have seen impact almost every environment, and should be heavily considered. This...

There is a new Base OS MP version 6.0.6972.0 available here:  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9296   Be very careful updating to this new version – there are multiple changes and potential issues you should plan for and...

This is just a dump of some alert description variables I pulled from several other bloggers: Custom Properties for Alert Description and Notification: Alert Description Variables:   For event Rules: EventDisplayNumber (Event ID):            ...

Recently I discussed that we released a new Base OS MP 6.0.6957.0 which added many new features to the base OS MP’s.  In some of these new features, we got some feedback on some issues, and we are shipping an updated version of the MP to resolve...