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KB923103 - How to check for an event storm by using MOM 2005 Reporting
This Kb article will be available short on https://support.microsoft.com/?id=923103 This discusses...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 08/18/2006
KB923104 - How to turn on TraceLevel logging in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
Yes, this has been a long time in coming (blocked in one of our internal processes. Unblocked by...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 08/16/2006
KB923105 - How to determine which version of Microsoft Operations Manager you are running
This article was published on how to determine the MOM version you are running...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 08/16/2006
Localized versions of the SQL Server MP for 2005 are now available
Localized versions of the SQL Server 2005 MP version 09.0.2047.0000 downloadable from...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 08/16/2006
MOM Availability Reporting Management Pack should re-release before Aug 31 - News
The Availability Reporting Management Pack was withdrawn from the Microsoft download site in early...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 07/21/2006
KB922342 - Neither SQL Server 2005 nor SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 supports Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator version 2.1
KB922342 - https://support.microsoft.com/?id=922342 This article should be available shortly. I also...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 07/20/2006
MOM Reporting database grooming settings tool
The SCDWGroomingSettings tool is a UI based, UNSUPPORTED tool to allow changes to the groom...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 07/19/2006
KB922330 - Error message when you try to download a file by using the Background Intelligent Transfer Service: "Content file download failed"
KB922330 - https://support.microsoft.com/?id=922330 This error can occur when using the File Transfer...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 07/19/2006
KB922332 - How to move Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Reporting together with the MOM Reporting database to a different computer
I'm sure the title says it all https://support.microsoft.com/?id=922332
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 07/19/2006
KB899158 - How to Troubleshoot DTS and Database Sizing issues in MOM 2005 Reporting
KB899158 - https://support.microsoft.com/?id=899158 This article has had its ttitle changed from "MOM...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 07/19/2006
KBError message when you run the SQL Server 2000 Management Pack for MOM 2005 in low-privilege scenarios: "Unable to expand message 17055 "
KB920707 Is now available via the following link https://support.microsoft.com/?id=920707
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/27/2006
KB917665 - Event ID 21213 or event ID 21216 occurs and you cannot connect to the OnePoint database in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
KB917665 https://support.microsoft.com/?id=917665 Should be available shortly.
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/27/2006
KB919954 - Prerequisite Checker errors that may occur when you install Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Reporting
KB919954 See https://support.microsoft.com/?id=919954
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/27/2006
Receiving alerts "The agent was unable to send data to the MOM Server at {MOM ServerFQDN}. The error code is 10054, An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host"?
If you're receiving alerts "The agent was unable to send data to the MOM Server at {MOM ServerFQDN}....
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/27/2006
KB918481 - How to install Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Service Pack 1 databases and MOM 2005 Reporting on a computer that has Microsoft SQL Server 2005 installed
KB918481 This recently released KB article https://support.microsoft.com/?id=918481 has some great...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/21/2006
MOM SDK ScriptContext.Sleep method should be documented in Milliseconds (Not Seconds)
The MOM 2005 SDK incorrectly documents the ScriptContext.Sleep method for temporarily pausing a...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/19/2006
Beta Management Packs for Project Server 2007 Beta2, SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta2, Sharepoint Server 2007 Beta 2 released
Management packs for Project Server 2007 Beta2 -...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/16/2006
MOM Datawarehouse reindexing script
MOMResources.org are hosting an unsupported reindexing script for the SystemCenterReporting...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/16/2006
KB919598 - When you try to import a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 report, the import process fails
KB919598 will shortly be released and available via https://support.microsoft.com/?id=919598 This is...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/15/2006
KB918176 -You receive duplicate alerts after you click to select the "Suppress duplicate alerts" check box and then commit configuration changes in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
KB918176 should be available shortly via the following link https://support.microsoft.com/?id=918176...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/14/2006
KB895324 - Error message when you start the MOM 2005 Operator console on a computer that is running MOM 2005 and Windows Server 2003: "Application has generated an exception that cannot be handled"
KB895324 should be available short via the following link shortly...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/07/2006
Updated - Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
The SQL Server 2000 - SQL Server 2005 Management Pack has been updated MP Version is now...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/07/2006
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Beta 2 Available
Operations Manager 2007 Beta 2 is now available for preview. See...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/06/2006
Temporarily withdrawn from the Microsoft download site - Microsoft Availability Reporting Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
The Microsoft Availability Reporting Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 has/ or...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 06/02/2006
Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator is not supported on SQL Server 2005
I've heard this asked about a few times now so thought it best to confirm it. The current...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/23/2006
A further update on "Failure to import some MOM reports with SQL Reporting Services 2005"
Microsoft management packs still awaiting updates to reports per my original post...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/23/2006
MPInfo Utility - A command line utility to dump AKM descriptions and Versions
This utility allows you to easily identify which versions of .AKM files you previously copied to a...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/19/2006
KB918278 - How to uninstall a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Management Pack
KB918278 Should be available via the following link shortly https://support.microsoft.com/?id=918278
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/18/2006
KB917666 - The MOM 2005 Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator is not supported on a SQL Server 2000 cluster
KB917666 This new KB article for MOM is now available. The Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/17/2006
Further to my post Failure to import some MOM reports with SQL Reporting Services 2005
One MP I missed which still experiences the report import problem (see...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/15/2006
MOM 2005 System Requirements Web Page now includes SQL Server 2005
The MOM System Requirements page https://www.microsoft.com/mom/evaluation/sysreqs/default.mspx has...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/12/2006
Failure to import some MOM reports with SQL Reporting Services 2005
This is documented in a small section at the bottom of https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917615...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/12/2006
Find a Rule by its GUID
This utility which uses the MOM 2005 SDK is useful when executed via a MOM Ops Console Task against...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/09/2006
KB914835 - Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 may stop processing incoming SNMP traps after receiving many traps in a short time
The following KB article was released May 4 2006. See https://support.microsoft.com/?id=914835 for...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/09/2006
MRASRptClean.exe - Utility to delete old Availability Management Pack Reports
There is currently no documented method of removing old previously generated Availability Management...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/05/2006
KB917615 Updated - The MOM 2005 Service Pack 1 operational database and Reporting data warehouse now support SQL Server 2005
This article https://support.microsoft.com/?id=917615 has now been updated to include the latest up...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/04/2006
KB918712 - When you try to install MOM 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Reporting, the prerequisite checking process fails
This KB article is now posted https://support.microsoft.com/?id=918712. See my previous post.
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/04/2006
KB918711 - Error message when you try to install the Availability Reporting Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Service Pack 1: "Error: -2147217900: failed to execute SQL string"
This KB article is now live see my past articles https://support.microsoft.com/?id=918711
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/04/2006
KB918711 - "Error: -2147217900: failed to execute SQL string" when installing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Service Pack 1 Availability Reporting Management Pack
Pending release at this time My favourite subject ;) Summary Attempting to install the Availability...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/03/2006
KB918712 - Unable to contact the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services server via WMI" error when installing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Service Pack 1 Reporting
Pending release at this time. Summary "Unable to contact the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/02/2006
MOM 2005 SP1 support for Windows Server 2003 R2 And SQL Server 2005 (SP1)
MOM 2005 SP1 is supported on Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL Server 2005 (and SP1). The following web...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 05/02/2006
KB899158 - MOM 2005 OnePoint database increases and Reports are empty or incomplete in MOM 2005 Reporting
KB899158 Summary - This is a update to a previously released article on troubleshooting failure to...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 04/26/2006
KB913812 - After you install version 2.0 of the .NET Framework on a site server that is running Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 with SP1, you can no longer discover computers in Active Directory
KB913812 Summary - Previously managed MOM Agents start appearing in the Pending Actions node of the...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 04/26/2006
915785 - Error message when you use SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to generate HTML reports in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005: “There is an error in XML document”
KB915785 Summary - You receive "There is an error in XML document (line, position). ' ', hexadecimal...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 04/26/2006
KB913801 - You notice an increase in event and performance data latency after you upgrade the MOM 2005 Server OnePoint database to Microsoft SQL Server 2005
KB913801 Summary - After upgrading a MOM 2005 SP1 database server to SQL Server 2005 you notice...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 04/26/2006
KB918119 - The ReliabilityAnalysisReporting scheduled task takes longer than expected in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
Released 04/25/06 Summary - Due to a misconfigured collection rule in the Availability Reporting...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 04/26/2006
Monad becomes Windows PowerShell
Also announced at MMS, the task-based command line shell for Windows a.k.a. Monad, was given its...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 04/26/2006
The next version of MOM gets its official name "Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007"
Announced at the Microsoft Management Summit, MOMv3 gets its official name "Microsoft System Center...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 04/26/2006
MOM 2005 SP1 Support for SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 is supported for new and upgrade installs of MOM 2005 SP1. The following hotfixes...
Author: CliveEastwood Date: 04/14/2006