The System Center Operations Manager Support Team Blog
This is the OpsMgr 2007 blog for the Microsoft support team. If you were looking for the SCOM 2007 or MOM 2005 blog then you are in the right place.
A recap of OpsMgr 2007 announcements you may have missed last week
A lot went on last week surrounding System Center Operations Manager 2007 so in case you might have...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/26/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Discovery Wizard may fail for multi-homing mixed version Management Groups
Let’s say you’ve got a mixed version (SP1 and R2) Operations Manager 2007 environment and agents are...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/21/2009
New KB Article: KB973583 - Description of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Agent Update
We just published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Operations Manager 2007. This...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/20/2009
Update to the Exchange Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 now available
Updates to the Exchange Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 are now available on the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/15/2009
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Update Now Available for Download
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Update adds fixes for a defunct process...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/14/2009
The System Center Online Desktop Manager beta is coming soon
You’ve heard about it and read about and now you’ll soon have the chance to try it out...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/14/2009
Provide feedback and vote on your favorite new OpsMgr features
The Operations Manager Product Team blog just posted a request for feedback and a vote for which new...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/13/2009
OpsMgr 2007 R2 Management Pack version 6.1.7533.0 released
Just in case you missed it, last week the Operations Manager Product Team announced that: “…the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/13/2009
TechNet Webcast: Optimizing Operations Manager for Monitoring, Auditing, and Dashboards
Learn how to optimize Microsoft System Center Operations Manager for cross-platform devices,...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/08/2009
Understanding Monitors in OpsMgr 2007 part III – Dependency Monitors
Steve Rachui posted Part 3 in his series on monitors in Operations Manager 2007. If you liked...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/07/2009
Updated Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides: WDS and OpsMgr 2007 R2
The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released two updated guides for deployment and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/07/2009
When taking agent out of maintenance mode, old events are reprocessed and new alerts generated
We’ve been seeing a couple instances of this so I thought it would be worthy of a mention just in...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/07/2009
How to decommission a cluster monitored by System Center Operations Manager 2007
Below are the steps necessary to stop monitoring a cluster that will be decommissioned and is...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/01/2009
TechNet Webcast: Understanding Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability
In this webcast, we discuss the fundamental concepts around the architecture and design of Microsoft...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/30/2009
SQL Management Pack Survey - Live on Connect
Must be survey time of the year because the OpsMgr team is also looking for feedback on the SQL...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/29/2009
OpsMgr 2007 PowerShell Survey
The System Center Operations Manager team is looking for feedback from all OpsMgr 2007 (RTM, SP1 and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/29/2009
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 Beta now available
Overview Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 provides IT professionals in mid-sized...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/29/2009
Enabling Agent Proxy for a Class in System Center Operations Manager 2007
Agent Proxy needs to be enabled for several different management pack features to work properly....
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/29/2009
New KB Article: KB975439 - You receive an HTTP Error 403 page when you access the Reporting Services virtual directory for System Center Operations Manager 2007 after you upgrade to Windows Server 2008
We just published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Operations Manager 2007. This...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/28/2009
Some common Operations Manager issues we get here in product support
We recently did an analysis of the issues we’ve been seeing on the Operations Manager product...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/23/2009
New KB: Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 in System Center Operations Manager 2007
The announcement of support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 has already been made but here...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/21/2009
OpsMgr 2007 SP1 and R2 now officially support Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
Last Friday the Operations Manager product team announced that support is now available for running...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/21/2009
Microsoft Windows Key Management Service Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 v2 Released
The Key Management Service is used to activate computers running Windows Vista and Windows Server...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/17/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Troubleshooting Console Performance in large environments
This is an older troubleshooting article that was originally posted on our old SMS&MOM blog back...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/17/2009
Clarifying Windows OS Support and Configuration Manager 2007
Update: I just realized I posted this to the OpsMgr blog instead of the ConfigMgr blog so you'll...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/17/2009
OpsMgr 2007 R2 now officially supports Windows Embedded
Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 now officially supports the agent on Windows Embedded...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/16/2009
Categories Filter Missing in OpsMgr R2 Notifications
In System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1, the option to filter notifications by...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/15/2009
Two new KBs this week: One on OpsMgr 2007 and the other on System Center Essentials
We had two new Knowledge Base articles last week on System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/14/2009
Step by Step for using Certificates to communicate between agents and the OpsMgr 2007 server
System Center Operations Manager 2007 uses mutual authentication to communication with the agents....
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/10/2009
A few tips on troubleshooting Domain Controllers appearing in a not monitored state
Do you have some domain controllers that are appearing in a Not Monitored state? If so, while...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/09/2009
Understanding Monitors in OpsMgr 2007 - Part II Aggregate Monitors
Our very own Steve Rachui recently started a new series of posts based on his highly touted MMS 2009...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/08/2009
Understanding Monitors in OpsMgr 2007 Part I – Unit Monitors
Our very own Steve Rachiu recently started a new series of posts based on his highly touted MMS 2009...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/03/2009
Want to try out some new AEM reports?
The MOM Team just released a handful of new AEM/DEM reports that they’re testing in case you want to...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/02/2009
New Management Pack for BizTalk Server 2009
Love SCOM 2007 but wishing for a better way to monitor all your BizTalk 2009 Servers? Well today is...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 09/01/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Event ID: 29106 "Failed to connect to an IPC Port: Access is denied"
When running System Center Operations Manager 2007 you may notice the following event: Event Type:...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/27/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Performance and scaling issues with the converted Exchange 2007 management pack
When you import the converted Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/26/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Gateway Approval Tool fails with the error "Invalid relationship target specified in the discovery data item"
Just a quick tip in case you run into this. When you run the Operations Manager Gateway Approval...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/25/2009
New KB article: OpsMgr 2007 installation fails with Account Verification Error
When you try to install Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 on Windows Server 2008, the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/24/2009
Error with SRSUpgradeTool.exe /PostUpgrade when attempting to upgrade an OpsMgr R2 SQL 2005 Reporting Server installation to SQL 2008
When following the steps of this article, https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd789004.aspx,...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/13/2009
Operations Manager 2007 R2 - Sizing Helper now available
The OpsMgr 2007 R2 Sizing Helper is an interactive document designed to assist you with planning...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/12/2009
New KB article: MonitoringHost consumes 100% CPU on SCOM agents
In System Center Operations Manager 2007, agents may consume 100 percent of CPU resources for the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/10/2009
Two new System Center Operations Manager 2007 KB articles for the week ending 08/01/2009
Just an FYI that we recently published a couple new Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/04/2009
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Reporting Guide - call for scenarios
Friday was a busy day for the Operations Manager product team. Not only did they release a new...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/03/2009
Visio 2007 Add-in for Operations Manager 2007 R2 Released
Looks like the Operations Manager team released the Visio 2007 Add-in for System Center Operations...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 08/03/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Installation of Engyro Product Connector may fail with "There is a problem with this Windows Installer package"
When installing the Engyro Product Connector onto a secondary SCOM 2007 server, the installation may...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/27/2009
Jumping on the Facebook bandwagon
I was looking around Facebook the other day and thought “Wow, there sure are a lot of companies out...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/23/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Scripts may not run when expected
We recently saw an issue related to the scheduler function in the Operations Manager 2007...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/23/2009
The monthly availability report in MRAS may be missing some DCs and Exchange servers
When servers appear to be missing from the the availability reports it could be because of many...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/22/2009
One new System Center Operations Manager 2007 KB article for the week ending 07/18/2009
We just published a new Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 article where when you try...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/20/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Windows Agent Install MSI Usage Cases and Commands
Over on the System Center Operations Manager product team blog, Rob Kuehfus (Setup and Deployment...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 07/09/2009