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.
OpsMgr 2007: Backup programs may fail to backup the event log when the 64-bit agent is installed
Here’s an interesting issue sent to me by one of the top Tech Leads on our OpsMgr support team by...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 04/02/2009
Two new Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base articles for the week ending 03/28/2009
We had two new Operations Manager Knowledge Base articles published last week. The first is...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/30/2009
Four new Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base articles for the week ending 03/21/2009
Sorry for the lag in getting these posted but I’ve been out of the office for a while and then had a...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/30/2009
Microsoft Support Model Changing for System Center Products
I just got back from a week long vacation and I’m still trying to get caught up, so if you’re...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/24/2009
One new Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article for the week ending 03/07/2009
Just an FYI that we have a new Knowledge Base article available for System Center Operations Manager...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/10/2009
Evaluate Systems Center Essentials with the new Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 VHD
System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 is a new management solution specifically designed for IT...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/09/2009
Using SiteName when deploying gateways to help manage alerts
The Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 team blog has a great post on using SiteName when...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/09/2009
Checking Management Packs for Best Practice Adherence
Steve Rachui has a good tip on using our Best Practice Analysis tool over on his Manageability...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/09/2009
Tips for using OEM Deployment Tools
Steve Rachui has a great post on an issue he ran into using a couple deployment packs from IBM and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/09/2009
How to design a custom performance report in OpsMgr 2007
Have you ever wanted to design your own custom performance reports using Operations Manager 2007 but...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/05/2009
Connected Management Groups in OpsMgr 2007 – How it works
Our very own Steve Rachui posted some great information today on how connected management groups in...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/04/2009
A couple issues regarding the recent cluster Management Pack
Just an FYI that the Operations Manager product team published a couple known issues regarding the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 03/02/2009
Want to help shape the next version of System Center Configuration Manager?
If you've ever said "You know, if I was the one designing System Center Configuration Manager...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/26/2009
KB957123 may cause the SDK service and Config service to become disabled
Just a quick heads-up that the System Center Operations Manager product team has uncovered an issue...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/25/2009
We had two new Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base articles last week
Just an FYI that we have 2 new Knowledge Base articles available for System Center Operations...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/24/2009
OpsMgr 2007 Solution: Management Pack scripts fail and consume large amounts of memory
Here's an issue that was sent to me courtesy of a couple different Support Engineers in our...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/24/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Why does my Windows 2000 Cluster show as ‘Not Monitored’ under the Cluster State View?
A couple months ago I spoke with a customer that had a relatively large environment that included...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/23/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Task results may return unformatted XML
When running one of the tasks in the action pane of System Center Operations Manager 2007, the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/19/2009
Monitoring Configuration Manager 2007 with Operations Manager 2007 in a 64-bit Environment
Confused about monitoring System Center Configuration Manager with Operations Manager in a 64-bit...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/18/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Port requirements for SCOM agents in a DMZ
Here's another interesting issue I came across the other day that I thought I would share with you...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/17/2009
Resources available for the deep MP author
Just a quick FYI but over on the Operations Manager Team Blog they published a couple great...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/16/2009
Beta of the native Exchange 2007 Management Pack is now available
Wanting to get your hands on the new beta of the native Exchange 2007 Management Pack for Operations...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/16/2009
Operations Manager R2 - Apply, Get it, Tell us what you think!
Looks like the public beta for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is now open. To find...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/16/2009
Webcast: Amplify Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007: Extend its power to centrally manage your heterogeneous IT environment
A buddy of mine forwarded me a tip about a webcast coming up on 2/25 (two weeks from yesterday)...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/12/2009
Do you have a question or need help with Operations Manager?
Are you looking for a forum or newsgroup where you can get help with OpsMgr? Would you like to...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/11/2009
Configuring Connected Management Groups in OpsMgr 2007
Our very own Steve Rachui just posted a cool how-to on setting up connected management groups in...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/10/2009
New OpsMgr and MOM KB articles for the week ending 02/07/2009
Last week we had one new Knowledge Base article on MOM and two new articles for OpsMgr 2007. ...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/10/2009
TechNet Webcast: Managing Virtual Solutions with OpsMgr and ConfigMgr 2007
Here's another cool webcast we have coming up on managing virtual solutions using OpsMgr and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/09/2009
TechNet Webcast: Developing Custom Reports and Operational Dashboards with Operations Manager 2007 R2
We have a cool webcast coming up on Friday, February 20th concerning custom reports and Operational...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/09/2009
Upcoming event: System Center Meets Virtualization – Fulfilling the Promise of the Dynamic Datacenter
Just a quick note about an upcoming event we have planned that you may be interested in. This...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/05/2009
Monitoring Forefront Security for Exchange with OpsMgr 2007
Over on msexchange.org, Rui Silva published a great article on monitoring Forefront Security for...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/05/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Management Pack Quality Survey
Over on the Operations Manager 2007 product team blog they announced that they're launching a new...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/05/2009
NiCE DB2 Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007
Just an FYI, but if you haven't seen it yet NiCE has a DB2 Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007 in case...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 02/02/2009
Microsoft Management Summit 2009
I know many of you will probably be heading to Las Vegas for MMS 2009 and if so we have all the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/29/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Error running report: "Message: Loading reporting hierarchy failed.” “Access is denied"
Hi Everyone, my name is Prakash and I recently worked an interesting case that I wanted to share...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/27/2009
One new Operations Manager Knowledge Base article for the week ending 1/24/2009
Last week we had one new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article - The link and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/26/2009
Anti-virus software may cause script failures in OpsMgr 2007
We've been getting a few calls on this here in product support so I think it's probably worth a...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/22/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Programmatically creating a list of groups
Just in case you missed it, Brian Wren recently posted a cool example on how to programmatically...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/22/2009
Four new OpsMgr 2007 KB articles available for the week ending 1/17/2009
Last week we had four new System Center Operations Manager 2007 related Knowledge Base...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/21/2009
Resetting the health state of your systems using the GreenMachine utility
Tim Helton, a Senior Supoport Escalation Engineer in our North Carolina office, recently posted a...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/20/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Creating a performance collection rule to collect perf data for Windows servers
A buddy of mine sent me a link to Lynn Lunik's latest post over on myITforum.com and as is always...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/15/2009
Virtualizing server roles in Operations Manager 2007
Just in case you missed it, over on SystemCenterForum.org they have begun a neat series of posts on...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/15/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Discovery Wizard never ends and no computers are discovered
This is kind of a weird one but I came across it the other day and thought it might be worth a quick...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/14/2009
Three new OpsMgr 2007 KB articles available
Last week we had three new System Center Operations Manager 2007 related Knowledge Base...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/13/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Sample MP to discover AD security group membership
If you've been an Operations Manager admin for any length of time you've probably had a need to...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/13/2009
OpsMgr 2007: Online Management Pack Guides
Have you ever downloaded an OpsMgr 2007 Management Pack but had trouble figuring out what's new,...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/12/2009
OpsMgr 2007 client agents may log OpsMgr Connector 21028 and HealthService 6001 errors
Here's an interesting issue we ran into the other day. I didn't see this documented anywhere...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/08/2009
System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Service Pack 1 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
I was actually looking for something else when I came across this MP for Mobile Device Manager 2008...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/07/2009
New Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base articles for 12-14 through 12-20
For the week of 12-14 through 12-20 we had three new OpsMgr 2007 related KB articles. The...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/06/2009
The OpsMgr 2007 DNS MP version 6.0.6480.0 is Released
This may be old news to some of you but I've been out of the office for a couple weeks and I came...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 01/05/2009