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.
Where did all the posts go?
Many of us are beginning to pack things up and head out for the holidays so I just wanted to give...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/18/2008
OpsMgr by Example: Agent Deployment using ConfigMgr
Looks like there's a new installment in the OpsMgr by Example series over at...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/18/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Tips on installing the Web Console component on Windows Server 2008
The OpsMgr product team just posted some good notes on getting the Web Console component installed...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/18/2008
Tips for installing clients to Windows SteadyState PCs
We've received a couple calls on this so I thought a quick post might help just in case you're using...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/17/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Disk space monitoring of SQL DB file does not trigger an alert if DB is set to Autogrow
Here's an interesting issue that was sent to me by Rohit Kaul on our OpsMgr 2007 team. This...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/16/2008
New Knowledge Base articles for 12-7 through 12-13
For the week of 12-7 through 12-13 we had two new Knowledge Base articles for OpsMgr 2007. ...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/15/2008
OpsMgr 2007: How to make ACS work on port other then the default
Here's an interesting tip sent to me by Milan Jajal on how to make ACS work on a port other than the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/11/2008
OpsMgr 2007: How to identify what scripts are running on the agents, including frequency and parameters
Here's another interesting one for you. What I wanted was a way to track what scripts are...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/10/2008
New Knowledge Base articles for 11-30 through 12-6
For the week of 11-30 through 12-6 we had two new Knowledge Base articles. The links and...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/08/2008
OpsMgr 2007: How to make your Reporting install a success
The MOMTeam blog just posted a great list of prerequisites that will help ensure that Reporting...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/05/2008
New and updated Knowledge Base articles for 11-23 through 11-29
For the week of 11-23 through 11-29 we had one updated and one new Knowledge Base article on MOM...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/03/2008
New and updated Knowledge Base articles for 11-16 through 11-22
Sorry for the delay in posting the new KB's but I took a couple days for Thanksgiving and I'm just...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 12/02/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Viewing Alert and Event data generates HTTP 401 error if using an account beginning with "!"
Here's an interesting Operations Manager issue I came across today. If you happen to have accounts...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/20/2008
OpsMgr 2007: R2 beta is now available
Just in case you missed it, the folks on the System Center blog announced that the OpsMgr 2007 R2...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/20/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Reporting Fails With "Unable to get the Management Server Action Account"
Reporting is the word of the day so here's another OpsMgr Reporting issue you may run across. This...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/19/2008
OpsMgr 2007: The DBCreatewizard utility fails with a BadImageformatException when run on a 64-bit OS
I'm going through a couple older issues and posting the resolutions just in case one of you happen...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/19/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Reporting console returns error "Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'"
Here's an interesting one I came across that I think you'll find interesting. This one covers a...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/19/2008
Didn't pass that Microsoft Certification exam? Get a free second shot
Just an FYI that Microsoft is offering a free second chance to pass that Microsoft Certification...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/18/2008
OpsMgr 2007: How to search the entire database for a string value or GUID
Here is an older tip but it's one we use (or some variation) quite a bit in support. This...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/17/2008
The database discovery scripts (DiscoverSQL200*DB.vbs) fail on SQL servers with DBs larger than 32GB in the 6.0.6441.0 version of the SQL MP
In case you missed it, The MOM team announced a new issue they've discovered. Apparently the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/14/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Rule does not appear while creating custom Event View
Here's another cool tip sent to me by Milan Jajal, a support engineer in our Manageability group. If...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/13/2008
OpsMgr 2007: How to create an Alert rule based on an Event description
Here's a cool tip sent to me by Milan Jajal, a support engineer in our Manageability group. If you...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/12/2008
New and updated Knowledge Base articles for 11-2 through 11-8
Wow, we hit the mother lode this week. We had nine new and one updated Knowledge Base article...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/11/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Registry keys to control the refresh of the admin console
The esteemed Adrian Doyle sent me some cool registry keys that can be used to control not only what...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/11/2008
OpsMgr 2007: The AD and DHCP Management Packs have been updated
We had a couple new Management Pack updates released last Friday, one for the Active Directory...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/10/2008
News and Support information - Now on Twitter
Hi everyone, just a quick FYI that if you're signed up for Twitter you can now receive Tweets on all...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/06/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Cluster shows as not monitored under cluster state
Every once in a while we run across an issue where the cluster state view in System Center...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/06/2008
Recommendations for antivirus exclusions in MOM 2005 and OpsMgr 2007
I came across some official antivirus exclusion recommendations for MOM 2005 and Operations Manager...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/05/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Agents connect to the wrong management server and generate 20064 events
Here's a great tip sent to me by Sam Allen, one of the top Support Escalation Engineers in our Texas...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/05/2008
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 Now Available
OK, I know this isn't really MOM or OpsMgr specific but it was just too cool to let slide under the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/03/2008
OpsMgr 2007: A custom linked report Management Pack sample
Over on Steve Rachui's Manageability blog he posted a great sample showing how to build an MP...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 11/03/2008
OpsMgr 2007: The Management Pack for SQL Server has been updated - now supports SQL 2008
The Operations Manager Team Blog just announced that version 6.0.6441.0 of the SQL Management Pack...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/30/2008
Modifying the frequency and threshold of Exchange MP disk monitoring
I want to highlight an issue with the Exchange 2007 Management Pack (MP) in terms of disk monitoring...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/29/2008
New and Updated Knowledge Base articles for 10-19 through 10-25
We had two updated and one new Knowledge Base articles for the week. Links and titles are...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/28/2008
Reports in the Exchange Management Pack may time out
Just a quick heads-up on an issue we're starting to see more of these days. The reports in the...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/27/2008
OpsMgr 2007: How to get the list of all the computers in Maintenance Mode
Here's a cool tip from Ritesh Grover, one of our top support engineers on our Operations Manager...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/23/2008
SCE: How to Change Windows Firewall Exceptions for System Center Essentials 2007
Here's a great tip from Nicholas Dodge, a senior support engineer on our Manageability team. ...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/22/2008
Updated Knowledge Base articles for 10-12 through 10-18
We had two updated Knowledge Base articles for the week. Links and titles are below: ========...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/21/2008
OpsMgr 2007: Operations Manager 2007 Receives Community Award
Looks like OpsMgr 2007 won another award. This time, Paul Ross over on the System Center Team...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/21/2008
Coming soon...
Author: J.C. Hornbeck Date: 10/16/2008