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Microsoft on What's Next for Managing Datacenters and the Cloud!
Microsoft is going to invest heavily in Dynamic IT / cloud capabilities that Virtual Machine Manager vNext and Operations Manager vNext will deliver. Here is a small list of things that Microsoft wants...
MMS 2010 Keynotes
The MMS 2010 keynotes are available online!   KEY1 Managing Systems from the Datacenter to the Cloud Bob Muglia, President of Microsoft Server and Tools Business, returns to speak at this year's...
New management packs for OpsMgr in October
Microsoft is working very hard these days and is has released a whole bunch of updated and new management packs this month. Here is an overview: Server 2008 Network Load Balancing 10/22/2009 (6.0.6726...
OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP version 6.1.7553.0 is Released
Just got an email from Microsoft saying that they just released their first out of band update to the Operations Manager Management Pack! Notice that this update mp is only available for OpsMgr 2007 R2...
Video Interview: Implementing SCOM in a large Belgium Hospital by Alexandre Verkinderen
Alexandre Verkinderen, System Center Operations Manager MVP, talks about the monitoring solution he implemented at AZ Sint Maarten, a large Belgium Hospital. Together with Sigurd Corluy, System Engineer...
Unique Opsmgr 2007 training event (Belgium) : Management Pack Development Course
Hi all, I am very proud to be able to announce that we will be able to host a Unique Opsmgr 2007 training event in Belgium. Is the average training not meeting the depth of technical content you need?...
Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just released an update for the windows server mp. They now support Windows 2008 R2 ! Another nice thing is that finaly you can also display the logical disk size in MB’s! It was so damn stupid...
Windows Key Management Service MP for Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just released a new KMS mp for opmsgr 2007. Be carefull when importing it via the catalog with the OpsMgr 2007 R2 console. Before importing the mp you will need to uninstall any previous version...
Proliant Management pack RealtimeMonitors_SNMP.FailedComponent Auto Server Recovery 0
Just imported the HP Proliant management pack for SCOM 2007 and hade a lot of servers in warning state even if nothing was wrong in the Insight homepage. So I opened the healthexplorer and found RealtimeMonitors_SNMP...
Export SQL reports in PDF landscape
I had to create some reports for a customer this week and the layout of the report didn’t satisfied my client. The reports are exported in portrait format and not in landscape format. First part...
SCUG.BE session on Service Manager
Service Manager: From Re-active to Pro-active In this session Maarten Goet, SCOM MVP and participant in the TAP-program for Service Manager, is going to show us what the possibilities are of Service Manager...
System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Transition to System Management Suite Datacenter
As mentioned in here the  System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Licensing has changed since today. Microsoft has developed a transition path from the SCSMSE to the newly SMSD: License Grant...
HP EVA performance management pack V2 for Opsmgr
In a previous blogpost I already mentioned that Alain Cote has developped a HP EVA performance management pack.   Alain has continued to improve his management pack and wow we have an update with...
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
The new Exchange Server 2007 management pack for Opsmgr 2007 R2 is now RTM and available from the mp catalog ! New monitoring wizard for configuring the Exchange MP:     Feature Summary A number...
Opsmgr Performance problems with healthservice on agents
On some occasions the scom agent can cause a lot of performance issues on the servers. Here I will describe some steps I take when I have performance problems and in most of the cases it works for me....
Collect Processor time % of the HealthService.exe of your agents
If you have performance problems on your agents it’s probably the healthservice.exe that’s taking a lot of processor time %. At the moment only the processor time of the healthservice of the...
Changes effective July 1st to System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Licensing
FYi   Components of Server Management Suite Enterprise Enterprise server management licences<Server MLs> for · System Center Operations Manager 2007, · System Center Configuration Manager 2007...
Session Recording Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment.
SESSION RECORDING Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment System Center Operations Manager 2007 is THE end to end Monitoring Solution. In this session we will discuss...
Interview with Nigel Cain at Techdays 2009 in Antwerp on SCSM
At Techdays 2009 in Antwerp we interviewed Nigel Cain ( Program Manager - Operations and Service Management group) and asked him some questions on System Center Service Manager: Have fun, Scug.be Team
Opsmgr DB Create wizard System.InvalidOperationException
Today I wanted to install my OperationsmanagerDB on my SQL cluster 2005 SP2 actif-passive. So I started the DBCreatewizard.exe and I got a very strange error mentioning something about Severity: Error...
SCOM 2007 R2 is RTM!
SCOM 2007 R2 is RTM! Download the scom 2007 R2 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=93ddf25b-1ef0-4851-81b0-5fb9a2f76181 Brief Description Microsoft System...
Opsmgr Data Warehouse failed to enumerate database components to be deployed
Today I ran into this issue: Data Warehouse failed to enumerate database components to be deployed. Failed to enumerate Data Warehouse components for deployment. The operation will be retried. Exception...
Third Edition of Microsoft Community Day !!
Community Day is back again, are you ready for our Third Edition of Microsoft Community Day? Eleven Microsoft User Groups combine their efforts to organize this unique networking and knowledge sharing...
Visio add-in for System Center Operations Manager
Microsoft just released a new Visio add-in for System Center Operations Manager! Go get it on the Connect Site ! The Visio Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 combines the strengths of...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Release Candidate available !
Yesterday, Microsoft released the OpsMgr R2 RC on their connect website. It's version 6.1.7043.0 and is 1.277,26 MB in size ! As a separate download, you can also get the R2 RC documentation set. The...
Biwug & Scug Session: Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment
Title: Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment. System Center Operations Manager 2007 is THE end to end Monitoring Solution. In this session we will discuss what you...
Windows Server Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
Overview The Windows Server Failover Cluster Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of your Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 cluster deployments. It monitors Cluster...
RMS grayed out and server discovery failed
After I installed my RMS and OpsmgrDB on two different servers my root management server went gray and every 10 minutes or so I receive an alert stating the RMS is unavailable. Usually these close within...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Management Pack for Opsmgr 2007
Finally the SCVMM MP for Opsmgr 2007 with REPORTS is released!! Brief Description The System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 monitors...
Opsmgr Service Level Dashboard for Exchange 2007
It is possible to create custom reports for Exchange 2007 using the Service Level Dashboard Solution Accelerator and the Exchange 2007 Management Pack. The Opsmgr Team made a nice guide on how to make...
MVP Award: System Center Operations Manager
I'm very proud to announce that Microsoft has awarded me with the MVP title "System Center Operations Manager" !! We now have 2 MVP's in the user group! https://mvp.support.microsoft...
The SQL Server Service Broker for the current Opsmgr database is not enabled
Yesterday I came accros this error: Saying that the SQL server Service Broker or database mirroring endpoint is disabled or not configured. If you don’t know what the SQL server service broker exactly...
Opsmgr 2007 R2 Beta1 Released!
Just got an email from Microsoft to announce that the Opsmgr 2007 R2 Beta available is on the connect site. Will post testing results soon!   The System Center Operations Manager team is excited to...
Network aware service management with EMC Smart and Opsmgr
Stefan Stranger found an interesting video on network aware service management with the integration solution of emc smart and opsmgr.   After this video I was looking for some more information and...
Day 2 of teched 2008 Barcelona
At day 2 one of the sessions I followed covered the future of opsmgr. They announced that at the end of this month the beta of Opsmgr R2 will be available, RC is for Q1 of 2009 and RTM in Q2 2009. For...
First day at teched Barcelona
I'm now at teched Barcelona and my first impressions? WOOOOW! Everything is very well organized, free wifi, everything is taken care off you even get free metro tickets! I arrived Sunday morning and...
Define a Health Criteria for your web application Monitor Part III
W're almost at the end! :-) Only 3 steps left. First we have to define a healt criteria for our web appliction and after that we can create our distributed appliction that will drive ou service level...
Configuring the Service Level Dashboard Part V
After you create your monitors and distributed applications, you must take some additional steps to configure the Service Level Dashboard group and service level goal properties. Discovery finds all the...
Creating the Distributed Application Models to Drive the Service Level Dashboard Part IV
The distributed application model interface provides a flexible way to customize the Service Level Dashboard display to your needs. The Service Level Dashboard accepts a simple distributed application...
Service Level Dashboard Part VI
Ok, so we finally have our service level dashboard. Let's see some reports service level dashboard Service level dashboard by application: " src="http://scug.be/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer...
Add a recording to an existing Web Application object Part II
First you will have to create a web application monitor. See my previous post on how to create a web application monitor in opsmgr.   To add a recording to an existing Web Application object 1. Open...
Create a Web Application Monitor in opsmgr Part I
At the moment I'm testing web application monitoring, service level dashboard, etc. So the upcoming posts will handle on how to set up a web application monitoring, how to configure the service level...
Security Auditing & ACS Optimization Session recording
On September 16th we got a session on Security Auditing & ACS Optimization by Jeremiah Beckett from Securevantage . Jeremiah has recorded the session for us so that you can watch it. It’s condensed...
Changing the ACS DataRetention Period for Opsmgr
Changing the Audit Collection Service DataRetention Period (based on the info found on the technet site) Operations Manager grooms, or removes, data from its various databases at regular configurable intervals...
Operations Manager/SSAS and PerformancePoint Scorecards
Daniel Savage posted on the team blog that the performancePoint team released a sample solution that shows how to build cubes from the Operations Manager DW and then build balanced IT scorecards using...
Configuration of Opsmgr Exchange 2007 management pack
Here are some guidelines if you want to import the Exchange 2007 management pack in your scom environment: Requirements This Management Pack requires the Operations Manager 2007 updates specified in Knowledge...
ACS noise filter
When you install ACS you will get a ton of events! Not all events are relevant for your environment. Securevantage has written a nice noisefilter guide. This guide introduces noise filters for Windows...
How to Deploy Operations Manager 2007 ACS Reporting
Audit Collection Services (ACS) reporting can be installed in two configurations. A Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SRS) SP1 or SP2 instance with Operations Manager Reporting already installed...
Installing Audit Collection Services ( ACS )
I'm going to make some procedures for ACS. First I'm going to install the audit collection services, after that I'm going to deploy the ACS reporting and last but not least enable the acs forwarding...
Microsoft.interop.security.azroles.dll error when installing opsmgr
Yesterday I wanted to install my second management server on a windows 2003 R2 SP2 machine. I installed all the requirements and ran the prerequisite checker. I was really astonished! It was the first...
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