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Microsoft just released Cumulative update 2 for the Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors. We now support: HP Operations Manager for UNIX v9 running on HPUX 11i v3 Itanium Solaris 10 SPARC Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 x64 BMC Remedy AR System 7.5 and some bug fixes as well: Potential high...
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Microsoft released the Service Manager 2010 Management Pack. The Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 Management Pack helps you manage your Service Manager infrastructure by monitoring the health of the Service Manager management servers and services. Features : Capturing critical events from...
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Microsoft released a week ago the 3 rd quarterly update for the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack. You can download it from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=61365290-3c38-4004-b717-e90bb0f6c148&displaylang=en The localization issue with the...
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Community Day is back with the Fourth Edition of this annual community event on Microsoft technologies! Fourteen Microsoft User Groups combine their efforts to organize this unique networking and knowledge sharing event. With so many new releases from Microsoft, the theme of Community Day 2010 is of...
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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 to achieve: System Center Virtual Machine Manager · Service lifecycle management, including...
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05-13-2010
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Filed under: scom, opsmgr, opsmgr R2, Opsmgr V10, SCVMM, Opmsgr 2007 R2, SCSM, SCCM, virtual, Opalis, v.Next, opsmgr v.next
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Today I ran into the following problem: I was unable to access diagram views from the webconsole. Every other view like a state view, performance view, alert view etc was working but not the diagram view: Likely this is due to missing permissions on the server allow the creation of the RenderBase and...
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Microsoft just released a new hotfix to deal with ghost agents or agent that are grayed out for an unknown reason. Sometimes it can happen that an agent unexpectedly appear as unavailable without any real reason. We call this ghost agents The workaround was to delete the health service state directory...
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High Level overview steps: 1. Root Management Server 2. Manual update of the Operations Manager database together with the included stored procedure file that is discussed later 3. Manual import of the Management Pack library that is discussed later 4. Secondary Management Servers 5. Gateway Servers...
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Microsoft has just released a second cumulative update for opsmgr! More information can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979257 Make sure to download the correct language: SystemCenterOperationsManager2007-R2CU2-KB979257-X86-X64-IA64-ENU.MSI Have fun, Alexandre Verkinderen
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Hi all, The Belgium System Center User Group is pleased to announce his first Best of MMS! This is a full day online event as well as offline with all the Belgium System Center Experts. So if you cannot make it to Microsoft Belgium due to some Volcano’s you can attend via LiveMeeting as well! Best...
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04-27-2010
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Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, Essentials, General, Events, opsmgr, opsmgr R2, MVP, SCVMM, community, RTM, Opmsgr 2007 R2, SCSM, SCCM, Opalis
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After the config mgr SuperFlows we now have the OpsMgr 2007 Superflows! The Operator Basics SuperFlow is intended for operators who are new to Operations Manager 2007.This SuperFlow is written for the operator in a Tier I role. The information is useful for a new operator who is in an extended role,...
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Finally, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed can now be preordered on Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/OpsMgrR2Unleashed . The list price is $39.99, Amazon price is $27.57, and Amazon has availability April 26. Here is the table of contents: Chapter 1 - Introduction and What's New...
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Quest has announced that the QMX VMware extension is now free via vCenter and vSphere. The Quest Management Extensions (QMX) - Operations Manager 2007 Edition VMware solution supports all versions of VMware. You can download it from here http://www.management-extensions.org/entry.jspa?externalID=100338&categoryID...
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Hi all, I am very proud to be able to announce that we will be able to host a Unique OpsMgr 2007 R2 training event in Belgium. Is the average training not meeting the depth of technical content you need? Would you like the receive your training from someone that received the prestigious MVP Award? Wished...
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Our first cumulative update has released for OpsMgr 2007 R2! Cumulative Update 1 contains a number of fixes for the Operations Manager 2007 R2 release. More information about what has been fixed can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974144 . And as always RTFM! You will need to perform...
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Microsoft is conducting a survey about Management Pack Authoring. If you ever wanted to give feedback about the management pack authoring process now is the time! You can find the survey here http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mpauthoring Thanks, Alexandre Verkinderen
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Description Join us for this informative session on the new features of OpsMgr 2007 R2., where you will learn about the differences between OpsMgr 2007 and OpsMgr 2007 R2 like support for cross-platform, management packs-, agent-, reporting improvements. Slidedeck http://scug.be/media/p/1453.aspx Dutch...
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Today the System Center Team announced the new capabilities and price changes of the Server Management Suite Enterprise (SMSE) and Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD) licenses. You can read the whole article here . Now with the SMSE and SMSD you will also get: System Center Service Manager...
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This week I had to implement an APC management pack at a customer site and I will explain how to get it working. This customer is using APC to monitor and configure his Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) infrastructure. “ The APC InfraStruXure (ISX) Central is a network appliance that collects...
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Hi, Novell just announced two new additions to the Novell Linux Management Pack or NLMP family: SLES 11 and RHEL 5.x. The Novell Linux Management Packs for OpsMgr expands the monitoring capabilities of Operations Manager by enabling monitoring of key Linux services that are not monitored now with...
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Today I ran into some Linux agent deployment issues. I needed to monitor about 20 Redhat Machines . In such an environment environment, Kerberos authentication is not possible. Therefore, certificates are used between the management server and the UNIX-based or Linux-based computers. First if you have...
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Be aware that there is a bug when you want to create an override on the resource group rollup monitor to change the maintenance mode behavior! Let’s see: In my example I have one cluster with 2 cluster nodes. I needed to do some maintenance on my nodes and they needed to be rebooted. So I put one...
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Just a little reminder that if you install the OpsMgr web console after the UI console has already been installed you will need to Copy the following files from the %Program Files%\System Center Operations Manager 2007 directory to the %Program Files%\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Web Console...
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Dutch: Wat is er nieuw in System Center Operations Manager R2? (17 december) Neem deel aan deze infosessie over de nieuwe features van OpsMgr 2007 R2, waarin we dieper ingaan op de verschillen tussen OpsMgr 2007 en OpsMgr 2007 R2. Thema’s die we in deze sessie bespreken: o Cross-platform o Verbeteringen...
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Hi All, I will be teaching the MOC50028 “Installing and configuring OpsMgr 2007” from 23 November until 27 November at RealDolmen in Belgium. Would you like the receive your training from someone that received the prestigious MVP Award? Wished you could receive training from someone that co-authored...
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Microsoft just released the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Resource kit. You can download it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9104af8b-ff87-45a1-81cd-b73e6f6b51f0&displaylang=en Feature Summary The System Center Operation Manager 2007 Authoring Resource Kit provides the following...
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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 environment at the moment, for OpsMgr environment prior to R2 you will need to wait a couple of weeks...
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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 from AZ Sint Maarten, who explains why they need a monitoring solution and why they chose for SCOM...
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09-30-2009
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Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, Management Pack, scom, opsmgr, opsmgr R2, MVP, community, Opmsgr 2007 R2, Interview, Technet, savision
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Hello OM Community, Today we launched a new connect portal that will allow YOU to provide feedback to the OM team as well as participate in surveys that have been traditionally reserved for our TAP programs. All you need to do is be registered on connect and you'll be able to participate. Check it...
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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? Would you like the receive your training from someone that received the prestigious MVP Award? Wished...
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09-22-2009
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Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, General, Events, scom, opsmgr, reporting, end to end monitoring, teched, opsmgr R2, MVP, Opmsgr 2007 R2, realdolmen, Infront Consulting, training
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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 of Microsoft to only dispplay the size in Bytes. You will need to persononalize the logical...
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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 of the mp AND you will also need to run a sql Clean up query to delete the previous KMS tables,...
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09-18-2009
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Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, Issue, Management Pack, scom, opsmgr, opsmgr R2, Windows 2008, Opmsgr 2007 R2, Opsmgr DB, Database, KMS
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Savision has just released a major now version of Live Maps designed specifically for System Center Operations Manager R2! You can download it here http://savision.com/download Besides some issues fixes they also release a bunch of very cool features: Release Component New feature 4.0.0 All List and...
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After upgrading your OpsMgr 2007 components and upgrading your SQL environment to SQL Server 2008, you will need to run some post installation steps. These post installation steps are only needed if you have done an upgrade from OpsMgr 2007 to OpsMgr 2007 R2. OpsMgr 2007 SP 1 had an issue with the localized...
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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 of the report and on the second page I got the rest of my report. Very ugly………...
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Early this week Dell released a major update to their OpsMgr management pack with their 4.0 version. I strongly encourage you to check out this MP as there are some significant improvements that are worth checking out. http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?releaseid=R237719 Feature...
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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. First he will explain the architecture of Service Manager after which he will deep-dive into...
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Kim Oppalfens and I did a session at community day together: Setting up & Configuring SQL Server to support your SCCM & SCOM environment System Center Configuration Manager and Operations Manager both need SQL Server. In this session we will show you what the best practices are for having a smooth...
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07-04-2009
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Filed under: Events, opsmgr, sql, opsmgr R2, community, community day, KB, Opmsgr 2007 R2, Grooming, Opsmgr DB, Opsmgr Console, SCCM, Performance
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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: One-time License Grant of System Center Server Management Suite Datacenter (SMSD) to License Holders...
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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: better discovery a controller processor monitor and a report You can get the HP EVA performance...
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Microsoft just published a known issue with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007. We’ve seen a couple issues with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 that we just released and found that the...
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Microsoft released a Operations Manager 2007 R2 SCW Roles and Hardening guide help protect and harden your Operations Manager 2007 R2 environment. The Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 R2 Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2008 is designed to provide you with essential information about how...
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Alain Côté has written his own HP EVA management pack! This Management pack will monitor the performance of an HP EVA, the official HP Storage MP only does alerting. This Management pack is based on the evaperf.exe command and has several collection rules, diagnostic task and one monitor...
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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 of synthetic transactions ensure the Exchange servers are available and responding in a timely manner...
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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. The first thing you should do is to configure the antivirus exclusions for opsmgr. Have a look at Kevin...
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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 management servers is collected. This mean you will need to create a new collection performance rule...
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FYi Components of Server Management Suite Enterprise Enterprise server management licences<Server MLs> for · System Center Operations Manager 2007, · System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, · System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 · System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 · And...
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06-06-2009
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Filed under: Data Protection Manager 2007, scom, opsmgr, opsmgr R2, dpm, SCVMM, Opmsgr 2007 R2, SMSD, Licensing, SCCM, SMSE, virtual
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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 what you, as SharePoint guys, find relevant to be monitored. System Center Operations Manager uses...
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06-05-2009
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Filed under: Events, System Center Remote Operations Manager 2007, Management Pack, scom, opsmgr, service level dashboard, opsmgr R2, Biwug, Moss, Sharepoint, Opmsgr 2007 R2
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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
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06-05-2009
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Filed under: Operations Manager 2007, General, Events, scom, opsmgr R2, techdays, Opmsgr 2007 R2, Interview, Nigel Cain, Service Manager, SCSM
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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 Message: Database creation failed. The database might have been incompletly created or modified. System...