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We have had some customers ask us if there is a way to remove an agent managed computer using PowerShell from OpsMgr 2007 after the agent managed computer has been turned off. The scenario is that the machine that has an agent installed on it gets de...
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A few of us have been working with the Solutions Accelerator team and Pete Zerger to come up with an Infrastructure Planning Guide for OpsMgr 2007 which got published a couple of weeks ago . This document will lead readers through a sequence of core decision...
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Hi all - An additional resource for Operations Manager 2007 MP Authors and IT Pro's is now live at OpsManJam . This site, sponsored by Microsoft, focuses on MP Authoring best practices and tutorials. There is deployment and administration content...
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Recently I got some emails requesting for a ACS DB sizing calculator similar to what I had published for the OpsMgr Database and Data warehouse. While I was unable to put one for the ACS DB I did find that a couple of months ago Pete Zerger one of the...
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The performance team had a thread discussing IOPS requirement with a customer who had some really good questions so and I thought I would share the thread with you all. For sizing the Operations Manager Database and Data warehouse I would highly recommend...
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Watch the attached video on how to cluster a Root Management Server and promote a Management Server to take the role of a Root Management Server . Starr and Myself did a talk at MMS 2008 in Las Vegas on how to build a resilient Operations Manager 2007...
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The Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 Security Hardening Guide is designed to provide you with essential information about how to further protect, or harden, your Operations Manager 2007 environment in conjunction with the Security Configuration Wizard...
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Task Status has two states Success or Fail, the way this is mapped from the 4 states that the module can return is that only Fatal Errors result in Failed tasks. Since this module is used in both rules and tasks and in the rule case we do not want to...
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The OpsMgr team is working with the Windows team on getting the necessary hotfixes ready for release. Links for these hotfixes will be available on the KB article that will be published end of this month. Here is a heads up on what we are tentatively...
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Last week the Operations Manager team attended the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 in Las Vegas and one of the big questions we got from almost all customers was when is the System Center Capacity tool going to be available? I glad to announce that the...
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Most MPs have one or more scripts which are used for a variety of things, discovery state monitoring, perf data creation, etc… In a lot of cases the majority of the script code is common to all the scripts in the MP, logging, connecting to a particular...
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OpsMgr 2007 Hardware Guidance (What hardware do I buy?) Many of you have been waiting for the System Center Capacity Planner tool to be released and that should be available very shortly. Until then I have put together an excel sheet with some basic hardware...
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This is one of my favorite features/roles in OpsMgr 2007. When I refer to the Gateway Server I am referring to role in OpsMgr which can be used to monitor un-trusted domains/DMZs and not the spotted cow company that builds servers. If you are not leveraging...
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Anatomy of a Vista/Server 2008 event There are three types of Vista/Server 2008 events which are written to various channels in the event log. 1. The ‘pure’ Vista/Server 2008 event These events are logged using the new Vista/Server 2008 APIs which means...
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What level of privileges are required to install the product? Someone recently asked a question regarding what level of privileges are required to install the product and later they asked me why the accounts had to be what they were. I thought I would...
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The question has recently come up, what about password expiration used for Run As Account (and action account) credentials? If you are using Local System, there is no password to expire. If you specified a domain account, we have you covered (for the...
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A lot of good stuff is going on in Seattle these days, Seahawks have made it to the playoffs, we have actually been seeing some sunshine in month of January and Windows Server 2008 aka Longhorn is picking up a lot of good buzz at least that’s what I hear...
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Many people on MOMTech and other discussion groups have asked about the OpsMgr 2007 supported cluster configurations and I hope this blog clarifies what we support and do not support. This list of supported cluster configurations will be updated in the...
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Network Bandwidth Utilization for the various OpsMgr 2007 Roles I recently started owning performance and scale for OpsMgr and it is definitely one of the most interesting and challenging areas I have ever worked on. I know the first question that is...
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I have attached the OpsMgr 2007 Database and Data Warehouse excel calculator I have been using the last couple of months to calculate what I think the size of customers databases would be. This tool is put together based on data we got from MSIT DB and...
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In the last couple of years, virtualization technology has become the “hot thing” in the IT management space because it is seen as reducing overall IT costs which is every CTO’s dream. And the fact that you create backups of your environments is a life...
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I know we still haven't offically published any disaster recovery documentation but I hope the attached document gives you an idea of how you can recover from an Root Management Server on a cluster disaster scenario. We hope to have this offically published...
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One of the common misconceptions about recording browser sessions is that the recording completely matches the user experience. It actually only captures pieces of it. As I write this post, I'm listening to Halos and Horns on my new Zune. Suppose I'm...
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Hi all, I have just put the finishing touches on the Operations Manager 2007 Design Guide. It should be available on the public download site in the next 24 -48 hours. (available here) I know that there has been great demand for this guide so extra care...
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A great idea doesn’t equal a great best practice, even when it’s always applicable. Explore all sides of an issue before making the determination on which solution is best, here’s an example. Opportunity to improve A quality email subject improves the...
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