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• Infrastructure Planning Guide for OpsMgr 2007 SP1

  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... Posted Aug 12 2008, 06:30 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: news, Tips, Setup, Deployment, Administration, Documentation, Best Practices

• Audit Collection (ACS) Database and Disk Sizing Calculator for OpsMgr 2007

  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... Posted Jul 02 2008, 01:13 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: news, Tips, Setup, Deployment, upgrade, Administration, Documentation, Best Practices

• Performance IOPS for the DB and DW in OpsMgr 2007

  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... Posted Jun 24 2008, 11:27 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, troubleshooting, Deployment, Administration, Documentation, Best Practices

• Bad Situation-Good Results: OpsMgr 2007 High Availability and Disaster Recovery

  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... Posted May 27 2008, 04:57 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: news, Tips, Setup, troubleshooting, Deployment, Documentation, Best Practices

• Troubleshooting Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) and Desktop Error Monitoring (DEM) features

  Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) of System Center Operations Manager and System Center Desktop Error Monitoring (DEM) are identical features with the only difference being that AEM is shipped with Operations Manager 2007 and DEM is shipped with Microsoft... Posted May 23 2008, 11:33 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, troubleshooting, Deployment, Documentation, Client Monitoring

• Secondary Management Server install fails if Reporting is already installed with DW action account and RMS action account are the same

  Issue: If you try to install a secondary Management Server (MS) in a scenario with Root Management Server(RMS) and Reporting installed with Data Warehouse(DW) action account and Root Management Server action account (default action account) is the same... Posted May 13 2008, 04:00 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, troubleshooting, Deployment, Documentation, Reporting

• OpsMgr 2007 with SP1 Support for Windows Server 2008 update!

  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... Posted May 07 2008, 04:52 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment, Documentation, Best Practices, Management Packs

• OpsMgr 2007 Capacity Planner Tool (Final Version)

  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... Posted May 05 2008, 02:55 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment, upgrade, Documentation, Best Practices

• OpsMgr 2007 Hardware Guidance (What hardware do I buy?)

  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... Posted Apr 10 2008, 03:54 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: news, Tips, Setup, Deployment, Documentation, Best Practices

• 10 Reasons to use a Gateway Server

  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... Posted Feb 19 2008, 03:19 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment, Documentation, Best Practices

• Answering some common deployment questions (Part 1)

  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... Posted Jan 22 2008, 02:27 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, troubleshooting, Deployment, Documentation, Best Practices

• Support plans for OpsMgr 2007, SCE and MOM 2005 running on Windows Server 2008

  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... Posted Jan 09 2008, 03:19 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment, Documentation, Best Practices

• Understanding how Active Directory integration feature works in OpsMgr 2007

  Happy New Year!!! One of my colleagues had shared with me some detailed information on how Active Directory (AD) integration works (in particular how the service connection points (SCP) are created) and I thought it would be a good blog post for this... Posted Jan 02 2008, 02:26 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment, Documentation

• Steps to install OpsMgr 2007 DB and Reporting on Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn)

  If you are like me and just itching to try and install OpsMgr 2007 DB and Reporting on Longhorn and cannot wait till SQL 2008 to install SQL on Longhorn as they do not support SQL 2005 on Longhorn you can try my HACK!! Yes, this is NOT supported by the... Posted Dec 17 2007, 01:00 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, troubleshooting, Deployment

• OpsMgr 2007 command line parameters (Complete List)

  Below is the complete list of all the command line parameters for OpsMgr 2007 server roles including Audit Collection. Agent – (MOMAgent.msi) msiexec.exe /i \\path\Directory\MOMAgent.msi /qn /l*v \logs\MOMAgent_install.log USE_SETTINGS_FROM_AD=0 MANAGEMENT_GROUP... Posted Dec 05 2007, 04:11 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment

• Supported Cluster Configurations for OpsMgr 2007

  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... Posted Nov 30 2007, 02:04 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment, Documentation, Best Practices

• Remote Agent Prerequisite Checker Tool For OpsMgr 2007

  With a help of one of my colleagues we have put together a remote agent prerequisite checker tool for OpsMgr 2007. This tool is the command line version of the MOMNetCheck tool we shipped with MOM 2005 resource kit. The new tool allows you to specify... Posted Nov 19 2007, 08:39 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: news, Tips, Setup, troubleshooting, Deployment, Documentation

• Event, Alerts, Perf Data Flow in OpsMgr 2007

  A couple of people asked me questions on how data flowed in OpsMgr 2007 this weekend so I thought this would be a good topic for this week’s blog. Unfortunately this is not documented anywhere. Data Type Flow: Events/Perf/State data is sent from OpsMgr... Posted Oct 30 2007, 02:15 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment, Documentation

• Network Bandwidth Utilization for the various OpsMgr 2007 Roles

  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... Posted Oct 22 2007, 03:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment, Documentation, Best Practices

• OpsMgr 2007 Database and Data Warehouse Size Calculator

  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... Posted Oct 15 2007, 04:51 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, troubleshooting, Deployment, Documentation, Best Practices

• Virtualizing OpsMgr 2007 Roles

  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... Posted Oct 02 2007, 01:58 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment, Best Practices

• Low-bandwidth Scenarios

  We have received a couple of customer inquires regarding the use of Operations Manger 2007 in a low-bandwidth scenario. These issues deal with a situation where the Management Server in one site (Site A) is separated from its agents in another site (Site... Posted Aug 31 2007, 05:48 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, upgrade, Administration, and Deployment

• If you install OpsMgr 2007 Reporting and then install secondary MS then it will not be able to write DW data as profiles are not created

  I just realized that we had not created a KB article for this issue so I thought I would blog about this issue while the KB article is in the process of being published. Issue: If you install reporting and then install a secondary MS then it will not... Posted Aug 29 2007, 03:59 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, troubleshooting, Deployment, Tricks, Documentation, and Deployment, and Best Practices, Reporting

• Re-Promote Clustered Root Management Server

  Scenario: The clustered Root Management Server goes down you need to promote another Management Server in the Management Group to become the Root Management Server and when the cluster comes back online you can re-promote the cluster. This was a disaster... Posted Aug 13 2007, 01:55 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, Deployment, upgrade, Tricks, Documentation, and Deployment, and Best Practices

• Disaster Recovery: OpsMgr 2007 Root Management Server on a Cluster

  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... Posted Jul 24 2007, 01:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tips, Setup, troubleshooting, Deployment, upgrade, Tricks, Documentation, Best Practices, and Deployment, and Best Practices