SCOM 2012 has some nice new dashboards.   The average IT user or application owner often doesn’t want to learn the SCOM console.  They just want to know that state…

The OpsMgr 2012 Sizing Helper is an interactive document designed to assist you with planning & sizing deployments of System Center 2012 Operations Manager. It helps you plan the correct…

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=21357   The March 2012 revision of the Monitoring Pack for Active Directory includes the following changes: Corrected some Publisher names (for example, changed from PublisherName=KDC to PublisherName=Microsoft-Windows-Kerberos-Key-Distribution-Center) Updated rules…

  Looking at the logs I see this   [10:30:32]:           Info:      :GetSqlVersion: Collecting SQL Instance information for vscomsql1 [10:30:34]:           Error:     :GetSqlVersion(): Threw Exception.Type: System.Management.ManagementException, Exception Error Code: 0x80131501, Exception.Message: Invalid…

System Center Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate is now available for download here.  http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27974 It’s got a slick new look.  Check it out!

  *Note prerequisites may change when SCOM 2012 RTMs I need the Web Server (IIS) role with the follow server role services:  According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh205990.aspx#BKMK_RBF_WebConsole Static Content Default Document Directory…

  MP2XMLPRO is a GUI based tool I created to export MP files to XML. Currently you can do this with Boris’s PowerShell script or the MPDumper tool.  I only…

  There have been a few scripts and programs for doing this in the community but none were officially supported.  Now we finally have a supported method! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2626670

Russ Slaten is an MP authoring expert and that created a custom URL monitoring solution.  This is my favorite solution as it addresses one of the most common issues that…

The Bulk URL Editor was introduced in SCOM 2007 R2.  I don’t often see this tool used as most customers don’t even know it exists or don’t understand the benefits…