Great video from Vlad Joanovic talking about vNext Link About: Vlad steps by our hallway studio to talk about the Beta version for OpsMgr v.Next. He informs us about new…

  I frequently help customers install or rebuild their SCOM environment.  I find it difficult to remember every feature and sub feature required for the web console.  The SCOM documentation…

  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=61365290-3c38-4004-b717-e90bb0f6c148&displaylang=en   Changes in This Update Version 6.1.7695.0 of the Operations Manager Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2 includes the following changes: Added the “Agents by Health State”…

For SCOM 2012 please see my maintenance mode scheduling tool.  https://www.scom2k7.com/scom-2012-maintenance-mode-scheduler/   I have updated the scripts for SCOM Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler 2.0 to properly support SCOM R2. Download:…

You might have noticed that the SCCM Reporting Dashboard was released.  But what most of you don’t know is that you can use the dashboard for SCOM data.  The cool thing…

Are you getting this error when trying to install reporting?    Here are the steps to resolve it. 1.  Check to User Permissions. -  Verify the user you are running…

With the arrival of Windows Server 2008 R2 it seems that more administrators are keeping UAC enabled.  I ran into an issue where I installed the certs for a gateway server and…

After installing the scom agent on a Red Hat 5.3  server and importing the management packs I started getting a bunch of  Secure Reference Override Alerts in my ops manager…

If you try to delete a distributed application you may get an error like this. Application: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Application Version: 6.1.7221.0 Severity: Error Message: : Verification failed…

Our SQL Team doesn’t want to manage SQL Express installations. Typically SQL Express is used for Dev/Test and they don’t want to be alerted on these databases. Turns out there…