I have worked with a few customers that are annoyed with the user configuration required to use the new Silverlight SCOM web console.  The web console is often used…

  I ran across this issue when installing SCOM 2012.  This issue was occurring when it got to the step where it was trying to install the management server and…

  Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9296 Changes in This Update Unless explicitly noted, these updates apply to all operating system versions supported by this Monitoring Pack: Updated the Cluster shared volume disk monitors…

  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…