I decided I needed to re-install my lab environment.  I wanted to keep all of the firewalls on during the install process and only open the ports that are…

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg508710.aspx Covers the following: Custom Reporting Overview Setting Up the Environment Creating Custom Reports Data Warehouse Schema Inside a Generic Report Custom Report Queries

There is a new area on the Operations Manager connect site specifically for reporting management pack bugs. https://connect.microsoft.com/OpsMgr/feedback/CreateFeedback.aspx This will get your bug directed to the right people on the…

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…