Category: SCOM

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…

I ran into an issue where I needed to count the number of xml files in a directory.  The problem was there are 10,000 other files in the directory.  The…

From http://www.expta.com/2009/06/windows-server-2008-r2-service-pack.html You may have known that Windows Server 2008 RTM shipped as Service Pack 1. This is because the Windows Server 2008 code base is shared by Windows Vista, and…

Today I took the 70-400 Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring and passed with a 980. I was shooting for a 1000 and fell one question short.

* This event was Recorded on Thursday, April 30, 2009. * http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032409727&CountryCode=US Agenda – Deployment and Performance Best Practices – High Availability and Disaster recovery Best Practices – Virtualization Best…