After upgrading to Windows 7, it was time to build a new All-In-One environment where we can work with Operations Manager 2007 R2. We previously blogged on this, but the previous posting was written for an older host operating system and older guest operating system. There were some interesting gotcha’s that are included as we…
I received an email from a co-worker of mine who is seeing domain controllers which have high levels of processor utilization when the Operations Manager agent is running on a domain controller. I have seen this occasionally in different environments and for different reasons. The following is a summary of conditions which I…
During some recent tests with creating my own self tuning threshold I found out that once you create the self tuning threshold you cannot change the settings for the sensitivity via the gui. You can still use overrides which alter the sensitivity but the slider bar shown below is grayed out after the monitor was…
For those who haven’t already picked this up from my earlier post about using technology to go back to basics I am into being frugal and especially into how to use technology to actually live a more frugal life. I’m a huge advocate of the Dave Ramsey approach to finances for my household and as…
An updated version for the ReSearch This management pack has been created for the R2 version of the management pack and has been updated to work for MOM 2005 as well. There had been issues with this management pack and how it integrated with the new systemcentercentral.com website which should be addressed with the updated…
One of the things that I’ve learned in the last few years is that there isn’t anyone I have met who does not know more than I do about at least one thing. The topic itself may vary (technology, life, marriage, spirituality, politics or even identifying what ran into my car most recently) but in…
I have to start this with saying that maybe I’m just old and not keeping up with technology/that’s certainly possible but this struck me as pretty cool. As a reader I’m familiar with most of the different ebook readers out there (including the Kindle, Barnes & Noble eReader, iPad, etc). Personally, I’m too cheap to…
If you have servers in your environment which appear as “Not Monitored” in the Agent Managed section of the Operations Manager/Administration console you may want to check this out. We found that agents which had been installed with the wrong Management Group Name appear as “Not Monitored” in the Agent Managed section. In our case…
Recently I was working in an environment where the root management server for the Forefront environment would regularly restart the health service. At first I figured it was one of the RMS thresholds (private bytes or some such thing – see the end of this article for great link from Kevin Holman). However, this debug…
In Operations Manager 2007 R2, one of the most common alerts that I am running into is the “SQL job failed to complete successfully” alert which is part of the SQL server management pack. In one of our environments, the request was made to provide an alert if this issue occurred for a specific job…
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