OpsMgr, Filegroup is Full, MSDE

My friend JC and I ran into a situation recently where OpsMgr 2007 R2 started alerting us that: “Could not allocate space for object in database because the filegroup is full” Normally this means that the database is not set auto-grow or that the drive where the filegroup exists is full. These situations are fixed…

Agents are grey but there no Error Messages

Recently I was working through activating AD Integration in a remote forest. If you are planning on doing this I highly recommend that you read this in detail (http://www.systemcenterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/ADIntegration_final.pdf) and if you have access check out Pete Zerger’s session on how to get AD Integration working in a untrusted forest (both at MMS and TechEd…

Windows IT Professional Magazine: Top 5 Extensions for OpsMgr

Windows IT Pro just published my article with them which is now online at: http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/101719/top-5-extensions-for-opsmgr.html The topic is: Top 5 Extensions for OpsMgr (Managing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 smarter, faster, easier). This is my first article that I have published with Windows IT Professional, so I would really like to thank Windows IT…

OpsMgr R2 RC, Process Monitoring, Conference Rooms

A while back we built out some conference room kiosk’s (discussed at http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1509.entry) which display the status of a conference room using an Outlook Web Access calendar. We have run into issues where the connection to the OWA server would be lost and/or when other issues would occur which would cause these to stop functioning.…