Tips and Tricks: OpsMgr 2012: Exchange 2010 MP (version 14.03.0038.003) – What to do if you see Quarantined Mailboxes due to the Exchange MP

With the previous version of the Exchange 2010 MP (14.03.0038.003) there was a known Issue with Mailboxes entering into a Quarantined State.  I have posted some details below to help you identify Mailboxes that were Quarantined, Backup and Remove the Overrides and Reference Overrides, then remove the mailbox from Quarantine.   Event 10018 in the…

Tips and Tricks: SQL Prerequisites for Initial Installation not working OpsMgr or ServiceMgr 2012 (Cannot connect to WMI provider – Invalid class [0x80041010])

Update: The fix below works for Operations Manager and Service Manager Installations If you have run into issues during setup where you know that you have a supported version of SQL running on your machine but setup in unable to detect it, you may have hit a SQL WMI provider issue. In OpsMgr 2007 R2,…

SharePoint 2010 MP for OpsMgr – Test and Production Multiple DB Instance Tuning for Configuration Databases

  I came across an environment where there were multiple SharePoint environments.  These SharePoint environments were split into Test and Production, and held Configuration Databases on a separate Database Instance, per Best Practice. In order to tune the DB Connection you need to tune the Alert by creating Overrides for each environment.  I outline this…