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I wanted to share with everyone a few of my experiences with working in the Service Provider space with Operations Manager 2007 in a series of blog posts, starting with part 1 on advanced architecture, I hope you find it useful: Operations Manager 2007 introduces a number of key features for supporting...

Hey Folks, I wanted to give you a heads up on an issue I ran into today with OpsMgr R2 and AEM. I have been setting up OpsMgr today as part of a Client Monitoring project for a large customer, the engineer I am working with is not a domain admin but is a local admin on the OpsMgr boxes. After installing...

Hey Folks, The OpsMgr Community Team are trying out the forums experience for Cross Platform and Interop for OpsMgr 2007 R2, as a change to the standard newsgroup format. Please let them know direct what you think about them and how your experience goes. You can file your direct feedback...

Sorry to steal a title from a very well known OpsMgr book, but I can think of no better way to describe the new R2 beta release of everyones favourite monitoring tool. I have just returned from the R2 TAP summit for Microsoft's latest revision of Operations Manager and I have to say that this...

I have to admit that personally this has been one of the most eagerly anticipated Management Pack releases for some time, not only because OCS is probably THE Hottest technologies coming out of Microsoft at the moment but also because the OCS team gained a couple of true Rock stars from the OpsMgr product...

I have been busy doing a fair number of ACS Installs recently and thought I would put together a step by step guide for reference purposes as the information to do this end to end is not in the same place in the guides which can lead to missed steps ACS Database and Collector Server Install 1....

I quite often have to carry out a split install of SRS for my OpsMgr deployments, this is normally down to the fact that most SQL admins wont allow IIS to be installed on their SQL boxes. In these situations I typically have a large database server with the Ops and sometimes Datawarehouse DB's...

A big post SP1 hotfix rollup has now been released which fixes the following problems that have been identified with a number of System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 management packs: · Unable to discover CSDVersion on Windows Vista machines · Unable to discover operating...

If you are seeing the following error in your OpsMgr sp1 event log on some servers where the DELL MP is running? Event Type: Error Event Source: HealthService Event Category: Health Service Event ID: 4000 Date: 4/22/2008 Time: 1:32:13PM User: N/A Computer: OPSMGRSRV1 Description...

Hi Folks, I just wanted to let you know that I will be delivering a System Center Operations Manager 2007 Training Course in London, July 1-4th 2008 where I will be sharing some of my many experiences in architecting, installing, configuring and troubleshooting the product. The training is structured...

For anyone out there in the community who will be attending MMS in Vegas, dont forget to check my session out, I will be doing a very special talk around some of the work I have been doing with my OpsMgr customers in the area of SLA Scorecarding. This has been a growing request amongst the businesses...