David Allen - OpsMgr MVP

System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2 RC Released

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (VMM) is a comprehensive management solution for the virtualized data center, enabling increased physical server utilization, centralized management of virtual machine infrastructure, and rapid provisioning...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2009 4:04 PM by David Allen MVP

Filed under: VMM R2

Creating DPM PowerShell Tasks in Operations Manager

Performing general administrative DPM tasks can be quite time consuming so why not get Operations Manager to do them for you. As with most new products coming out of Microsoft, any administrative task (and generally a lot more) can be scripted in PowerShell...

Published Thu, Jun 04 2009 1:00 AM by Articles - Podcasts powered by Odiogo

QFE Required for Windows Server 2008 Cluster Support - Released

Overview This QFE addresses the issues that caused problems detecting Exchange clusters and the other WMI issues that were experienced when using the latest Cluster MP which was released back in April. Cause "Private properties on a cluster resource...

Published Wed, Jun 03 2009 11:53 AM by David Allen MVP

Looking at OpsMgr R2 - Managing X-Plat

Another great new feature in OpsMgr R2 is the ability to manage Unix, Linux, HP UX and IBM AIX servers. What is paricularly great about this feature is that once a X-Plat server has been discovered it is available as an object within OpsMgr as a Windows...

Published Tue, Jun 02 2009 9:45 PM by David Allen MVP

Filed under: OpsMgr 2007 R2, X-Plat

OpsMgr R2 Deployment & Upgrade

If you want to know the supported upgrade paths to Operations Manager R2, check out this blog post by Rob Kuehfus. It confirms the biggest question I am being asked at the moment and that is whether you can upgrade from R2 Eval to R2 Select; yes you can...

Published Fri, May 29 2009 1:43 PM by David Allen MVP

High Memory Usage by VDS.exe on DPM Server

Is VDS.exe eating loads of memory on your DPM servers? If so, the first thing you should do is apply MS hotfix 958387. This hotfix resolves a memory leak in the Virtual Disk Service which should clear the problem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958387...

Published Thu, May 28 2009 4:00 PM by Articles - Podcasts powered by Odiogo

DPM High CPU Usage

Visiting a number of customers recently I have noticed that many were experiencing abnormally high CPU usage on their DPM servers. All the servers were well spec'd and easily had the resources to deal with the load put on them, but still there was...

Published Thu, May 28 2009 2:24 PM by Articles - Podcasts powered by Odiogo

WMUG EVENT - 18/06/09 - Cardinal Place, London

I am delighted to be able to announce our next meeting on Thursday 18th June at Microsoft’s office in Cardinal Place London where this time we'll be kicking off with an in-depth look at Windows 7, courtesy of Viral Tarpara and Andrew Driver from Microsoft...

Published Sun, May 24 2009 12:35 AM by David Allen MVP

Fwd: New MS Forums for OpsMgr

Check out the all new forums for Operations Manager at Microsoft where you'll be able to trade knowledge with OpsMgr customers, MVPs, other experts and the MS product team. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager...

Published Sun, May 24 2009 12:20 AM by David Allen MVP

Operations Manager 2007 R2 goes RTM

I know most of you are probably already aware that System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is now available for download but just in case you missed it, here's the download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID...

Published Sun, May 24 2009 12:20 AM by David Allen MVP

SystemCenterCentral

The site to visit for “Everything System Center” has launched, SystemCenterCentral.com. SystemCenterCentral.com has been founded by three System Center community members; Pete Zerger, Rory McCaw and Maarten Goet. SystemCenterCentral.com is...

Published Tue, Apr 28 2009 3:47 AM by David Allen MVP

Local Data Source Protection

Since the release of DPM SP1 it has been possible to perform local data source protection. This means that the DPM server can protect its own file services and virtualization hosting. By default, however, this functionality is not enabled...

Published Sat, Apr 18 2009 9:52 AM by Articles - Podcasts powered by Odiogo

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Release Candidate - Now Available

System Center Operations Manger 2007 R2 Release Candidate is now available on connect! Operations Manager 2007 R2 Release Candidate Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including: Enhanced application performance and...

Published Thu, Mar 26 2009 10:44 AM by David Allen MVP

Problem with the IIS Modules QFE (957123) for IIS7 Monitoring

If you downloaded this QFE for IIS7 monitoring, you will want to take a look at this post from the Operations Manager team at Microsoft, NOW. http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/02/25/problem-with-the-iis-modules-qfe-957123.aspx The download...

Published Wed, Feb 25 2009 9:38 PM by David Allen MVP

Filed under: OpsMgr 2007

Dynamically Exclude Page File Drives from being Monitored

In the world of standard server builds, it is quite common now to have a dedicated drive just for the system page file. Usually this drive is partitioned to be just big enough to store the pagefile which means under normal monitoring it will constantly...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 10:00 PM by David Allen MVP