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New OpsMgr Cross Plat & Interop Forums
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...

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Operations Manager R2 Totally Unleashed !
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...

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ACS Database, Collector and Reports Install Step by Step Guide
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...

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Implementing a split SRS install for OpsMgr
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...

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Message Queuing Management Pack (MSMQ) for Operations Manager 2007 Released (6.0.6278.23)
The MSMQ MP has been officially released by Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1d2b4398-8bc2-4a43-850c-852ebb0d983b&DisplayLang=en Overview Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) is a server application that enables...

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OpsMgr SP1 MP Discovery Issues, Health service Stops on exchange agent if HandleCountThreshold is exceeded, ACS Collection rule ref wrong EventID, Performance collection raises erroneous alerts.
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...

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OpsMgr sp1 & Dell MP- A monitoring host is unresponsive or has crashed. The status code for the host failure was 2164195371.
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...

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