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Fight The War On Cost with Inframon and Microsoft System Center - November 5th - Churchill War Rooms, London

Posted over 3 years ago

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Click Here To....... Event details Location Churchill War Rooms Clive Steps King Charles Street London SW1A 2AQ Date Friday, November 5th 2010 Follow The War On Cost Event...
Operations Manager 2007 Advanced Architecture for Service Providers - Part 1

Posted over 3 years ago

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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...
New Operations Manager R2 Management Pack Released To The Catalogue

Posted over 3 years ago

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A really great update to the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack has been released to the catalogue. I have been at the MVP summit and had the opportunity to look at this MP up close and personal courtesy of the MP's owner and OpsMgr PM...
The System Center Management Pack catalogue moves to PinPoint

Posted over 3 years ago

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Microsoft have moved the Management pack catalogue to the new Pinpoint format: http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/systemcenter/managementpackcatalog Its a little confusing at first, but I wanted to give you some tips for finding the MP you want...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 1 has released to the download center!

Posted over 3 years ago

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I’m pleased to announce the ENU release of R2 CU1 to the download center. The download center link is now live and the KB article should be published very shortly. Please note the announcement below regarding the realease of the first cumulative...
Presenting at TechReady

Posted over 4 years ago

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I have had a brief week back in the UK after my Keynote presentation with Alison Watson at the Worldwide Partner Conference and now I fly out to Redmond for my second visit of the year (this is getting a bit of a regular thing), this time to take part...
Cool New extended MPs from Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft IT and OpsMgr Product team

Posted over 4 years ago

by GordoDaMom
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Check out the new extended MPs from Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft IT and OpsMgr Product team here: (not officially supported by MS): http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2009/07/newly-released-mps-by-opsmanjam.html Here’s...
Presenting at the keynote with Alison Watson at the Worldwide Partner Conference

Posted over 4 years ago

by GordoDaMom
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Well, I am currently in New Orleans at the Worldwide Partner Conference. It is the first time I have attended this event as a partner, although this is one of the biggest events that Microsoft hold and I believe is the biggest partner conference in...
AEM wizard never finishes in OpsMgr R2

Posted over 4 years ago

by GordoDaMom
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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...
New OpsMgr Cross Plat & Interop Forums

Posted over 5 years ago

by GordoDaMom
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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...
Operations Manager R2 Totally Unleashed !

Posted over 5 years ago

by GordoDaMom
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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...
Office Communications Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 Is Now Released !

Posted over 5 years ago

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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...
SCCM Planning for Dummys Part 1!

Posted over 5 years ago

by GordoDaMom
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Well although I hate to admit it being an OpsMgr guy, I have actually been getting my head around deployment planning for SCCM as of late as part of my ever expanding System Center role (no sarcastic comments please boys). And I have to admit I have...
(OpsMgr07) Do Management Server Hotfixes Apply to Gateway Servers?

Posted over 5 years ago

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A question that came up recently from one of my fellow MVP's was whether or not hotfixes destined for Management Servers need to be applied against Gateway Servers and the simple answer is yes. Here is the official reply from Clive Eastwood OpsMgr...
Problems with Dell Management Pack That Are Addressed in New Release

Posted over 5 years ago

by GordoDaMom
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David posted earlier on the release of the new Dell Management Pack, this pack has had a number of issues some which were actually caused by problems in OpsMgr which have now been addressed in a hotfix. Unfortunately, it is not that obvious in the...
Warning SCCM can be hazardous to your Health Service !

Posted over 5 years ago

by GordoDaMom
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Hi Folks, a heads up, to stop you making the same mistake as me. I have just spent the last three weeks finishing up an OpsMgr rollout for a large manufacturing company in the UK as part of a server re-location project, and as they have a pretty well...
ACS Database, Collector and Reports Install Step by Step Guide

Posted over 5 years ago

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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 ...
Implementing a split SRS install for OpsMgr

Posted over 5 years ago

by GordoDaMom
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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...
Message Queuing Management Pack (MSMQ) for Operations Manager 2007 Released (6.0.6278.23)

Posted over 5 years ago

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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...
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.

Posted over 5 years ago

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

Posted over 5 years ago

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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...
NEW Operations Manager 2007 Training Course

Posted over 5 years ago

by GordoDaMom
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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...
My Session at MMS 2008

Posted over 5 years ago

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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...
New MP Released - Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

Posted over 6 years ago

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The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 has been released and is available from - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e4e84ae5-21d2-4d12-91e0-3e0ff07aeb19&DisplayLang=en Verion...
Updated Operations Manager MP's released to the Web - Windows Server 2000/2003 OS (6.0.5000.25) And DHCP (6.0.5000.33) MP

Posted over 6 years ago

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The following two Management packs have been updated: Windows 2000/2003 updated from 6.0.5000.0 to 6.0.5000.25 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3529d233-5e3e-4b51-8f66-5d6f27005ec3&DisplayLang=en Issues that have been...

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