David St. Clair at myITforum.com

Services Renamed

Operations Manager 2007 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:48:43 GMT

Operations Manager Services have been renamed Something that we have noticed, that’s a bit of an annoyance (in OpsMMgr R2), is that Microsoft has renamed the Operations Manager services. What was the OpsMgr SDK is now the System Center Data Access , OpsMgr...(read more)

Ops Mgr R2 First look

Operations Manager 2007 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:18:41 GMT

Operations Manager R2 RC was released today (version 6.1.7000.x). I just finished building a new Lab Environment and have seen some very interesting things I wanted to share. The first thing I wanted to share was the Overrides view in the Authoring Console...(read more)

50028 - MOC - Operations Manager Course

Operations Manager 2007 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:34:53 GMT

I spent last week teaching the MOC 50028 - Managing Operations Manager 2007. In all fairness I must also admit that I work for an organization that has a competing class (a 4 day custom Operations Manager BootCamp that is NOT the MOC). One of our Canadian...(read more)

MP Authoring / Group Creation weirdness

Operations Manager 2007 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:59:07 GMT

MP Authoring / Group Creation weirdness I've been creating an MP in XML and have come across a very weird problem. I was creating a static membership Group that will contain one server. Seems easy enough right.... here is part of the code I was using...(read more)

Virtual Machine Manager MP WITH Reports released today

Operations Manager 2007 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:01:11 GMT

Virtual Machine Manager MP WITH Reports released today http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d6d5cddd-4ec8-4e3c-8ab1-102ec99c257f&displaylang=en Microsoft has release a new version of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager MP...(read more)

Hyper-V/Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM) Uninstall

Operations Manager 2007 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:26:35 GMT

Hyper-V/Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM) Uninstall Over the last few months we have been playing with the Beta version of Virtual Machine Manager. A few days ago I decided to uninstall the beta version and install the RTM version. Since it was in our...(read more)

InterOp Connectors Released

Operations Manager 2007 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:52:33 GMT

InterOp Connectors Released I got this following email a couple of days ago. The InterOp Connectors have been released. This should make the R2 version of Operations Manager a complete end to end solution... We are excited to announce the release of the...(read more)

Savision Live Maps 3.0 has Gone Live

Operations Manager 2007 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:51:46 GMT

Savision Live Maps 3.0 has Gone Live Live Maps 3.0 has gone live (pun intended). I have written about this product and how valuable I think it will be for enterprises running Operations Manager 2007. If you are interested in seeing this product or have...(read more)

Savision 3

Operations Manager 2007 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:28:38 GMT

Recently I have spent a considerable amount of time playing with Savision Live Maps 3. For those of you that aren't familiar with Live Maps, it's a great third party SCOM mapping and business workflow product. In previous versions of the software...(read more)

Making Windows Live Applications work on Server 2008

Operations Manager 2007 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:48:46 GMT

Making Windows Live Applications work on Server 2008 After rebuilding my laptop back to Server 2008 32bit I wanted to install Windows Live applications (just Live Writer and Messenger). However the installer for these applications fails on the OS Check...(read more)

64 bit Server 2008

Operations Manager 2007 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:23:48 GMT

64 bit Server 2008 As a colleague recently wrote in his blog 64bit Woes not Wows! I wanted to add my two cents. I rebuilt my laptop (Dell XPS M1710, with 4 gigs of RAM) to run Server 2008 x64 sometime around mid summer. I did this for two reasons; 1....(read more)

SCOM R2 Public Beta

Operations Manager 2007 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:47:46 GMT

SCOM R2 Public Beta Exciting news from the SCOM Product Team... The System Center Operations Manager team is excited to announce the availability of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 beta, which is ready for you to download through Connect today! Operations...(read more)

Running SCOM in a Virtual Environment

Operations Manager 2007 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:27:31 GMT

Running SCOM in a Virtual Environment I have been a Systems Engineer in the past with quite a bit of virtualization experience. I’ve built MOM 2005 and SCOM environments in purely physical, all virtual and mixed environments, heck I have a traveling virtual...(read more)

URL Monitoring in SCOM

Operations Manager 2007 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:37:11 GMT

URL Monitoring in SCOM One of our clients is a medium sized company that needed to do some pretty intense web application monitoring (or URL monitoring) in SCOM. A little background first: 1. We were running around 500+ Web Applications/URL monitors divided...(read more)

Alert Descriptions

Operations Manager 2007 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:14:49 GMT

Alert Descriptions Another handy tip to keep in the back pocket during your install.... The Alert description will accept HTML tags. So that means when you are creating your own MP, Rules or Monitors you can format the description to look how you want...(read more)