September 2005 - Posts

• MOM documentation comes of age

  I have been using the online MOM documentation quite a lot recently, and I have to say it's finally looking like a top quality set of guides. http://www.microsoft.com/mom/techinfo/productdoc/default.mspx For those who dont know its had a recent update in August and has a new look and feel and has had a lot of good updates. With MOM 2005 being one of the more recent products in the product line I knew that it would take some time getting the docs anywhere near the standards of SMS's very impressive line up, but I do feel now that is starting to finally come of age. Big up to the documentation people, you can be proud of a very comprehensive and professional line up of docs in the catalogue, with very easy to use and navigate online versions. Just need to sort the management pack catalogue out now ;-) Posted Sep 16 2005, 01:57 AM by gmckenna with no comments Filed under: General

• WSSMP

  My good friend over at Microsoft UK, Ian Blyth has been raving onto me about the Web Site and Services Management Pack, and has recently blogged about it http://spaces.msn.com/members/ianblyth/blog/cns!1p0-3FdNn2x1K-q_WMcbBwlg, I have to agree this is an awesome bit of kit to add to your line up of Management Packs and is so much more than just another management pack, it is a complete .NET application designed to give you maximum control over the performance and uptime of your website both externally facing and internally........download a copy today and impress the hell out of your bosses :-) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53bc39b6-756b-4f01-b0d2-a8ca9751011f&DisplayLang=en   Posted Sep 15 2005, 02:40 AM by gmckenna with no comments Filed under: General

• Windows 2000

  I have rolled MOM out to many Windows 2000 servers and there are a number of things to look out for when planning to deploy. WMI Providers for AD management There are a couple of WMI providers that have to be installed for the effective management of a Windows 2000 AD with MOM, it is good practice I have found to install these before you deploy both the AD and DNS management packs. DNS - The DNS WMI  provider (dnsprov.dll) is available with the MOM 2000 resource kit, alternatively you can download this provider at the following location ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/reskit/win2000/dnsprov.zip There is also a hotfix available for this that fixes a memory leak issue, which I also always install, details of which can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822849 AD - The AD Replication provider (replprov.dll) is available with the MOM 2000 resource kit also, again this has a potential WMI issue, so I always download the patched version, details of which can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;889054   Posted Sep 15 2005, 01:54 AM by gmckenna with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Gotcha's

• Welcome to my new MOM 2005 blog

  Hi, and welcome to my MOM 2005 blog at My ITForum. I am an IT Pro and MVP specialising in the worlds best management tool, MOM. I pretty much spend most of my days out in the field deploying MOM 2005 for customers large and small and thought I would blog about my experiences with the view to helping people out who have issues with the product and to also spread the word about what an awesome tool MOM 2005 is. I hope you find my posts useful Cheers, Gordon. Posted Sep 15 2005, 01:07 AM by gmckenna with no comments Filed under: General