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Deploying Office 2007 with System Center Essentials 2007
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a solution designed for IT administrators in midsized organizations that include up to 30 servers and 500 client computers. Administrators can use the System Center Essentials 2007 to secure, update, monitor, and track their IT environment. With System Center Essentials, you can perform the following tasks: Use the inventory feature to collect and examine...
HP ProLiant Management Pack for Essentials 2007
HP Proliant Management Pack v1.1 The HP Server Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 and Essentials 2007 support the following features: User Defined Custom Data Icons for Console Diagram View Streamlined Base Hardware event rules in the HP Integrity Management Pack Streamlined procedure for HP Server Management Packs for installation Improved management of events by eliminating multiple alerts...
Reporting in Essentials 2007
Reporting in Essentials 2007 provides a very simple method to generate a report. SQL Server 2005 Express as well as other higher editions of Yukon are supported. Reports can contain data from the following sources: WSUS Operations Manager AEM The reporting feature in Essentials 2007 is available immediately after installation without performing any additional steps. There are four reports that are...
Essentials 2007 and SQL
SQL Server is a very sophisticated technology that requires expert tuning, maintenance and monitoring. SQL Server is used by many applications and services and must be stable or its dependant products will be unreliable. Very large IT infrastructures have dedicated teams for each element of the infrastructure. In smaller companies a dedicated DBA is rarely an option. Dedicated tools are needed to aid...
Essentials 2007 SP1 topics at MMS 2008
Time to start thinking about attending Microsoft Management Summit 2008 from April 28 to May 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. IT professionals interested in learning more about WSUS 3.0 SP1 and how it interacts Essentials 2007 SP1 will have a chance to have their questions answered during two sessions on the topic, Partners can attend a session and learn more about Remote Operations Manager 2007 and how it...
N-able partnership with Essentials 2007 in the news
I spotted a couple articles further dicussing the new partnership between N-able, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, and System Center Essentials 2007. N-able Technologies(R) to Deliver Next Level of Interoperability to Managed Service Providers Worldwide N-able inks interoperability deal with Microsoft In case you missed it, yesterday's post was an inteview with N-able's VP of R&D, August...
N-able Technologies to Partner with Essentials 2007
N-able (pronounced en-able ) announced today that they will be partnering with System Center Essentials 2007 to provide a remote management solution for midsized businesses. Here is an interview with August Wehrmann, Vice President of Research & Development at N-able Technologies to help explain this new product. Who is N-able? N-able Technologies is a global supplier of remote management technology...
Error when you install the Essentials 2007 reporting feature: "SRS Server Validation Error"
ISSUE: When you install the Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 reporting feature, the installation may be unsuccessful. Additionally, you may receive an error message that resembles the following: SRS Server Validation Error CAUSE The Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) computer that is running SQL Server Reporting Services has the default Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) port for the Web site...
Monitoring MySQL using Essentials 2007
I just ran across a great post by Tom Swanson on how he monitors MySQL using Essentials 2007 . Check it out! In his post, Tom describes the steps he took to create custom monitors and how to work around monitoring ODBC drivers. The steps include: Make a custom monitor that checks all the MySQL services are running OK Watch for the particular ports used by MySQL to make sure they are live from outside...
Essentials 2007 Management Packs - Cataloged and Uncataloged
In an earlier post I identified a number of partner management packs for use with Essentials 2007. There are loads of additional custom MPs that don't show up in the standard Microsoft catalogue that can be used either as is or with slight modifications customized for your specific needs. Here is a summary of what is currently available: You can start with the Microsoft catalogue and see what is...
New KB: Update distribution issues in System Center Essentials 2007
Problem: In Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007, you import updates from partner catalogs. When you do this, you experience the following symptoms. Symptom 1 The update source files are not correctly downloaded to the server that is running System Center Essentials 2007 during the import process. These files can not be distributed to the managed hosts. Symptom 2 When selecting Import updates from...
Issues Fixed in Essentials 2007 SP1
Posted at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949389&sd=rss&spid=12684 The following issues have been fixed in System Center Essentials 2007 SP1: 943111 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943111/) Description of System Center Essentials 2007 post-release hotfix rollup 936339 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936339/) Windows-based computers are not displayed in the Network...
New KB: Discovery and Agent Approval issues with Essentials 2007 in Service Provider Mode
SCENARIO Run Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 in Service Provider mode. You may experience the following symptoms related to agent approval: Symptom 1 After a System Center Essentials 2007 server is configured to Service Provider mode, computers managed by the Operations Manager server must be discovered and then approved in Operations Manager. However, it may take several hours to approve these...
Dell Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007
The Dell Management Pack for Microsoft System Center now supports Essentials 2007. The Management Pack provides a list of Dell-specific views that you can use to observe and drill down the system status in a network. Fixes and Enhancements: Added support for System Center Essentials 2007. Enhanced health drill down model in Diagram views from overall Dell Hardware health to individual hardware components...
New KB: Error starting Health service on a Win2003-based Server running Essentials 2007
STEPS • Install Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 on a Windows Server 2003-based computer. • The Opsmgr Health service does not start. • Attempt to manually start the Opsmgr Health service, you may receive the following error message: Could not start the Opsmgr health service on Local computer. Error 0x8004005 Additionally, the following events are logged in the Event Viewer System log: Event...
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