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Monday, April 20, 2009 9:00 AM

Workflow Cook-Down in Operations Manager 2007

Abstract I was recently working with Vlad Joanovic , the Microsoft Program Manager for MP development on a new MP that has the potential of having a single...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:00 PM

Relationships in OpsMgr 2007, Part 1

Abstract Of the two EntityTypes in the OpsMgr 2007 schema, ClassTypes and RelationshipTypes , the latter seems to be a straight-forward concept, but can...
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Friday, March 13, 2009 10:15 AM

Workflow Tracer 1 of 4: Workflow Primer

(Links to parts: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 ) I have written a managed code module for tracing the data items moving through a workflow. This is...
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Friday, March 13, 2009 10:10 AM

Workflow Tracer 2 of 4: Module Primer

(Links to parts: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 ) Now that I’ve given a primer on workflows, it is important to discuss modules a bit. The following...
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Friday, March 13, 2009 10:05 AM

Workflow Tracer 3 of 4: Data Item Primer

(Links to parts: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 ) Now that we have discussed how workflows are the heart and soul of OpsMgr and modules are the building...
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Friday, March 13, 2009 10:00 AM

Workflow Tracer 4 of 4: The Tracer Module

(Links to parts: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 ) In the previous three posts, I discussed workflows, modules, and data items. I also stated that understanding...
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Friday, February 13, 2009 3:40 PM

OpsMgr DW Timeouts and TableCount Utility

I recently fixed a problem at one of our clients that had a persistent problem with the DW write actions timing out. After running the profiler and examining...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 5:27 PM

Build 316 of Lineage Explorer

I've had some time to get a new build of the Lineage Explorer out. Build 316 is the latest. If you aren't already familiar with this tool, check...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:14 AM

OpsMgr Scripting: WYWINNWYG

"What You Write Is Not Necessarily What You Get" Abstract OpsMgr 2007 has a fairly substantial library of discovery module types and monitor...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 12:52 AM

Distributed Applications Custom MP

If you have begun to work with distributed applications, you have begun to work with one of the most impressive areas of Operations Manager. This is the...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 12:48 AM

OpsMgr Lineage Explorer

Summary As I've been researching management pack elements over the course of the past 18 months, one task that I find myself doing over and over again...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 12:43 AM

"Plain Old" Host and Network Device Ping Monitor

One of the first monitoring situations you will undoubtedly encounter with OpsMgr 2007 is the "Failed to Ping Computer" alert. This alert is...
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