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Exciting news in the world of tech books… I spotted a Facebook post by Marcus Oh announcing that Amazon are now accepting pre-orders for the upcoming release of System Center Opalis Integration Server 6.3 Unleashed. There is a long list (by book standards) of contributing authors including one of the hardest working women in IT, [...]

For those that can’t make it to the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) this year, but want to know about all the news and product gossip then there is only one source you need to turn to, the System Center Podcast. Being launched at this years MMS, the System Center Podcast will be a monthly produced [...]

I came across this issue earlier this week when attempting to install OpsMgr R2 on an instance of SQL 2008 R2 Reporting Services. There are actually a couple of symptoms that are related to this issue. Symptom 1 During the setup you are presented with a dropdown list asking for the instance of Reporting Services [...]

Most organisations have a process for decommissioning servers. Some have it documented and implemented as policy, while others take a more ad-hoc approach. Whichever method you employ, when implementing OpsMgr in your environment, you must give some consideration to the decommissioning process within OpsMgr. As one of the final steps in the decommissioning process, you [...]

I have finished coding v1.5 of the 1E System Center Watcher Service (OMWatcher) and have done some preliminary testing. So far… so good. Some new features that are included: Support for clustered RMS (no remedial action is taken though emails are sent and events are logged) Checks the availability of the OperationsManager database (no action [...]

This article covers an issue I saw recently where running the MOMCERTIMPORT tool does not import the certificate into the Operations Manager certificate store.

The 1E OMWatcher tool for Operations Manager 2007 fills an important, and often overlooked gap in every OpsMgr environment. Arising from the question… “Who’s watching the watcher?” … 1E OMWatcher is designed to monitor the 3 critical service on the Root Management Server.

This is the first post in a new series based around the basics of OpsMgr, providing entry level information on the core concepts, processes, methodologies and techniques to assist those who are perhaps looking to further their knowledge of OpsMgr or new to the product.

When running Cummulative Update 2 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 Audit Collection Service you may run into an installer issue. This article may resolve your issue.

I imported the Exchange 2010 Management Pack into a customers test environment and gave enough time for discoveries etc to run. I fired up the Ops Console and to my surprise there were no discovered items… literally.