The upgrade went pretty straightforward on my environment, the SCOM setup detected the RC deployment of OpsMgr and proposed an upgrade when event the OpsMgr database would be upgraded. My OpsMgr Db is on on server and the Root Management server on another, the upgrade should only be run on the RMS. (RMS) Inser the... read more
Since OpsMgr 2007 I found several times with the same error from the DNS Management pack. The “DNS 2008 External Resolution Monitor” is always in an error state besides my DNS has no problems at all solving public names. I solve this problem by overriding for the whole DNS Class the “Query Type” parameter of... read more
Before OpsMgr ACS is able to collect token related audit events (Event ID 299), auditing needs to be enabled on each Geneva Server on the farm. This will create a lot of audits, which you may need to filer using Noise Filtering on your assigned Audit Collector Server, I will cover how we achieved noise... read more
Note: (2009-07-21) I added a couple of details to the article. I just finished the deployment of OpsMgr R2 RC on a lab environment using a multiple server architecture, the deployment was straightforward. Below I blog my experience indicating from which VM I run the commands, Environment This reference environment is based on: AD: Windows... read more
It is great to see how this community is growing, I like the video-way of being on top of industry related news, go deep and spend 20 minutes a day watching this 5-10 minutes videos and you will find yourself on-top of most of the MS management technologies http://edge.technet.com/Tags/System+Center/ The last toy of Ops Mgr... read more
Last Wednesday 18-February we had a TechNet webcast about the System Center Suite. If you want to go deeper you can download the session resources here: http://cid-5f9c7b75bd402dda.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/TechNet/2009-02-18%20-%20System%20Center%20y%20el%20Centro%20de%20Datos I recommend this session to earn a high-level perspective about the System Center Suite, on the online session you can watch demos about the following scenarios: Datacenter Deployment:... read more
Next week Southworks SRL will take part of the SMSE (Systems Management Server Enterprise) event series on Microsoft Argentina, targeted for MS EPG customers. From Southworks we will be involved as expert in the System Center family Solutions. I will be a speaker on sessions about: System Center Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager, System... read more
The IT industry has learned so far that efficient operations without consistent/adaptative processess is not possible. The knowlodge has to be extracted from peoples brain and documented in tangible artifacts. We cannot sill relying on heroes for solving every infrastructure issue. Jason Osborne (Microsoft – Frameworks PM) has started posting about what is comming in... read more
Hi all! I am willing to write a post series about Operations Manager Management Pack development. However, it is impossible to talk about Management Packs without talking about the Microsoft Systems Management vision. This is what this post is about. Right now we walking-through the 4th year of the 10 years Microsoft DSI (Dynamic System... read more
Thanks to Wallis for this Management Packs Roadmap: The installation media contains Exchange Server 2003 Windows Server 2000/2003 AD Information Worker MS Server 2000/03 OS MS Client 2000 XP OS Windows Server IIS 2000/03 SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Windows SharePoint Services 2003 Windows Server 2000/03 Terminal Services SQL Server 2000/05 May 2007 SMS 2003 Office SharePoint... read more