With the impending release of System Center 2012 Operations Manager, we thought now would be the perfect time to consolidate our blog properties and give you a single, concise gateway into the world of all that is Operations Manager. No longer will we...

We have created a new forum under the Operations Manager forum category on TechNet for Application Performance Monitoring (APM).  Please feel free to fire away questions to Microsoft, the MVPs, and the broader community, answer questions , and have...

Following the release of System Center 2012 Release Candidate, Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate of the Orchestrator Integration Packs for the following System Center 2012 components: System Center 2012 Virtual...

Here’s another cool article by Microsoft’s own Jeanie Decker that I found over in our TechNet Wiki .  This one goes over some examples of dynamic  groups in System Center Operations Manager.  Do you have examples of dynamic group formulas...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where a restricted user can attempt certain actions that they don't have permission to yet get a (false) message indicating it was successful. ===== Symptoms When using...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on VMM 2012 and SCOM. This one talks about a couple potential integration issues you may run into after configuring OpsMgr integration with System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager: ===== Symptoms...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on SCOM 2007. This one talks about configuration churn, what can cause it and how you can address it if you see it in your environment: ===== Configuration Overview The System Center Management Configuration...

Hi everyone, Alvin Morales here.  This article presents possible errors and issues you may encounter after setting Operations Manager integration with System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2012).  Note that this can apply to System...

Michael wrote a post in August, about working with Alerts .  One of the key takeaways from that post, is that – for each application and for each application component – we have FOUR Alerting rules, that can be turned on or off from the APM Template...

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So - now that the Release Candidate of System Center 2012 is out and the general availbility is fast approaching you may be starting to get more serious about getting up to speed on System Center 2012. Am I right? Don't even worry! We are here to help...

At the webcast this morning Satya Nadella, President of the Server and Tools Division, and Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Management and Security at Microsoft announced the availability of System Center 2012 RC and introduced the new licensing...

Looking to get some hands-on lab work on how to do infrastructure and application performance monitoring with System Center 2012 – Operations Manager?  If so then this one’s for you: ===== Deploying the infrastructure for a private cloud is just...

There is a really important web cast that is happening tomorrow that I wanted to remind you all about. You won't want to miss it. Here is the description of the event. Registration link is below. The definition, business value, and technology...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on SCOM 2007.  This one talks about an issue where ACS reports only return a max of 42 days worth of data: ===== Symptoms When using System Center Operations Manager 2007, the audit database...

It has been a while since we posted some new information about APM in OpsMgr 2012. Michael wrote a post in August, about working with Alerts , which was following up on a couple of previous ones about how to get things running , how APM works , and how...

Microsoft’s own Chandan Bharti posted another great article over on his personal blog about how to create a diagnostic task for Unix/Linux services in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007). This one actually builds on his previous post about...

Microsoft’s own Chandan Bharti recently posted a great article over on his personal blog about how to create a recovery task for Linux services in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM 2007).  If you’re looking to do the same then you’ll want...

Here’s a new KB article we published today. This one describes an issue where the WinRM command fails with Access Denied and error number: -2147024891 0x8007005: ===== Symptoms After installing the UNIX/Linux agent for System Center Operations Manager...

Here’s another KB article we published today. This one describes a problem where the SCOM 2007 Config Service may consume 100% CPU utilization on servers that have 8 or more cores: ===== Symptoms On machines that have more than eight (8) CPU cores, you...

Here’s another KB article we published today. This one describes a problem where the SCOM 2007 console may crash while setting the scale on a performance view if the performance counters have hugely different values: ===== Summary While working in the...

Here’s another KB article we published today. This one describes a problem where deploying the SCOM 2007 Linux Agent fails with "The certificate Common Name (CN) does not match" due to a certificate issue: ===== Symptoms Attempting to deploy...

Microsoft’s very own Kevin Holman just posted a great article over on his blog talking about an issue where Logical Disk free space alerts don’t show percent and MB free values in the alert description in SCOM 2007.  If you haven’t seen it yet then...

Here’s another KB article we published today.  This one describes how to change the Operations Manager 2007 Admin group if the original was deleted from Active Directory: ===== Symptoms When attempting to login to the System Center Operations Manager...

While reports are a good way to get data specific for a certain time period, customers like you wanted a way a rich way to visualize data which you could then project and share with your organization. In OpsMgr 2012, we introduced the concept of Dashboards...