2 days ago by Kristopher Bash

In this post, I intend to describe some of the challenges in scaling SNMP monitoring in an Operations Manager environment to a large number of monitored objects, as well as my experiences from testing and the approaches that I took to address these challenges with the xSNMP Management Packs. Backgro ...

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3 days ago by Ian Blyth

This error may occur on Windows 2008 servers Group Policy Preprocessing (Active Directory) Alert Alert Description Source: Server name The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not authenticate to the Active Directory service on a domain controller. (LDAP Bind function call failed). Look ...

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4 days ago by Kristopher Bash

Introduction Over the past several weeks, I’ve been hard at work on some new SNMP management packs for Operations Manager 2007 R2, to replace the Cisco SNMP MP and extend similar functionality to a wide range of SNMP-enabled devices. In the next few posts, I hope to describe some of the design and d ...

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13 days ago by Kristopher Bash

Although SQL backups of the content databases for a Windows SharePoint Services farm can be used for data recovery, it’s usually a good idea to also perform backups through the stsadm.exe utility to facilitate site and object-level restores. I recently took on a task to script a more robust solution ...

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15 days ago by Ian Blyth

According to the Power Management MP (version 6.0.6735.0 is the first version and was released on 9th Nov 2009) the Windows 2008 R2 Server hardware that qualifies for the “Enhanced Power Management” Additional Qualification logo is at http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/results.aspx?&chtext=&cstext= ...

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51 days ago by System Center Spartan

As a follow-up to the OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP update, the Ops Mgr Product team released the corresponding update for OpsMgr 2007 SP1. This updated MP package can and should only be imported onto OpsMgr 2007 SP1 environments and includes a number of fixes that were provided in R2 and the most recent update ...

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54 days ago by Kristopher Bash

I’ve only had my hands on the OpsMgr MP Authoring Resource Kit for about 24 hours now, but already the tools are proving to be invaluable. This post describes a problem that I was able to investigate with the Workflow Analyzer tool to determine the exact cause of the issue. Background In a managemen ...

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55 days ago by Kristopher Bash

Microsoft has just released the Operations Manager Resource Kit, and my first impressions are very positive. I haven’t had a chance to test drive all of the tools, but the MP Best Practices Analyzer and Workflow Analyzer show great potential. The MP Best Practices Analyzer shows up under the Tools m ...

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56 days ago by jpavleck

Alas, it seems those Danes are just as goofy as I am. And I’m happy to hear it! Jakob Svendsen over at CoreTech released a management pack today. That management pack will alert you when the coffee in your coffee pot gets low. I’ll go ahead and embed the video below, but you’ll have to go to their s ...

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64 days ago by System Center Spartan

There has already been some posting around the inundation of Ops Mgr 2007 MPs released: Active Directory 2000 / 2003 / 2008 (now supports W2K8 R2 DCs) Exchange Server 2003 Exchange Server 2007 – resolves Remote Mail Flow Synthetic Transaction Operations Manager 2007 Core I find it interesting that M ...

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