Go out and download the evaluation version. Learn about what’s new and improved! Try it out in the virtual lab. Or watch a quick video by Sacha Dawes, Senior Program Manager for Operations Manager, on a tour of all the new features in R2.
It’s not on MSDN downloads quite yet, but it should be there [...]
Be sure to add them to your list of places to check for all things Operations manager related http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager
As usual, Anders is the first post over there!
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I’ve added a suggestion on Connect, #436472, that I think would really assist with the creation of custom reports. In HP’s System Insight Manager, when you generate a report for something, like number of CPUs per server, at the very bottom of the report is a link that says “Show SQL query used to generate [...]
Yes, it’s true. You can have fun with Operations Manager. Right now I’m currently on the bench, and then probably unemployment soon since jobs are scarce, but it won’t be slowing me down1 In fact, I’ll be able to work on a lot of the wacky creative uses for OpsMgr - things like:
Tracking your Dominoes [...]
Have you noticed that the command shell performance is lacking? Tab-completion can take over 15 minutes to complete, depending on how many servers you’re monitoring. I’m not 100% sure of the exact reasons behind it, but it seems that the auto-complete will first traverse the local path you’re in when it attempts to complete a [...]
I’ve seen a lot of questions, both in the MVP email list and on the forums/newsgroups, about how to setup OpsMgr to use SMS. The easiest way is with these, GPRS (Cellular) modems.
So I sent an email to my friends at MultiTech and the above showed up - a USB, RS-232, and Ethernet GPRS modems. [...]
One of the problems with having an active, creative imagination is that you come up with multiple little ‘projects’ to work on. Some of those, you know well and can bang out fairly quickly - others, well they require you to beef up some of your weaker skills.
I guess what I’m getting at is I’m [...]
This particular issue happens a lot on Domain Controllers, and especially DCs that you’re running as a gateway server. In the OpsMgr event log, you’ll receive a lot of events from the Health Service Script source with event IDs 1 and 1000.
The text of the alert is:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Health Service Script
Event Category: None
Event [...]
I’ve been incredibly busy doing the basic administration work that comes in an OpsMgr implementation, and as such I have nothing to interesting to write about. Though I have some ideas ticking in the back of my head
I’ve also switched webhosts, and am playing with different solutions for the new pavleck.net, so that eats [...]
Although I technically received the congratulations email several days ago, I debated about whether or not I should post it. But I might as well. Well, what is it already?
I am the newest MS MVP for OpsMgr! I am absolutely thrilled to be the 29th member of the OpsMgr MVP family, and really looking forward [...]
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