New version of the SCOM MP

Saw a post from Cory Delamarter from a few days ago about the release of a new version of the OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP. They released version 6.1.7672.0
Please refer to that post for a number of changes implemented in this version of the MP.
Thanks to Cor…

Sending SCOM alerts to Twitter

My good friend Walter Eikenboom just wrote a post about sending SCOM alerts to Twitter :DThere are of course some disadvantages and advantages, but it is just very cool and quite easy to setup! You could say it is an alternative for the SMS subscriptio…

MP authoring reminders

Some reminders for myself of some recent articles, posts etc about MP authoring.
1) This article is a guideline to all developers out there who want to develop customizable providers for CIM Servers to instrument management assets on Cross Platforms,…

SCOM R2 Unleashed book finally at home

Yeah!
Finally I got the paper version of the SCOM 2007 R2 Unleashed book in my hand.
My Precious (imagine the Gollum voice here)…
Already had the electronic version, but I simply like real paper books most for normal reading.
Thanks to Kerrie and f…

SCOM agent error Microsoft ESENT Keys are required

Ran into this error while manually changing some SCOM agents. They actually needed both an update and a second management group configured.
While trying to update the settings of the SCOM agent through Add/Remove programs on Windows 2008 boxes I got t…

Additional SCOM Update KB981263

Microsoft released another SCOM update KB981263:
Management servers or assigned agents unexpectedly appear as unavailable in the Operations Manager console in Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008
Consider the following scenario:
You install…