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…

SCOM 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 2 is out

The new Cumulative Update 2 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 has been released just before this weekend.
You can find the download at the download center:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=61714687-668a-46e4-b127-ad851959435…

SCOM R2 Unleashed book at MMS

 
From a posting by Kerrie: At the MMS Veeam is giving away a limited number of copies of this great new book. There will also be signings by the authors!
Congrats for getting the paper version out there too Kerrie!!!
Bob Cornelissen

Message Queuing management packs released

 
So the Message Queuing management packs for version 4 and 5 have been released. I know this is old news for some of you, as these MPs have been available for the last 2 weeks almost ;). I recently got a question as to what these versions are.
W…

Memory usage SCOM agent for linux

 We had a chance the other week to understand the memory usage by SCOM cross plat agents for Red Hat linux and I wanted to share this info with you. The take away by the way is that the agent is not using much memory.The case:After deploying…