Thanks to a question from one of my readers and some help from a Microsoft forum I updated my post on this topic based on SQL 2005 with the specifics for SQL 2008 as minor changes apply.
Here is the post.
Bob Cornelissen
I really enjoyed the live meeting on managing Exchange 2010 through System Center. Actually I thought the presenters had much more things to tell than they had time for unfortunately. I have to say that time passed by too fast during that small hour. So,…
Something we come across a lot is how antivirus can affect MOM and SCOM agents and management servers. Mostly the database servers have already been thought of. Microsoft released a KB article listing files, directories and extensions that can be…
Martin Dey, the MMS event owner started a blog on organizing the Microsoft Management Summit event for 2010. He also welcomes questions and suggestions. You can find his fresh blog at http://martindey.spaces.live.com/default.aspx. Very nice to he…
Was at a customer site a few days back and encountered a problem with SQL 2008 reporting services on windows 2008 r2. Installed the reporting services and checked http://localhost/reports and found that it did show me a page, but I seemed to miss the…
After importing the Group Policy management pack in SCOM it started picking up events on a customer network like these:Windows cannot bind to [domain name] domain. (Invalid Credentials). Group Policy processing aborted.Just a few hundre…
A fresh update to the Windows Failover Clustering Management Pack has been released.
Some of the major updates in this release are
Support for discovery and monitoring of Windows Server 2008 R2 clusters and functionality such as Cluster Shar…
From The Operations Manager Team blog:Updates to the Exchange Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 are now available on the Management Pack Catalog.The Exchange 2003 MP update includes an improvement to topology discovery that removes the…
From the Operations Manager Product Team blog:
I am very pleased to announce that the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit has RTW’d.
It can be downloaded from : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa…
Microsoft released the DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. The new version is 6.0.6321.0 with publish date 19 Oct 2009.
It can be downloaded here at the DFS management pack download page.
From the downlo…