After installing the scom agent on a Red Hat 5.3  server and importing the management packs I started getting a bunch of  Secure Reference Override Alerts in my ops manager…

If you try to delete a distributed application you may get an error like this. Application: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Application Version: 6.1.7221.0 Severity: Error Message: : Verification failed…

Our SQL Team doesn’t want to manage SQL Express installations. Typically SQL Express is used for Dev/Test and they don’t want to be alerted on these databases. Turns out there…

I ran into an issue where I needed to count the number of xml files in a directory.  The problem was there are 10,000 other files in the directory.  The…

From http://www.expta.com/2009/06/windows-server-2008-r2-service-pack.html You may have known that Windows Server 2008 RTM shipped as Service Pack 1. This is because the Windows Server 2008 code base is shared by Windows Vista, and…

Today I took the 70-400 Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring and passed with a 980. I was shooting for a 1000 and fell one question short.

* This event was Recorded on Thursday, April 30, 2009. * http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032409727&CountryCode=US Agenda – Deployment and Performance Best Practices – High Availability and Disaster recovery Best Practices – Virtualization Best…

In the MMS keynote today Bob Kelly, Corporate Vice President, Server & Tools, announced that Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM will be released in 30 days. If you are not…

An updated Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack has been released sorta. **UPDATE** The Management Pack has been updated on the site. Here are the changes. Fixed performance issues caused by…