How so Schedule Clusters for Maintenance Mode Go to the Class Page Under Class type in Windows Cluster   Select the cluster you want to schedule for Maintenance Mode.  In this case…

Users closing monitor based alerts creates chaos in a SCOM environment.  The SCOM Monitor Reset app keeps your alerts in sync.  Now users can close any alert and know that…

One of my customers was experiencing lots of growth in their OperationsManager DB. They monitor hundreds of SQL servers. I had a look into their Top Tables using Kevin Holman’s Large…

New Features in Version 7.2 Intelligent Maintenance Mode Bug Fix – Fixed bug where total minutes was being incorrectly calculated for Intelligent Maintenance Mode   Download Now

New Features in Version 7 CSV Server Import – Now you can schedule a list of Windows or Unix computers for Maintenance Mode using a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file….

Customer was asking why they were not getting alerts for SQL Agent Job failures.  They had enabled individual SQL Agent Job Discoveries that is talked about in Kevin’s post. By default the Last…

Today it was officially announced that Microsoft has acquired BlueStripe software, which has been a key partner for Operations Manager and Azure for monitoring application performance and availability of distributed business…

Ran into this issue today trying to upgrade from SCOM RTM to SCOM SP1 I got the standard 1603 error in the OpsMgrSetupWizard.log [15:44:20]: Error: :LaunchMSI: MSI D:\Setup\AMD64\Server\OMServer.msi returned error 1603…

I ran into this error today trying to install SCOM 2012.  “The target principal name is incorrect. Cannot generate SSPI context.” The Error from the Setup Wizard was “This SQL…

Here are the new features in V6: Dedicated Linux / Unix Page –  Linux and Unix admins now have a dedicated page to schedule maintenance mode.  They can search and select…