Having had a chance to use the RC2 product and read the documentation I have developed a number of likes and dislikes about SCOM 2007. I have also filed a few bugs as well. I did say that RC1 was more like a beta. On the beta newsgroups someone else commented that they thought RC2 [...]
Archive for January, 2007
SCOM 2007 likes and dislikes
January 29, 2007SCOM RC2 New AD MP
January 26, 2007Just come in from Connect
A new version of the AD MP is available for download. This updated version of the AD MP addresses several issues in the original AD MP that shipped with RC2. Specifically it fixes:
- AD Topology Discovery
- Discovery of DCs with non-US locales
- Discovery of Windows Server 2000 DCs
It never ceases to [...]
SCOM 2007 mini videos
January 26, 2007There are some short videos showing some parts of SCOM 2007. This is a good way to get a quick look at the new application without having to install RC2.
Tom Keane, Lead Program Manager, does an overview of the new Operations Console. 3:30 minutes.
Using the Operations Console
Presenters: Tom Keane, Microsoft
The Using the Operations Console video [...]
SLA Scorecard for Exchange release – now removal
January 17, 2007I have noticed that the SLA Scorecard for Exchange has a release date of 11th Jan 2007 but the version number stills says 1. I am not sure if this has been updated as there is no mention of it or if it is just a glitch with the date.
It does say that SQL 2005 [...]
Another issue with Availability Reporting
January 17, 2007Most MOM people will have Clive Eastwood’s blog on their list of feeds (if not you should) but you may not have the SMS and MOM Supportability blog on your list.
A new article has appeared their from Clive rather than on his own blog.
http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2007/01/16/availability-reporting-mp-issue-servers-do-not-appear-on-reports-or-their-data-remains-static.aspx
This even affects the latest version so if you are using this MP please [...]
One Source for Management Packs, Please
January 11, 2007We all know that there are links to all the Microsoft MPs and some third party (free and commercial) at the Catalog site. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/mom2005/catalog.aspx
While searching for information and reading blogs I keep on coming across MPs that have been released only to the vendor site or that someone has created for their organisation and so [...]
Creating Management Packs for SCOM 2007
January 10, 2007For a while now I have been toying with the idea of doing a series of posts on creating MOM 2005 management packs. There is a lot of documentation on how to create them for MOM 2005. For SCOM 2007 there is now the documentation on the new style XML MP which at first is [...]
