Archive for March, 2007

Hot Tip – Creating a Rule with Regular Expression

March 30, 2007

When creating a rule in OM 2007 the drop down does not allow you to create a regular expression for Event ID. This can be done by doing it in MOM 2005 and then export and import but that is a hassle. MVP Rory McCaw showed how to do it in the OM 2007 GUI [...]

Scripting, PowerShell and PowerGUI

March 30, 2007

First there was batch files then there were scripts and now there is PowerShell.
I had a comment from Dmitry (http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/momscom-powershell/) who asks about MOM bloggers and PowerShell as there does not seem to be many.
Well there are more Exchange installations out there and it has been going longer than MOM and SCOM, which does use [...]

1E Birthday Party

March 29, 2007

The 1E party at MMS is getting to be legendary. This year is their 10th birthday so it was a BIG party with a few hundred people attending. I remember the first one I went to at Las Vegas 4 years ago and there was only about 30 people there. How it has grown. And [...]

Interview at MMS

March 29, 2007

Today at MMS I met up with Stefan and Maarten in their orange shirts promoting the System Center User Group in the Netherlands. They did a short 4 minute video interview with me about my experience and thoughts on System Center. You can see it on their site when it goes live on 18th June. [...]

Ops Manager 2007 KBs

March 28, 2007

Well would you believe it! SCOM 2007 just  RTMs and Clive is already talking about a couple of KB’s for it. That’s fast.
OpsMGr07 KB934757 – Error message when you click Record after you start the Web Application Editor in Operations Manager 2007: “The requested lookup key was not found in any activation context”
OpsMgr07 KB934756 – How [...]

MMS 2007 in San Diego

March 27, 2007

I am in San Diego now at the conference. I arrived on Saturday after a long flight from the UK and had Sunday to relax and chill out before the conference started. It was a nice sunny day and I got a little sunburn as I spent most of the day at Balboa Park.I was [...]

SCOM 2007 RTM

March 23, 2007

According to Bink.nu the RTM code for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 was signed off and is now gold code. It usually takes a few days to get it on the various web sites (Select and MSDN) as all RTM code has to go through a process at Microsoft. It can take a few weeks to get [...]

MOMresources morphs to systemcenterforum

March 23, 2007

Pete has already blogged about it (obviously) and Anders and Stefan but in case you have not seen it  http://www.momresources.org has morphed into http://www.systemcenterforum.org/.
The original site will still be available for links etc but all the new stuff will be on the new site. The new site reflects the new System Center brand which is also [...]

MMS 2007

March 21, 2007

I am off to MMS 2007 this year held in my favourite city – San Diego. Pity I will not see much of it as I will be in dark rooms watching PowerPoints most of the week. But for all who will be there it would be good to meet up and have a drink.
This [...]

F5 and Trend Micro OM News

March 14, 2007

Trend Micro have stated in a press release that the new version of their product Trend Micro™ ScanMail™ for Microsoft™ Exchange, version 8.0 will work with MOM. This is due for release in April.
http://uk.trendmicro-europe.com/enterprise/about_us/spresse.php?id=423
“The new version also integrates with Microsoft Operations Manager (MoM) and Microsoft Outlook junkmail folder for even easier management and administration.”
It does [...]