Archive for August, 2007

SP1 Prerequisite

August 30, 2007

I remember the trouble with MOM 2005 SP1 when they added the prerequisite for MSI v3 at release so the beta testers did not know about it. I had a customer try it as I mentioned it was due to be released and was on the web the next day. Then I got an irate [...]

Not All Services Show Up

August 29, 2007

I was watching Baelson’s presentation from the 2007 MMS DVD and I picked up this useful piece of information which may help explain why not all services show up for monitoring. There were so many sessions that it is useful to have the DVD to go back and watch them again to pick up items [...]

McAfee Again

August 13, 2007

I wrote before about how MOM 2005 has a problem with McAfee ScriptScan. Well it is a problem with 2007 as well. Certainly v8.
At a customer site we saw some servers peaking at 100% and multiple copies of Cscript.exe running. On some servers that were near their limit people started to complain of sluggish response. [...]

Facebook

August 3, 2007

It seems that Facebook is the latest social network craze to sweep the net and I already have a few other OpsMgr bloggers linked in. If we get enough people perhaps we can start a new group for OpsMgr. Of course there will be an argument about what to call it – OpsMgr, Operations Manager, SCOM [...]