Big Scripts

While working on a MOM 2005 system all the servers running DFS went red. This organisation had set these up but had then disabled them all temporarily for security reasons and have not re-enabled them.
Looking at the cause there is one big script that runs every 15 minutes. This is the “DFS root, link, and [...]

Exchange MP Request to Product Group

From the early days I have always though that the Exchange MP was a great example of using MOM to the full. They put in cluster awareness when MOM 2000 was not! They put in a lot of advanced features but unfortunately to get these features working you had to configure them.
In MOM 2000 you [...]

Exchange 2007 MP

A few people have written about importing the MP into 2007 and some of the issues. http://contoso.se/blog/?p=218http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!240.entry plus some trouble shooting.And a problem with it on MOM 2005 at http://discussitnow.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A4408C121568CAA4!1631.entry if you are also running Exchange 2003.
I have been busy installing it with MOM 2005 ( a joy to work with again after SCOM 2007) as the organisation [...]

Blueprint for a Big SCOM Design

According to the testing done a single management group can support up to 5,000 agents. If those are all servers then there will not be that many organisations that will need multiple management groups and those that do will be big enough to hire specialist consultants!
From the Design, Guide, Deployment Guide, Security Guide, Performance and [...]

Agent Proxy

First there was the OpsMgr console GUI and it was bad. You can only set the agent proxy one server at a time! There was a wailing and gnashing of teeth. Especially from those people who had to do hundreds of AD and Exchange servers.
Then there was the PowerShell script. Crafted by a Redmond Program [...]

OpsMgr Updates

A few people have already mentioned about the new updated MPs for Operations Manager itself. You will definitely need the backward compatibility MP in order to import some of the new MPS that have been converted from MOM 2005 and the others contain important fixes.
Here are what the new MPs contain (dates in US format) [...]