You would probably have seen this by now as most SCOM bloggers have a post on it. For details on what it contains (KB974144) and link to download see
Before you install it be sure to check out Kevin’s post on the best way to install it.
And a tip from Daniele on updating the console.
http://nocentdocent.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/eventually-we-got-cumulative-1-for-r2/
This should now put OpsMgr up to v6.1.7221.13.
A few days ago the System Center Essential teams announced that SCR 2010 RC was available at a whopping 5 GB download. Thank goodness for broadband. For details see
And they have then posted about how to use SCE 2010 to deploy Office 2010 beta.
Just seen that the File Services MP for SCOM 2007 has been released as a beta (i.e. not supported).
It is on Connect if you want to try the beta. It is nice to see the Product Groups improving on the MPs and releasing betas for feedback.
The following table describes which File Services role service can be monitored with the beta management pack on various Windows Server versions:
Role Service and OS Version Supported
Here are several of the key features provided in this beta management pack:
Agentless Monitoring
Ability to monitor file services on servers without deploying a SCOM agent to the specific server
Highly Available Cluster Instance Monitoring
Ability to monitor the health status of a Highly Available File Server deployed on a Failover Cluster
NFS Role Service
Monitor activity logging, NIS configuration, port registration, portmaper service, NFS service driver, username mapping service, and more
FSRM Role Service
Monitor FSRM service, quota driver, filescreen driver, file classification task progress, and orphaned mountpoints
DFSR Role Service
Monitor the health of DFS Replication service, communications with replication partners, database recovery, communications with Domain Controllers, free space on volume containing a replicated folder, USN journal wrap events, overlap with FRS, inconsistent configuration, and more
DFSR Backlog Tracking
Ability to display the backlog count per connection for a DFS replication group
DFSR Performance Counters
Track data for bandwidth ravings, replication conflicts, deleted files and staging area
DFS Namespace Role Service
Monitor DFS namespace service, health of a single namespace hosted on multiple servers, health of the AD component of DFS namespaces, site table initialization, namespace initialization, Namespace Synchronization with AD, Folder Target Health and more
SMB Role Service
Monitor the health of Lanman server service, creation of shares at system startup, IRP stack overflow events, firewall port configuration
If you are testing out the new SharePoint 2010 betas then you may want to look at the beta MPs for them as well. They work with both SP1 and R2.
Details of the improvements to the packs are here which includes the links to the download locations.
The post highlights the fact that they have significantly increased the number of discoveries, classes and monitors but have reduced the rules. But as we all know more does not always mean better. In fact one of Microsoft’s big advertising themes for Windows Server was “Do More With Less”. I would rather have 1 good quality monitor than 10 poor ones. But it looks like they have improved the health monitoring as shown in the screenshots. Significant improvements for large SharePoint installations.
In 2010 you can monitor multiple farms, multiple servers, services, shared services, SharePoint Health Analyzer rules (Which saves you a trip to central admin which also means that System Center Operation Manager console is your one stop shop for all monitoring requirements) and web applications.
In case you were not aware SharePoint Foundation is the new name for Windows SharePoint services. So SharePoint Foundation 2010 is actually WSS v4.0. Note that the new versions of SharePoint are 64 bit only.
The main MP covers
