Operations Manager - Management Packs announcements

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  Link to all Microsoft Management Packs
  DanielSavage [MSFT] Wednesday, March 13, 2013 4:25 PM

  You can find all existing and soon to be released Management Packs for Operations Manager at : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16174.microsoft-management-packs.aspx

AVICode 5.7 announcements

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  Welcome to the AVIcode forum
  Justin Incarnato Microsoft employee Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:00 PM

  Avicode: Collection of blogs and articles to jump-start your AVIcode journey

  http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/avicode.aspx

  http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/83808/Default.aspx 

Operations Manager - Reporting announcements

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  Troubleshooting Blank Reports in System Center Operations Manager
  ScottMoss MVP Tuesday, April 23, 2013 3:18 AM

  Troubleshooting Blank Reports in System Center Operations Manager

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2573329

Operations Manager - Extensibility announcements

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  Welcome
  Justin Incarnato Microsoft employee Friday, May 22, 2009 5:00 PM

  System Center Operations Manager forums provide you an opportunity to join a community of Operations Manager customers where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with IT environments similar to yours. Start by posting Operations Manager related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.

  If you have any suggestions or feedback on the System Center Operations Manager product, please feel free to post in our forums.

Operations Manager - Unix and Linux announcements

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  Latest Agents and MPs for SCOM 2012 and SCOM 2012 R2
  Steve Weber [MSFT] Microsoft employee Friday, July 26, 2013 4:08 PM

  Latest MPs and Agents [UR3] for SCOM 2012 and SCOM 2012 SP1 can be found here:

  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29696

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  Helpful Links for Cross Platform Information
  Robert_Hearn Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:56 PM

  Helpful links for System Center Cross Platform information:

  
  
  

  Top Troubleshooting Topics:

  Certificate Signing Error Message The Certificate Name Does Not Match the Hostname Incorrect Operations Manager Process Fmd Alerts Might Be Generated on SPARC-Based and x86-Based Computers Running Solaris 10 Zones Operations Manager Incorrectly Reports Shared Resources from a Solaris 10-Based Server Cross-Platform Logging Methods

  Blogs:

  System Center Cross Platform Team Blog

  Source Code Projects on CodePlex:

  Cross Platform Solutions Cross Platform Community Extensions

  Product Documentation:

  Cross Platform Management Pack Authoring Guide Deploying UNIX or Linux Agents Cross Platform Operating System Package Dependencies Authentication and Data Encryption for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems Management Pack Guides for Cross Platform Operating Systems

  Product Information:

  Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform and Interop Solutions

  Latest Downloads

  System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Update System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors

Operations Manager - Deployment announcements

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  What’s new in R2 Deployment and Upgrade!
  Rob Kuehfus Friday, May 29, 2009 10:41 PM

  Check out the MOM team blog for some quick information.
  
  http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/05/29/what-s-new-in-r2-deployment-and-upgrade.aspx
  
  

  New Documentations and Guides

  Upgrade Guide

  Troubleshooting Guide

  Deployment Guide

  
  
  Thanks
  
  Rob Kuehfus | Operations Manager | Setup and Deployment Program Manager
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  OpsMgr 2007 SP1 and R2 now officially support Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
  Rob Kuehfus Friday, September 18, 2009 7:28 PM

  http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/09/18/opsmgr-2007-sp1-and-r2-now-officially-support-windows-server-2008-r2-and-windows-7.aspx

   

  Support is now available for running Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and Operations Manager 2007 R2 on the following operating systems:

  ·         Windows Server 2008 R2

  ·         Windows 7

  The official support statement is posted under Knowledge Base article 974722.  The supported configuration guides for R2 and SP1 will be updated shortly as well.  The following table lists the Operations Manager roles and components that are supported on these operating systems.

  OS	OpsMgr server roles	OpsMgr Agent	OpsMgr Operations Console
  Windows Server 2008 R2	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Windows 7	No	Yes	Yes

   

  The updated Windows Server Operating System Management Pack (version 6.0.6667.0), which includes support for Windows Server 2008 R2, is available on the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Catalog web site at this time as well!  There are currently over 20 MP updates or new releases that are in the pipeline for months ahead to support this OS and when those management packs become available you can get them on the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Catalog web site and from the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Operations console.

  Note: No support for Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 will be provided with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.

  Thanks
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  Welcome
  Justin Incarnato Microsoft employee Friday, May 22, 2009 4:59 PM

  System Center Operations Manager forums provide you an opportunity to join a community of Operations Manager customers where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with IT environments similar to yours. Start by posting Operations Manager related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.

  If you have any suggestions or feedback on the System Center Operations Manager product, please feel free to post in our forums.

Operations Manager - Authoring announcements

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  Welcome
  Justin Incarnato Microsoft employee Friday, May 22, 2009 5:00 PM

  System Center Operations Manager forums provide you an opportunity to join a community of Operations Manager customers where you can share knowledge, get questions answered, and learn from others with IT environments similar to yours. Start by posting Operations Manager related questions in the forum corresponding to your topic of interest and leverage the knowledge available in your new forum community.

  If you have any suggestions or feedback on the System Center Operations Manager product, please feel free to post in our forums.

Operations Manager - General announcements

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  Operator Basics SuperFlow available
  Jeanie Decker Microsoft employee Wednesday, April 07, 2010 7:10 PM

  The Operator Basics SuperFlow for Operations Manager 2007 helps front-line operators who are new to Operations Manager get started using the product.

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  Troubleshooting Blank Reports in System Center Operations Manager
  ScottMoss MVP Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:19 PM

  New KB Troubleshooting Blank Reports in System Center Operations Manager

  http://support.microsoft.com/k​b/2573329
  

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  Looking to Create Performance Alerting?
  Adrian Doyle MSFT Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:37 PM

  How to create a Basic Performance Monitor to look at a Static Threshold - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309655.aspx

  Detailed information on Performance Monitors can be found at - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff629408.aspx

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  Cumulative Update 6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (KB2626076)
  Bob Cornelissen MVP Wednesday, May 16, 2012 5:34 PM

  Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 includes all previous cumulative updates for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and includes all cross-platform updates.
  
  To download Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2, go to the following Microsoft Download Center website:

  Download Cumulative Update 6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2            (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=694147f8-9691-4833-97af-0de918c60141)       

  
  Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues:

  • RMS promotion fails if NetworkName and PrincipalNames are not in sync for agents.
  • UI is limited to only 100 MB for the Memory Usage field in the wizard.
  • Additional OIDs in auth certificate are not processed correctly.
  • AEM creates duplicate computer objects in OpsMgr based on Agents NetBIOS name.
  • Cannot open reporting pane on OpsMgr 2007 R2 remote console.
  • Cannot view schedule for scheduled report.
  • ManagementServerConfigTool with the option "promoterms" fails because it stops polling the SDK Service.
  • OpsMgr reports are failing on Windows 7 with the error: "Cannot initialize report."
  • ACS events have "n/a" as their category in the ACS database.
  • Watch agentless monitoring listener to detect failure to respond.
  • SCOM SDK memory leak on cryptography keys and cryptography contexts.
  • After you click Edit Schedule, a message box appears, and you cannot save the change value.
  • Audit events can be lost when the AdtServer process crashes.

  Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following cross-platform issues:

  • The installation process for the IBM AIX 6.1 agent incorrectly checks for AIX 5.3 packages.
  • After a system restart, the OpsMgr agent for Solaris may start to run before local file systems are mounted.
  • On Red Hat Linux version 4 and SUSE Linux version 9, LVM disks are not discovered and cannot be monitored.
  • The OpsMgr agent for AIX does not report the arguments for monitored processes.
  • When Microsoft security update MS12-006 is installed on an OpsMgr management server, that management server can no longer communicate with the OpsMgr agent on any Linux or UNIX server.
  • On HP-UX, OpsMgr cannot discover and monitor a logical volume that is composed of more than 127 physical volumes.

  Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 adds the following cross-platform features:

  • Support for IBM AIX 7.1 (POWER).
  • Support for Oracle Solaris 11 (x86 and SPARC).

  Note The new agents for IBM AIX 7.1 and Oracle Solaris 11 are included in Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2. You can download the management packs for these new operating system versions by going to the following Microsoft website:

  System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Monitoring Management Packs            (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b15fef5c-e331-4006-8913-be376bb0e0c1)       
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  Custom Report Documentation Available
  Adrian Doyle Microsoft employee Monday, December 13, 2010 8:45 PM

  This is available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg508710.aspx and covers the following:

   

  Custom Reporting Overview

  Setting Up the Environment

  Creating Custom Reports

  Data Warehouse Schema

  Inside a Generic Report

  Custom Report Queries

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  Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 (KB2750631)
  Alexey Zhuravlev - G14 MVP Saturday, October 13, 2012 7:25 AM

  Update Rollup 3 for System Center Operations Manager 2012 (KB2750631)

  Issue 1
  When you use the 32-bit version of Windows Internet Explorer to start a web console, the Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Presentation.Controls.SpeedometerGaugeUIController controller does not work correctly.
  Issue 2
  When you run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet, you receive the following error message:

  Get-BPAModel is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet.

  Issue 3
  When you try to change a URL in the "web application availability monitoring" template instance, the change is not applied.

  KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2756127/en-us

  Download link: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2750631

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  Looking to Create Event Monitors?
  Adrian Doyle MSFT Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:27 PM

  How to create a Simple Event Monitor - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309597.aspx

  How to create a Correlated Windows Event Unit Monitor - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb381298.aspx

  Detailed information on Event Monitors can be found at - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff629447.aspx

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  Troubleshooting Gray Agent or Management Server states in System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Essentials
  Adrian Doyle MSFT Monday, July 19, 2010 9:23 PM

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2288515 - please check this before posting on any grey Agent or MS issues.
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  Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (KB2783850)
  ScottMoss MVP Tuesday, April 23, 2013 3:31 AM

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2783850/en-us

  Issues that are fixed in Cumulative Update 7

  Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 fixes the following issues:

  • Console performs poorly when User Roles are used to scope object access.
  • Availability data is not shown for the current day when daily aggregation is used.
  • Behavior is inconsistent between some views on web console and console.
  • Log files do not roll over when the Unicode log file is monitored.
  • Several security issues are fixed.

  Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 fixes the following cross-platform issues:

  • Logical disk performance statistics are not collected for some volume types on Solaris computers.
  • Some Network Adapters on HP-UX computers may not be discovered.
  • Network adapter performance statistics are not collected for HP-UX network adapters.
  • The Solaris 8 and 9 agent may not restart after an ungraceful shutdown. 

  
  
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  Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper available for download
  Jeanie Decker Microsoft employee Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:06 PM

  Check out the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper.

  The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper is an interactive Excel document designed to assist you with planning & sizing deployments of Operations Manager 2007 R2. It helps you plan the correct amount of infrastructure needed for a new OpsMgr R2 deployment, removing the uncertainties in making IT hardware purchases and optimizes cost. A typical recommendation will include the recommended hardware specification for each server role, topology diagram and storage requirement. The Operations Manager Sizing Helper is most useful when used with the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Design Guide (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=184377).

  The Sizing Helper was previously available through the System Center Operations Manager blog.

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  Exchange 2010 MP Guidance
  Adrian Doyle MSFT Friday, August 19, 2011 2:40 PM

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2592561
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  Operations Manager 2007 Authoring Console prompts for Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library.mp version 6.1.7221.61 or later versions
  Adrian Doyle MSFT Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:28 PM

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2590414