Archive for October, 2007

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Edit Company Knowledge

Posted: 26th October 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007

If you have tried edit Company Knowledge you have most probable recived a popup telling you “Visual Studio Tools For Office runtime is not installed“. To cure this you can download Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Runtime here.  After that you will recive a popup telling you “Failed to launch Microsoft [...]

Generate alert from your critical clients

Posted: 26th October 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007

In the ”Windows Client Operating System Management Pack Guide for Operations Manager 2007″ you can read about monitoring Business Critical Clients. But even if you import this management pack, and add your business critical workstation to the “All Business Critical Windows Critical” group you will not get an alert when the workstation are unreachable for example disconnected [...]

How do I respond to a logfile?

Posted: 23rd October 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007

Today I saw a question about reponse on a logfile monitor, as there is no “Diagnostic and recovery” tab on a log file monitor. A solution to this is to use a rule instead. If you create a Alert Generating Rules/Event Based/Generic Text Log(Alert) rule, then right-click it and choose properties, you can add a response on the Configuration [...]

drivel: Contoso.se in a Microsoft White Paper

Posted: 19th October 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in Uncategorized

I just found a funny thing, my domain (contoso.se) in a Microsoft White Paper about Exchange 2007, here. As most of you know Contoso is used by Microsoft in almost all it pro literature, but I have never seen Contoso.se before. You can read about the Contoso company here.

MPViewer 1.1

Posted: 13th October 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007

Boris Yanushpolsky a member of the System Center Operations team at Microsoft has upload a new version of MPViewer to his blog. This tool can help you show the following contents of a management pack: Rules, Monitors, Views, Tasks, Console Tasks, and Reports. Download this tool here.

ACS Forwarder Failover – part 2

Posted: 6th October 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007

I couple of days ago I posted about ACS and failover. As I wrote there is no failover back to the first ACS collector. If your ACS forwarder failover to a second ACS collector your will have your ACS forwarder data in two databases, as there is a one-to-one relationship between ACS databases and ACS [...]

I saw some public information about the 71-400: TS: Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager, Configuring exam today. Beta exam period runs between October 4 2007 and October 26 2007 so hurry up! You can read more about the exam here