Cameron Fuller

Cameron is a principal consultant for Catapult Systems. A Microsoft MVP (SCOM), Cameron blogs about infrastructure topics including SCOM, virtualization, Exchange and Active Directory. Cameron is a MCTS for SCOM and SCCM.
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Apr15

OpsMgr R2 RC, Process Monitoring, Conference Rooms

A while back we built out some conference room kiosk’s (discussed at http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1509.entry) which display the status of a conference room using an Outlook Web Access calendar. We have run into issues where the connection to the OWA server would be lost and/or when other issues would occur which would cause these to stop functioning. To address...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on Wednesday, 15 Apr 2009 10:47.
0 Comments | Categories: OpsMgr and MOM

 
Apr10

SQL Server, Multiple Forests without Two-Way Trusts, SQL Jobs Failing

We ran into a situation where SQL jobs started failing on a SQL server in a DMZ domain seemingly out of the blue. As background, we have a situation where: Domain-A trusts Domain-B, but Domain-B doesn’t trust Domain-A (This is common in a DMZ configuration) SQL Server is installed on a Domain-A machine (This is not that common, but it is possible) The SQL Server (and agent jobs) service...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on Friday, 10 Apr 2009 10:46.
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Apr6

QuickTricks: OpsMgr Service Names

There are new service names in the R2 version of OpsMgr. The following is the mapping of the new R2 service names and what they map to for the RTM/SP1 version: OpsMgr RC2 Service Name OpsMgr RTM & SP1 Name System Center Data Access OpsMgr SDK Service System Center Management OpsMgr Health Service System Center Management Configuration OpsMgr Config Service...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on Monday, 6 Apr 2009 10:45.
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Apr2

QuickTricks: Where are the agent install logs?

While doing a test deployment on the upcoming OpsMgr R2 release I was debugging why some of my agents were not deploying and I couldn’t find my agent installation logs to see what was causing the issue. These are created on the management server which the agent will be reporting to. So as an example, I have an RMS (Root Management Server), MS1 (Management Server), MS2, GW1 (Gateway Server), and...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on Thursday, 2 Apr 2009 10:45.
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