During a recent discussion on OpsMgr 2007 R2 environments, I was told that OpsMgr subscriptions do not fire for sub-group members. I decided to test this and see if this works the same way in OpsMgr 2012. To test this I created a total of three grou ...[Read more]

Background: Operations Manager has a feature which alerts which a monitor has exceeded a certain threshold for processor utilization and processor queue. If you use Health Explorer you can see what processes were occurring when the processor went to ...[Read more]

Problem: We have legacy Alert Generating Event Collection rules that legitimately create alerts so that a particular group gets notified of changes to security accounts and groups in Active Directory.  In hind sight they should have been TIMER RESET ...[Read more]

Summary: Operator role and higher (operator, advanced operator, and administrator) should be able to put systems into maintenance mode. My testing: For due diligence I tested this in my lab environment as well for the Administrator role, Operator R ...[Read more]

This is one of the most common questions I have received over the years supporting Operations Manager and my general approach has been to include an Operations Manager (OpsMgr) administrator in all subscriptions and use unique channels per subscript ...[Read more]

Operations Manager 2007: The default location in OpsMgr 2007 for Management Servers is: \Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Health Service State The default location in OpsMgr 2007 for Agents is: \Program Files\System Center Opera ...[Read more]

Issue: Somehow in my lab environment I ended up with an agent which was both Agent Monitored and Agentless monitored. This was causing issues with my management server (causing it to go grey) and whenever I flushed the health state and restarted ser ...[Read more]

If you have an environment where you have upgraded to CU5 but you have manually installed agents the process to upgrade to CU5 is intensive. If your manually installed agents are NOT as a result of network communication restrictions, this approach i ...[Read more]

“Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 offers significant new functionality, including enhanced network monitoring and application performance monitoring, as well as architectural changes to remove the root management server and to add man ...[Read more]

The following are a set of some of the FAQ’s I’ve been asked recently about how licenses are handled in System Center 2012.   Question: In OpsMgr how can I tell if I am running the evaluation version or a licensed version? Answer: Ope ...[Read more]