KB2626076 - Cumulative Update 6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is available If you haven’t updated your SCOM 2007 R2 environment in a while, consider taking a look at CU6. This CU provides some xplat features and a number of fixes to bugs....

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 groups: A...

This update rollup contains updates for the entire System Center 2012 family: Virtual Machine Manager Server Update (KB2663959) Virtual Machine Manager Console Update (KB2663960) Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal Update (KB2663961) App Controll...

If you're an Operations Manager administrator or an Orchestrator 2012 enthusiast, there are two utilities you have to check out… Cool Tool: New Command Line Utility to Start a Runbook -This utility is an OpsMgr administrators dream, enabling easy executi...

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 an u...

It’s here! Cumulative Update 6 contains a number of fixes for Operations Manager 2007 R2, as well as all of the fixes from Operations Manager 2007 R2 CU5. A number of fixes may require manual steps to install. Overview Cumulative Update 6 contains a numb...

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 even...

I am going to run through a quick 2-minute synopsis of a few of the most important Hyper-V features in Windows 8 Beta (now Windows Server 2012) for a customer, and thought I would share with the community at the same time. Below you’ll find a brief descr...

System Center 2012 Service Manager includes several product connectors for importing data into the CMDB automatically on a recurring basis with minimal effort. But what can you do when these connectors do not provide the configuration item (CI) data need...

This is an excerpt from an interesting infographic from bopdesign.com…check out the massive shift in less than 5 years!