September 23 2009 7:24 PM

AlarmPoint Management Pack

Infront Consulting Group is about to release it’s AlarmPoint Management Pack. This is a Management Pack that Infront Consulting Group will be releasing for FREE. If this is something that your organization would be interested in, please contact sales[@]i...

September 23 2009 6:56 PM

Infront Consulting Group releases RightFax MP

Do you use SCOM in your organization? Are you interested in monitoring your RightFax servers with SCOM. Infront Consulting Group has just released their RightFax MP, a low cost Management Pack that provides insight into the health and availability of you...

September 23 2009 6:50 PM

Health Service Heartbeat Failure

Are you confused by the Knowledge text in the Health Service Heartbeat Failure alert in SCOM you aren’t alone. If I didn’t work with SCOM everyday, I wouldn’t have a clue as to what was meant by …navigate to the “State Change Events” tab. To get to the “...

August 17 2009 9:04 AM

Follow me on Twitter

Yes, I know I am late to the twitter game but I haven't cared much to know what someone is doing ever 5 minutes, that sounds like stalking. I will be starting to post so useful tweets so jump on board. http://twitter.com/rorymccaw

August 17 2009 7:26 AM

New SystemCenterCentral.com registration contest!!!

Register at www.SystemCenterCentral.com and WIN!!! Become a new registered user (it’s free) at www.SystemCenterCentral.com and you get access to the online System Center community that covers ‘everything System Center’ and you will be entered into a draw...

July 06 2009 11:28 PM

Virtual Machine Performance Issues

I had some really bad performance issues today with VPC 2007 SP1 that I have not experienced before and I found that it had to do with the Virtualization bios setting. In the Dell XPS M1710 bios (v A07) that we are using on our mobile lab notebooks, if t...

July 05 2009 5:55 PM

Changes to Gateway Server Configuration in SCOM R2

I have been doing some work with Gateway Servers in SCOM R2, running on Windows Server 2008 and have noticed some key differences that I thought I would share. Let’s start with a look at what the high level steps are in configuring a Gateway management s...

June 23 2009 12:23 PM

SQL 2005 Installation Issues - Error 1706 Setup cannot find the required files

Installing SQL 2005 on a server with Office 2007 installed requires the Office 2003 web components be installed before your SQL installation will succeed.

May 28 2009 10:14 PM

Monitoring events written from a remote server with SCOM

Natively SCOM doesn't support the collection or alerting on events written to a server with a SCOM agent if the computer name is different from it's own computer name (even it agent proxying is enabled)

April 30 2009 6:20 PM

OpsMgr Unleashed Winners

As promised, we are drawing a winner from our registered users for a free copy of Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed from SAMS Publishing.