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....

Our organization was migrated from Microsoft BPOS to Office 365 this weekend. The transition was very straightforward. A few employees, including myself ran into an issue with the configuration of Office 365 Desktop applications however after the migrati...

Good news, the new SCOM 2012 tools have been released! The Operations Manager product group has done a GREAT job on some of the new Authoring Tools and they released them in line with the release of the product. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/c...

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Having been a paid BPOS subscriber for the last 2 years I have had a number of experiences that I would like to share to help others thinking about making the move to Microsoft’s cloud offering consider as a part of their decision: - Microsoft will allow...

If you work with Management Packs in SCOM, you will likely run into the following issue at some point. You attempt to open the Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.DefaultUser.xml file in the SCOM Authoring console only to get the following error. Wh...

If you are looking to monitor your SCCM 2012 beta environment with SCOM 2007 R2 or 2012, have a look at https://connect.microsoft.com/ConfigurationManagervnext/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=39532. Have fun with System Center! Rory McCaw www.i...

As a Microsoft Online customer and a partner that sells, installs and supports MS Online services, it’s always a pain to run into problems with hosted services, particularly when you are a user of the service yourself. This week was one of those weeks an...

Finding Microsoft Management Packs is from time to time increasingly frustrating. Even google can’t keep up with the numerous changes that Microsoft has made in the last 24 months around where they are going to be posting MPs. If you are struggling to fi...

MMS is a great event. IMO, it’s the best Microsoft event of the year (next to the MVP summit) but it can be daunting and lonely if you are new to the community and don’t know anyone upon arrival. I have been coming to MMS now since 1994 and have been a s...