Â
Simon Skinner MVP has been in the computer industry since the early 1990's. Starting out as a programmer in VB, he developed stock control systems for haulage companies. From there he moved into networking and gained a high level of experience and expertise, designing and building web and server farms for increasingly larger organisations.
Aware of its increasing importance in the new millennium, Simon turned his attention to System Management with Microsoft SMS and MS MOM. This today is where Simon’s real talent is although evolving to System Centre Operations Manager 2007.
Simon has worked with Microsoft demonstrating, planning and deploying SCOM to clients in the UK and France. After starting SecQuorum in early 2006 the company’s core services is with SCOM. We adopted SCOM 2007 in a hosted environment in early 2006 and the service has gone from strength, offering monitoring solutions in various mode to suite most companies.
Rank (0) Views 26 On , 18 hours ago By Simon Skinner
Marco, the reporting in 2008 is really different to 2005. AddWebConfigAppSettingCA is an error with the web Config file. I would backup the DB then remove SQL 2005 replace with SQL 2008. Remove the reporting then restore the DB's back into SQL 2008 clean
Rank (0) Views 24 On , 18 hours ago By Simon Skinner
AviCode has intercept studio, Quest has FogLight. Both are the same and written by AviCode. Although it is an expensive program this has to judged by the need. I have installed AviCode products alot and the client got a good ROI on the investment. It is n
Rank (0) Views 30 On , 1 day 5 hours ago By Simon Skinner
You can run sc config storflt start= disabled. Also check that you have a 64bit driver and not a 32bit driver
Rank (0) Views 26 On , 1 day 10 hours ago By Simon Skinner
Sowhen you create your DB you can leave the Database and the Logs in the default size as the SQL will deal with it. The follow the advice in these links for the maintenance of the DBWH. http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/7698
Rank (0) Views 24 On , 1 day 10 hours ago By Simon Skinner
wow, read that wrong. Yes DB is set to Auto Grow so will and set to Full so you can backup the logs. There is a good doc on this which I will go and get.
In fact SQL 2008 R2 is not supported in the current version of Ops Mgr.
Rank (167) Views 169 On , 1 day 11 hours ago By Simon Skinner
Just a quick tip, if you are using SCCM 2007 on a Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 servers after the install of SCCM you install the WSUS via the Service Manager Roles then you may get the following error. Where it’s states “Your site or client package has been u
Rank (177) Views 181 On , 3 days ago By Simon Skinner
TechNet Blogs > The App-V Blog > Solution: A virtualized application on a Microsoft App-V client fails to launch with Error Code: 2A-00002AF9 Comments 0 Just an FYI on a new Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Knowledge Base article we published
Rank (3) Views 60 On , 5 days ago By Simon Skinner
Here is my very Basic MP for Windows 2003/XP Security, Tommy can you help me out here with the link to yours which is a better quality 2008/Vista MP?
Rank (3) Views 77 On , 5 days ago By Simon Skinner
Tommy, you are right it stops short of doing anything useful. The leap to the full product whilst I rate as an exceptional product is a big leap.
Rank (3) Views 74 On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 6:32 AM, 5 days ago By Simon Skinner
To be honest I would use Tommy's AD and Security MP, I will get the link for you in a minute, the overheads will be less and there is no need for an addtional Database, servers or Ports.
Rank (3) Views 66 On , 5 days ago By Simon Skinner
To follow on from Pete, if you have a Forest with Child domains then this is a fairly straight forward thing but it is possible to discover outside of the Forest but you need WINS or a Central Server with Multi Primary server, Secondarys with but work as
Rank (2) Views 85 On , 5 days ago By Simon Skinner
Just to add the the number of the cert is reversed in the registry
Rank (3) Views 58 On , 5 days ago By Simon Skinner
You need to run the asp.net file the server. This is a OEM cut down version of the AVIcode product and will give you a basic view of your sites. The file is in the 'HelperObject' on the CD/DVD for Operations Manager, these will create a MP within the cons
Rank (3) Views 162 On , 16 days ago By Simon Skinner
OK, can the users that you are trying to get to logon to the OpsMgr console and web console can they logon to the Server hosting OpsMgr? Are there restricted to what machine they can logon to via AD? Are they listed in the Local User group unders Domain U
Rank (3) Views 85 On , 17 days ago By Simon Skinner
Odd, I agree that they may go into the Personal file and not the Computer folder. Can you export the certs to your desktop then import them direct into the computer folder?
Rank (4) Views 106 On , 17 days ago By Simon Skinner
Have a lookat this to see if you missed any steps? http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexId/12977/Default.aspx
Rank (3) Views 161 On , 17 days ago By Simon Skinner
So the users are in the Operations User Role in the Operations Manager console, and I guess they can use the Operation Manager Console. So are you using the Domain\Username format? Can an Administrator of the Operations Manager server logon?
Rank (3) Views 114 On , 17 days ago By Simon Skinner
Can you tell us which version of the Exchange MP you have? Also have a look at this article http://blogs.technet.com/b/cliveeastwood/archive/2008/03/19/operations-manager-2007-exchange-2003-management-pack-refresh-6-0-6278-2.aspx
Rank (4) Views 105 On , 17 days ago By Simon Skinner
Kent is, of course correct, this is need to be here when you update the Schema for SCCM. But your Domain Admin could give you rights to this folder. However after the Schema has been extended I see little reason why you would need to revisit the System Ma