September 03 2010 8:45 PM

Digging deeper into the Windows Server management pack: Tuning the Total Percentage Interrupt Time is too high monitor

The “Total Percentage Interrupt Time is too high” monitor was generating a significant number of alerts on a specific system in our environment. The server causing issues was a backup server which has local and remotely connected backup components which

September 01 2010 6:52 PM

Editing Company Knowledge - stopped working

We started receiving this message recently on one of our Operations Manager administrator consoles. The message came from a system where this has previously been working. The message was “Failed to launch Microsoft Word. Please make sure Microsoft Word i

August 31 2010 6:17 PM

OpsMgr Console server - werfault*32 errors on Server 2008 R2

Recently I started seeing performance issues on one of my servers which is commonly used to run the Operations Manager 2007 R2 console. We experience occasional crashes, so I was not surprised that it was launching WerFault.exe *32 but I was surprised wh

August 29 2010 3:37 PM

Post-of-the-Week: How can I quantify changes in OpsMgr data warehouse retention?

The fifth winner in our post-of-the-week contest (week ending Aug 14th) is OpsMgr MVP and Unleashed series author Cameron Fuller who provided a great tip on how to assess the impact of any change you make to the data retention periods in your OpsMgr 2007

August 25 2010 6:28 PM

Scheduling a custom rule to run during specific hours – without a degree in XML

In MOM 2005 it was pretty straightforward to create a rule which would occur only during specific hours of the day. With Operations Manager 2007 this became a lot more complex to accomplish. There are some great discussions out there about how to add sch

August 18 2010 12:50 PM

Community Knowledge is one step closer to full Operations Manager citizenship

This has been a very long road… I have email threads back more than two years ago when I started working on how to develop a community knowledge repository for Operations Manager (and MOM 2005). I was just notified that effective today, ReSearchThis! has

August 16 2010 6:54 PM

QuickTricks – Last Agent Heartbeat?

Question: In MOM 2005 I had a view where I could see the last time that an agent had sent a heartbeat. Where can I find this in Operations Manager? The key reason for this most often is a requirement to determine what agents are not heartbeating correctl

August 16 2010 5:06 PM

ReSearchThis! KB - Percentage Change in DB % Used Space Alert

Alert:Percentage Change in DB % Used Space Issue:This alert is raised when significant changes in the percentage of the space used in a database has changed quickly. This alert is raised as a critical condition which indicates a database may be in a crit

August 12 2010 8:46 PM

Changing the OpsMgr Data Warehouse retention periods & Using reports to assess impacts to Data Warehouse sizing

One of the requirements for an environment I am working with was to be able to provide performance information for more than a two year period of time. By default, the grooming interval for performance data in Operations Manager is 400 days. To change fo

August 12 2010 6:59 PM

Updated the Master List of System Center PowerShell Scripts

I just added a few scripts to the “PowerShell Scripts for System Center (Master Collection)’ page here on the site. I am included an (added date) by new scripts so you know which have been added recently. If you’ve not seen the page before, I basically h