February 24 2010 5:12 PM

Active Directory Management Pack and extremely high response times

Last week I solved a puzzle which was bugging me quite some time. The problem was the fact that the Active Directory Management pack was hard or impossible to control. And as with most annoying problems the solution was easy, well most solutions are easy

February 03 2010 3:31 PM

ReSearch This! KB - DNS 2008 Server External Addresses Resolution Alert

Alert: DNS 2008 Server External Addresses Resolution Alert Issue: The rule performs a DNS query of type “NS” (as provided in the Query Type parameter), which means the query is search for the name servers of the domain provided in the Host parameter. The

January 26 2010 3:02 PM

ReSearch This! KB - Health Service Unloaded System Rule(s)

Alert: Health Service Unloaded System Rule(s) Issue: Agents were reporting error number 7002 (The Health Service could not log on the RunAs account for management group because it has not been granted the ‘Log On Locally’ right. Agents were grey. There w

January 18 2010 3:11 PM

Tuning “A SQL job failed to complete successfully”

In Operations Manager 2007 R2, one of the most common alerts that I am running into is the “SQL job failed to complete successfully” alert which is part of the SQL server management pack. In one of our environments, the request was made to provide an aler

January 14 2010 9:16 PM

ReSearch This! KB - Root Management Server Unavailable

Alert: Root Management Server Unavailable Issue: We ran into an issue recently where we saw issues with most of our distributed applications changing to a grey state seemingly for no reason. After a little digging we determined that the RMS server itself

December 30 2009 12:43 AM

KB977574: Error message in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 report: “The Dundas chart for Reporting Services report item is unavailable"

Issue: This issue occurs because there is a change in the reporting services Web.config file after you upgrade from SQL Reporting Services 2005 to SQL Server Reporting Services 2008. The changes prevent charts from being displayed within Operations Manag

December 27 2009 12:23 AM

ConfigMgr: Recent KB articles for Configuration Manager 2007

Here are the KB articles for December I was just reading through: 976073 The Windows Deployment Service stops responding when you use a PXE service point on a computer that is running a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 site server (December 2

December 12 2009 3:44 PM

System.Performance.ConsecutiveSamplesThreshold monitor Gives a Wrong Alert Description

Why does the alertdescription for this monitor shows the incorrect value? First of all I tested this on both the R2 version as the SP1 version of System Center Operations Manager 2007 but the results are not the same. During testing this solution only

December 07 2009 7:13 PM

Operations Manager 2007 new KBs from KBAlertz Dec 6th

I like using KBAlertz. Its another handy web utility if your not using you should check it out. 976593 Error message when you use the SecureStorageBackup tool to restore encryption keys on a computer that is running Operations Manager 2007: "Invalid pass

November 16 2009 2:59 PM

ReSearch This! KB - DHCP Scope Addresses Available Monitor

Alert: DHCP Scope Addresses Available Monitor Issue: In an environment with two DHCP servers with the scope split we had one of the DHCP scopes that were completely empty while the other scope had only three addresses in use. We determined that the IP he