September 03 2010 12:35 PM

MonitoringHost.exe taking up all memory on RMS with Exchange 2010 MP

(SCOM 2007 R2) We have the exchange 2010 Management Pack installed with the Exchange Correlation engine installed on the RMS and while running, the MonitoringHost.exe will (at no specific point in time) consume all remaining memory ultimately rendering th

September 02 2010 4:26 AM

Group Criteria: Excluding Members of a different Group

I had some problems getting my head around this one but it's actually a pretty simple Expression

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

September 01 2010 6:20 PM

PowerShell Tip: Unseal Multiple OpsMgr Management Pack Files WITHOUT a Live Management Group

Here’s a handy PowerShell script I put together a couple of years ago with some SDK magic I learned from MOW. The following PowerShell script will unseal multiple sealed management pack files (.mp files) in a directory structure and output the unsealed x

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 30 2010 2:10 PM

Bug in ADMP for Windows Server 2008 – Alerts not generated for some Rules

Swiped this from Kevin Holman’s blog which has a pointer to Jimmy Harper’s Operations Manager Blog, so I’ll just give a direct link to Jimmy’s blog. There is a very recently discovered issue in the current ADMP (Version 6.0.7065.0). The Event log rules i

August 30 2010 10:25 AM

Update: Master List of System Center PowerShell Scripts

I just updated the master list with more great stuff from Tenchuu, Scott Moss, and Pete Z (thanks guys!). I’ve included the new scripts here. Remember you can find the complete list in this blog post (PowerShell Scripts for System Center (Master Collecti

August 30 2010 2:58 AM

PowerShell Tip: How to pass multiple values from a comma-separated file as inputs

I was recently working on some System Center-related PowerShell scripting and needed to pass multiple values from comma-separated list as inputs for a PowerShell script in which I needed to pass values into a couple of PowerShell functions. There is an e

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 28 2010 2:32 AM

MOMCertimport - ChannelCertificateSerialNumber on SCOM

I have a root management server on the local domain. I have two untrust domains. I used the cert-authentication. The two gateway servers are now on the management server list on the SCOM console. problem is that when I run certimport tool on the RMS i