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 02 2010 5:30 PM

Windows Server Operating System management pack for OpsMgr 2007 missing disk corruption check?

We recently found that a server in our environment was experiencing disk corrupt issues but we were not being notified of the condition by Operations Manager. Digging into the Operating System management pack, there is a rule (NTFS – File System Corrupt)

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 27 2010 6:26 PM

Server 2008 R2 – No Compressed Virtuals for you!

I’ve been an advocate of compressing VHD files for a long time now. As examples, I wrote an blog entry on “Compression and Creating Clusters in Virtual Server” and another on “Compressing Virtuals”. These have also been referenced in other blog entries s

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 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 11 2010 6:18 PM

Digging deeper into the Exchange 2007 MP: Tuning the Failure DSNs total alert

When working through some Exchange 2007 alerts, I ran across the “Failure DSNs total” alert. I’ve seen this in previous versions of the management pack and the indications were that since this was a continually increasing value it did not provide a relev