New MPViewer available over at Boris’ Blog

For those of you that don’t know about the MPViewer, it is a great Operations Manager tool for viewing Management Pack configuration. The new version can be found here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2008/06/03/mpviewer-1-5-performance-rules-and-monitors.aspx

Book: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed

So the UPS guy just dropped off this book to my house today, and I must say…. this beast of a book is exactly what I have been waiting to come out since Operations Manager 2007 was released. Just through a quick 15 minute browsing of the chapters I can already tell that it has [...]

Free Scheduled Tasks MP from Innovativ

Here is a link to a freely available MP that monitors Scheduled Tasks. In certain situations this can be very useful.
 http://www.inovativ.nl/pagina/downloads

Publish Reports to Sharepoint

Seems there is alot of good stuff on Operations Manager floating around lately. A how to guide on publishing reports to sharepoint can be found over on the Operations Manager product team blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/02/29/publish-reports-to-sharepoint.aspx

Report Authoring Guide for Operations Manager and Essentials 2007 is now available

I saw this posted over on www.systemcenterforum.org (a great System Center site by the way), and figured I would help spread the word. Report Authoring can get tricky, so it’s nice to finally have a guide available.
The Report Authoring Guide can be found here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OpsMgr2007_RprtGuide.doc.
Cheers! – Geoff

Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 is Now Available

Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to Operations Manager 2007 that addresses feedback from our customers. The high level themes of Operations Manager 2007 SP1 are to make the product easier to deploy, easier to use, and easier to support.
 The main Operations Manager SP1 page can be found here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/cc280350.aspx

XML Notepad

I just thought I would post a link to Microsoft’s free XML Notepad tool. I have found it very useful when parsing through XML files (in both SCCM and SCOM).
Handy features include:

Tree View synchronized with Node Text View for quick editing of node names and values.
Incremental search (Ctrl+I) in both tree and text views, so [...]

Monitoring VMWare ESX Server with OpsMgr 2007

I just got done going through a document that Jonathan Hambrook has posted over on his blog, and must say it is extremely useful. If you have the need to monitor VMWare ESX Server with OpsMgr 2007 and don’t know where to start, this how-to is definitely a great place to start! You can find the [...]

New System Center Catalog is live

 I saw this posted over at www.systemcenterforum.org:
The new System Center Catalog is live for SCOM 2007, SCE 2007, MOM 2005 and SCCM 2007. 
Here are the URL’s: 

All Products:  https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/catalog.aspx
Operations Manager 2007: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/opsmgr07.aspx
Operations Manager 2005:  https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/opsmgr05.aspx
Operations Manager 2000: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/opsmgr00.aspx
Configuration Manager 2007:  https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/configmgr07.aspx

System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 – RC1 is now available

You can find it here: http://connect.microsoft.com
If you aren’t already part of the beta connect group you will need to add it.
The new features that are in Operations Manager 2007 SP1 are:
·         Improved performance and reliability when working with alerts, overrides, and searches.
·         In all Alert views, performance has been increased through better fetching and [...]