Where did all the posts go?
on Dec 18, 2008Many of us are beginning to pack things up and head out for the holidays so I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I'm doing the same.  I'm going to be out until January 5th so if the posts start to dry up then that's proba

OpsMgr by Example: Agent Deployment using ConfigMgr
on Dec 18, 2008 in OpsMgr Deployment Client Agent Looks like there's a new installment in the OpsMgr by Example series over at http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/Blog/ and this time they take a look at deploying agents using ConfigMgr 2007.  I have the intro and a direct link below: ========

OpsMgr 2007: Tips on installing the Web Console component on Windows Server 2008
on Dec 18, 2008 in Console OpsMgr IIS The OpsMgr product team just posted some good notes on getting the Web Console component installed on Windows Server 2008.  If you're struggling getting this to work then check out there post here for the requirements and a related hotfix.

Tips for installing clients to Windows SteadyState PCs
on Dec 17, 2008We've received a couple calls on this so I thought a quick post might help just in case you're using Windows SteadyState in your environment.  Anjana Kaku Tyagi wrote up the example below, and while the example is for the SMS client you

OpsMgr 2007: Disk space monitoring of SQL DB file does not trigger an alert if DB is set to Autogrow
on Dec 16, 2008 in Alert Database OpsMgr Troubleshoot Here's an interesting issue that was sent to me by Rohit Kaul on our OpsMgr 2007 team.  This one concerns an issue where the disk space monitoring of a SQL database file does not trigger an alert if the database is set to Autogrow: ========

New Knowledge Base articles for 12-7 through 12-13
on Dec 15, 2008 in OpsMgr KB Article For the week of 12-7 through 12-13 we had two new Knowledge Base articles for OpsMgr 2007.  Links and titles are below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=957135 You cannot change the alert resolution state of any alert in the Act.

OpsMgr 2007: How to make ACS work on port other then the default
on Dec 11, 2008 in Audit Collection Services OpsMgr   Here's an interesting tip sent to me by Milan Jajal on how to make ACS work on a port other than the default.  I don't know how often something like this would be necessary but just in case you need it here are the steps: ===