PMM History PMM is the third offering from the Operations Center of Excellence. The first two were SLM - Service Level Management and DCM - Desired Configuration Monitor. PMM is in essence a MOM Tuning SKU, but the focus (just like the other two offerings...

I'm changing the focus of the blog somewhat. I recently accepted a new job at Microsoft. I'm now an Architect in the Operations Center of Excellence out of Redmond. This is the same team that created the Desired Configuration Monitor SKU (DCM) and the...

When I was typing the title of this article, my fat fingers made a Freudian slip that is pretty appropriate for this solution accelerator. The original title was "Notification WorkSlow Solution Accelerator". Once you finally get the thing installed, it...

If you commit changes after a rule change, the management server pushes the new rules at the next heartbeat interval. (By default this is set at every 10 seconds). If you don't commit changes, then the new rule is pushed on the next client configuration...

One thing that was unclear to me was the significance or use of the MOM event stream. Somehow I just didn't make the connection between the event stream, alerts, and rules. Our documentation didn't seem to make this clear to me, and it wasn't immediately...

One thing that was unclear to me was the significance or use of the MOM event stream. For instance, many of the MOM 2005 tasks that you launch from the MOM Operator's console do not display results directly to the operator console directly. For instance...

I ran into a problem today where when I set up discovery rules and forced a computer scan, I received a slew of Access Denied errors from computers that are part of the discovery rule. After much troubleshooting as to why the problem was occuring, I found...

I ran into an interesting question from one of my consultants today. He asked me how to determine the version number of the Management Pack that was currently running on a MOM 2000 SP1 server. To be honest, I don't think there is a way to do this. I normally...

So Computer Groups have changed between MOM 2000 and MOM 2005. In MOM 2000, the server itself was responsible for server discovery and Computer Groups in the UI showed which computers had been discovered and were populated in the Computer Group. In MOM...