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The newsgroup for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 (RC0) is now live for our customers that will be installing the RC (bits coming very soon).

 Microsoft.public.opsmgr.sp1

 Thank you,

-Justin

Want to get a better understanding of how to architect, deploy, administer, and operate Operations Manager 2007? Walk through this online course designed to help you get ramped on using Operations Manager 2007.

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Webcasts on TechNet videos are complete.  We have 25 total covering a broad range of topics from configuring Active Directory Integration, to the Operations Manager Command Shell, to Using the Reporting Space.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/opsmgr/webcasts.mspx

The Operations Manager 2007 newsgroups are now active on msnews.microsoft.com.  If you are currently subscribing to the microsoft.public.mom.* newsgroups (MOM 2005) simply add the following subscriptions to your preferred reader.

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.acs

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.ad

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.aem

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.authoring

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.docs

Microsoft.public.opsgmr.exchange

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.general

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.iis

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.managementpacks

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.powershell

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.reporting

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.sdk

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.setup

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.sql

Microsoft.public.opsmgr.ui

Thanks,

-Justin

If you have been using System Center Operations Manager 2007 you have most likely seen the "Key Concepts & How-to Videos" throughout the UI.  There are 3 available today and about 25 total by RTM.  You can view these by clicking the links from the Operations Manager Console or visit the 'landing page' on TechNet.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/opsmgr/webcasts.mspx

Management Pack Catalog

Find software you need to optimize Operations Manager with other applications. You will find:

• Downloadable management packs created by Microsoft
• Information about software provided by Microsoft Partners

Use the Management Pack Notifier to notify you of updates to your previously installed management packs, making it easier for you to keep up with the most current release of over 200 management packs. Many of the management packs have been localized in multiple languages.

Alternatively users can subscribe to the Microsoft Operations Manager RSS Catalog Feed and be notified via email when a new Management Pack update is available. More information on using and subscribing to RSS feeds can be found at the Microsoft Office Online page located here.

This guide provides information about the Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Management Pack, including monitoring scenarios, deployment steps, and technical reference.

November 14, 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/mom2005/library/97a5ab56-85b1-4b0d-85f6-958f553f9ef1.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=53AE834A-7369-4655-82E5-1C2563CEC677&displaylang=en

Overview

The Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Management Pack monitors performance, health and availability of Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster 2003 (CCS) versions 1.0 and later. This management pack includes rules that monitor critical CCS services, capture operational errors, and collect important cluster performance counters. By alerting on critical operational issues, this Management Pack highlights problems with the Windows compute cluster early so administrators can take action quickly. And by collecting and providing views of important performance counters, this Management Pack increases the ability of cluster administrators to monitor cluster performance.

Feature Bullet Summary:

This Management Pack includes the following functionalities:

• Capturing critical system and application events and errors.
• Monitoring Compute Cluster Pack services and alerting on service outages.
• Monitoring overall compute cluster metrics such as statistics on jobs, tasks, nodes, and processors.
• Reporting of compute cluster statistics and alert history.

Release History:

11/14/2006 Release published

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E5C79691-62C8-4087-A906-25AE3E1AE867&mg_id=10050&displaylang=en

Overview

We were kicking around the idea of having an RSS feed for the MP catalog.  You can subscribe to the feed using the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/rss/momrss.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/scshell/

For those of you interested in the OM PowerShell, this is a good blog.

The "Microsoft Windows DHCP Service Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005" management pack has been updated (.3500).

Get it here:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C66E88A9-5960-4329-BF6D-F5CA05EFD8B5&displaylang=en

What's new?  Read the "Management Pack Release History"

Management Pack Release History:

05/08/2006 Updated reports to support SQL 2005 Reporting Services.

10/26/2006 Management Pack updated, support added for SQL 2005 Reporting and fix included to address “Not Authorized” alerts for Windows 2000 DHCP Servers.

-Justin Incarnato

For some reason the "Microsoft Windows Desktop Base Operating Systems Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005" has gone missing from the MOM Management Pack Catalog.

A query for "Desktop" for example should give you the "Microsoft Windows Desktop Base Operating Systems Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005" management pack.  We are working on getting this MP back onto our catalog site.  If you need it now, you can get it HERE.

-Justin Incarnato

The ISA Server MP download page had incorrectly listed "2.0" as the version of the management pack as opposed to "05.0.5720.0001".  I had the page updated today to reflect the actual version of the MP included in the .msi package.  While I was at it, I had the MOMNotifier.xml updated as well for those of you who are using the MP Notifier management pack.  The update to the download page was cosmetic only, no changes were made to the management pack.

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, 2004, and 2006 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F6515332-E72F-4860-AF02-983A95501452&displaylang=en

Microsoft Management Pack Notifier for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a24cea3a-1920-4b18-8cf2-8bf78c94c917&DisplayLang=en

There seems to be some confusion lately around the MOM Management Pack Catalog entry when you query for "SQL".  You'll see that the results returned contain an entry for "International versions of SQL Server 2000, 2005".  This is where you can download the English as well as localized versions of the SQL management pack. 

I had the text updated to "US and International versions of SQL Server 2000, 2005" to avoid confusion.  Thanks to Brian Hunneycutt and Renee Geffre (MOM CPR) who sent me this idea.

For those of you who would like to go to the download for the SQL MP directly, it is here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79F151C7-4D98-4C2B-BF72-EC2B4AE69191&displaylang=en