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Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:54 PM

Understanding Monitors in OpsMgr 2007 Part I – Unit Monitors

At MMS 2009 I presented a topic on understanding monitors in OpsMgr 2007.  According to the feedback, that session was well received so I thought I would convert some of it to a series of blog entries. There are two key ways of delivering monitoring
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Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:53 AM

Monitoring File Size with Custom WMI Performance Counter

Have you ever needed to monitor the size of a file to ensure you were alerted when it’s size changed beyond certain values?  I had to help address this recently and at first glance, this may seem to be a good job for a script – and a script definitely
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Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:21 AM

OpsMgr Agent Discovery Hanging after Enabling Broker Service?

When OpsMgr discovery hangs it’s because the SQL Broker service has not been enabled in the operationsmanager database.  Just a quick BING search will show you tons of hits about this issue – and I’ve never seen one case where this wasn’t the case
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Friday, August 28, 2009 5:21 AM

What ports REALLY need to be open for AMT in SCCM?

The question came up recently about what ports are really needed for AMT in SCCM.  The documentation ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632618.aspx ) indicates a list of ports that are used by AMT for various communication that takes
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Friday, August 21, 2009 6:03 AM

SCCM Unleashed is Unleashed

A bit of a self-servng post I suppose and I know I'm a bit late in posting this (couldn't decide if I would do it or not) but SCCM Unleashed has been published and it is a very complete book and an easy read. I served as tech reviewer for the book so
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