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We are looking for a program manager to help extend the product's capabilities in the area of...
Date: 05/08/2009
One of the interesting challenges that I have seen some customers experience is understanding which...
Date: 04/28/2009
We have found a problem with the IIS Modules QFE and working on fixing it. In the meanwhile, the...
Date: 02/24/2009
In order for the IIS 7.0 MP to properly work, you will need to install an agent QFE which drops a...
Date: 02/23/2009
I have seen a number of questions on this in the past so I am happy to announce that we just...
Date: 02/12/2009
I just got a mail today from Marco Shaw about a great new blog authored by Daniele Grandini and...
Date: 01/21/2009
Discovery is a very core feature of a management pack. Bugs in discovery can literally screw up the...
Date: 12/19/2008
Groups are one of the most used areas of functionality in Operations Manager. When you are creating...
Date: 10/26/2008
If you are a partner or attended MMS or ITForum or work with OpsMgr for a while I am pretty sure you...
Date: 10/24/2008
I have heard the question about creating rules that execute only during a certain set of hours many...
Date: 09/19/2008
I saw an interesting question today on one of the newsgroups. Basically the question was "How can I...
Date: 09/12/2008
Thanks Stefan for reporting that MPViewer export to HTML functionality didn’t work with the latest...
Date: 06/24/2008
A while I wrote a blog entry about how you can automate the creation of URL monitoring logic in...
Date: 06/20/2008
This updated version of MPViewer will allow you to export data to Excel in addition to the HTML...
Date: 06/19/2008
In v1 of module explorer I enumerate code based modules and then populated the tree view with...
Date: 06/18/2008
Are you interested in participating in a private beta program for the Windows 2008 Cluster...
Date: 06/04/2008
A really useful feature of Health Explorer in Operations Manager is the ability to force the agent...
Date: 06/03/2008
I finally had a bit of time to work on improving MPViewer so here is a new a version. The main...
Date: 06/03/2008
The cross platform team has started a blog to talk about the work they are doing to enable...
Date: 05/05/2008
During the Best Practices session at MMS we have shown the DW properties report. The one thing I...
Date: 05/05/2008
Here is a script that I wrote last night to demonstrate how you can implement a simple MP backup...
Date: 04/30/2008
Several weeks ago we released an update to Windows 2003 Cluster MP to address several customer...
Date: 04/18/2008
Looks like there is some confusion as to the what exactly needs to be done in order to upgrade to...
Date: 04/04/2008
We have just posted an updated version of the Windows 2003 Cluster Management Pack. This update...
Date: 04/02/2008
One of the things that I have been wanting to cover in this blog is advanced MP authoring. Lately I...
Date: 03/31/2008
I recently saw an interesting mail thread about how does one figure out which MPs will work for...
Date: 03/25/2008
A number of people have asked for the SDK documentation to be downloadable in addition to being on...
Date: 03/13/2008
The long awaited cluster management pack for Windows 2003 is finally ready. The MP package contains...
Date: 03/04/2008
Attached is a script that takes a group and puts all the computers in the group (as well as the...
Date: 03/04/2008
While writing a management pack today, I came across an interesting issue. When you create an event...
Date: 02/28/2008
When you deploy a management pack and the action account is configured as a low priv account, some...
Date: 02/28/2008
One of the core concepts in OpsMgr is modules. There are four modules types in OpsMgr: DataSource,...
Date: 02/27/2008
Added another several small features in this version: 1 - The target of a rule/monitor 2 - The type...
Date: 01/31/2008
Sometimes after installing an agent or importing a management pack you may see event number 33333...
Date: 01/23/2008
Here is some sample code that I wanted to share for creating overrides using the SDK. In scenarios...
Date: 01/17/2008
Couple of days ago I saw a question on one of the newsgroups regarding creating a task where the...
Date: 12/11/2007
Couple of days ago I saw a question about how can one find out the list of manual reset event log...
Date: 12/08/2007
Below is a link to a targeting poster that we have created to help select the proper targets when...
Date: 11/27/2007
When creating a monitor or a rule for a multi instance component you need to be very careful or else...
Date: 11/21/2007
This question came up several times in various forums so I wanted to post a sample script that shows...
Date: 11/21/2007
One of the issues that we saw in OpsMgr RTM is that if you disabled a discovery using an override...
Date: 11/20/2007
Here is a sample that demonstrates how to create a performance collection rule using the SDK. The...
Date: 11/01/2007
When creating a NT service unit monitor, you might want to include in the alert description the...
Date: 10/31/2007
I added a couple of things that people have asked for: The ability to save to HTML. Looks like quite...
Date: 10/30/2007
Here is a script I put together that demonstrates how to retrieve all the groups and then retreive...
Date: 10/26/2007
Here is a sample of how you can create an event log unit monitor. As you can see it's very similar...
Date: 10/26/2007
This came up several times so I decided to write a blog post on how you can create a unit monitor...
Date: 10/26/2007
Given that groups are used for role based security, overrides, reports, and some other features, it...
Date: 10/26/2007
When creating a Event Log unit monitor, you might want to include in the alert description the event...
Date: 10/23/2007
When creating a Windows Performance Counter unit monitor, you might want to include in the alert...
Date: 10/19/2007