Scott Moss at myITforum.com

System Center Virtual User Group Meeting #7 July 23rd Registration is Ready

smoss — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:56:00 GMT

The next System Center Virtual User Group meeting #7 will be July 23rd, 12 noon central start time. We have a great mix of Windows 2008 R2 hyper-V, monitoring Virtual Machines with Bridgeways products...(read more)

Management Pack University and MMS 2009 DVDs

smoss — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:35:00 GMT

Just got my MMS 2009 DVDs in the mail. Looking forward to seeing the sessions that I was double booked on! Also the Microsoft Technet web site now has Management Pack University. Check it out there is...(read more)

Atlanta SMUG - June 26, 2009

smoss — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:40:39 GMT

The Atlanta Southeast Management User Group invites you to attend the next SMUG meeting scheduled for June 26th, 2009 for a day of great presentations, discussions, and networking. Registration Link: http...(read more)

New OpsMgr Technet Forums!

smoss — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:05:00 GMT

Another update for the OpsMgr team, the old news group forums have moved to Technet Forums! http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager...(read more)

A few more Operations Manager 2007 Tools

smoss — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:37:27 GMT

Some tools that have been released recently that should be checked out. Notification Test Tool I've been waiting for this on, look forward to playing with it in the lab. http://blogs.technet.com/momteam...(read more)

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

smoss — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:29:00 GMT

Is available for download at this url. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e9f3cd3f-9bc0-45cd-b10f-120e937ee4c4 This management pack is only supported on the R2...(read more)

MP Viewer 1.7 and MP Studio Lite, not showing object discovery frequency in IIS 7 Management Pack

smoss — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:36:00 GMT

During a recent IIS 7 MP tune up, I noticed in MP Viewer 1.7 was only showing 6 discoveries with time frequencies, which seemed odd because I had just made overrides for more than 20 Object Discoveries...(read more)

Atlanta SMUG Meeting - June 26, 2006

smoss — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:36:02 GMT

Live Meeting Recording for System Center Virtual User Group Meeting #6 May 21nd, 2009

smoss — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:20:30 GMT

The Live Meeting Recording for System Center Virtual User Group Meeting #6 May 21nd, 2009 is available for download. Get it Here! Run Time: Steve Rachui (SCCM Topic) start to 50:43:00 break/poll/technical...(read more)

Operations Manager 2007 R2 has been RTMed!

smoss — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:36:32 GMT

Check out the R2 Web Site! http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/operationsmanager/en/us/default.aspx R2 can also be found on Connect. Have a great Memorial Day weekend!...(read more)

System Center Virtual User Group Meeting #6 May 21st Registration is Ready

smoss — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:22:00 GMT

The next System Center Virtual User Group meeting #6 will be May 21st, 12 noon central start time. We have a good mix of SCCM and Operations Manager presentations. Agenda (Central Time Zone) Presenter...(read more)

System Center Virtual User Group Meeting #6 May 21st (registration soon)

smoss — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:48:05 GMT

The next System Center Virtual User Group meeting #6 will be May 21st, 12 noon central start time. I'm in the process of confirming speakers so look for a good mix of Operations Manager and SCCM in...(read more)

MMS 2009 Round up

smoss — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:12:11 GMT

Another great Microsoft Management Summit. So many news items I'll try and sum it up in a few lines. Pre-MMS News: Visio Add-in for Operations Manager 2007 R2 beta, is available for download on connect...(read more)

PowerScripting Podcast

smoss — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:37:47 GMT

Not sure if I've ever brought up this or not on my blog so I'm going to drop it in today. I had the pleasure of sitting in on the recording of the PowerScripting Podcast 66th episode last week...(read more)

QFE update for OpsMgr 2007 IIS MP has been re-released

smoss — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:51:00 GMT

The QFE update for OpsMgr 2007 to support the IIS 7 MP ver 6.0.6539.0 has been re-released. This QFE hot fix should be deployed any RMS, Management Servers, Gateway Servers, and Manually installed agents...(read more)

Microsoft TechDays Defy All Challenges

smoss — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:23:00 GMT

On April 1st, 2009, Microsoft is putting on a free 24 hour virtual event covering developer-related topics. There will be 95 live sessions provided via Live Meeting in the following tracks: *Windows Development...(read more)

Operations Manager 2007 R2 Release Candidate available on Connect!

smoss — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:47:00 GMT

Just checked connect and Operations Manager R2 Release Candidate is available for download....(read more)

Dell OpsMgr Management Pack Version 3.1.1

smoss — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:37:00 GMT

An updated Dell MP was released this past Friday. Dell OpsMgr 2007 Management Pack Version 3.1.1 Some notes: Version A00 changes: - Dell Server and Printer Management Pack (Dell.Connections.001.mp) code...(read more)

System Center Virtual User Group Meeting #5 March 19th

smoss — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:20:00 GMT

The next System Center Virtual User group meeting #5 will be March 19th, 12 noon central time. We have a good mix of SCCM, DCM, Powershell and OpsMgr 2007, on with the agenda! Agenda (Central Time Zone...(read more)

SCOM cmdlet New-ManagementGroupConnection

smoss — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:24:00 GMT

How would one manage two different management groups from one PowerShell console? This is when you would need to use the two cmdlets New-ManagementGroupConnection and Set-Location. You have two different...(read more)

QFE update for OpsMgr 2007 IIS MP ver 6.0.6539.0 has been pulled

smoss — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:53:00 GMT

If you downloaded the QFE update yesterday, trash it. Microsoft is in the process updating the QFE hotfix for OpsMgr 2007 that was released for the IIS MP. I'll update with a new post when the updated...(read more)

Windows Server Internet Information Services for System Center Operations Manager 2007 ver 6.0.6539.0 Released!

smoss — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:53:14 GMT

Prior to installing this IIS MP deploy this QFE update to the RMS, Management Servers, Gateway Servers, and manually installed agents. QFE UPDATE Windows Server Internet Information Services for System...(read more)

Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 ver 6.0.6520.0

smoss — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:47:51 GMT

I could comment on how long some companies have been waiting on this to be released, but.. Looking forward to playing with this in the lab. Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista Operating System Management Pack...(read more)

Windows Server Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 ver 6.0.6505.0 (windows 2003 and 2008)

smoss — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:50:00 GMT

This MP has both windows 2003 and windows 2008 clusters covered. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AC7F42F5-33E9-453D-A923-171C8E1E8E55&displaylang=en&displaylang=en...(read more)

More get-alert IsMonitorAlert powershell one liners for SCOM

smoss — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:46:00 GMT

Here are some more handy powershell one liners that will get a count, a report or resolve alerts that were generated by rules in their various Severity states, informational, warning, and critical. The...(read more)

SMUG Presentation February 3rd 2009: Administrative uses of Powershell in OpsMgr 2007

smoss — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:22:00 GMT

The following are examples I demonstrated to show how easy and powerful PowerShell is to use with Operations Manager 2007. Powershell House Keeping: ========================= Update-Gac.ps1 only has to...(read more)

Operations Manager 2007 MP Quality Survey: Feedback Time!

smoss — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:35:30 GMT

This is an Operations Manager 2007 MP Quality Survey. Its pretty quick and painless, and the feedback from the user community is needed. Pete Zerger put this together. http://www.systemcenterforum.org...(read more)

OpsMgr 2007: Antivirus software may cause script failures in Operations Manager 2007

smoss — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:54:00 GMT

See this blog post for more details. For those of you who did not get a chance to deal with anti-virus problems in MOM 2005, now is your chance with anti-virus problems with OpsMgr 2007! http://blogs.technet...(read more)

Southeast Management User Group (SMUG) Meeting February 3 2009

smoss — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:38:00 GMT

The Agenda Presenter Subject Start End Breakfast/Meet and Greet 8:30 am 9:00 am Scott Moss Introduction 9:00 am 9:15 am Mark Mears SMS Collection Security Management 9:15 am 9:35 am Joe Crawford Upgrading...(read more)

Operations Manager Utility: GreenMachine

smoss — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:10:00 GMT

Tim Helton created a new Operations Manager utility GreenMachine, that can be used to reset or recalculate all monitors for a single agent, or for all agents in your management group. This is a command...(read more)