September 03 2010 8:45 PM

Digging deeper into the Windows Server management pack: Tuning the Total Percentage Interrupt Time is too high monitor

The “Total Percentage Interrupt Time is too high” monitor was generating a significant number of alerts on a specific system in our environment. The server causing issues was a backup server which has local and remotely connected backup components which

September 03 2010 12:35 PM

MonitoringHost.exe taking up all memory on RMS with Exchange 2010 MP

(SCOM 2007 R2) We have the exchange 2010 Management Pack installed with the Exchange Correlation engine installed on the RMS and while running, the MonitoringHost.exe will (at no specific point in time) consume all remaining memory ultimately rendering th

September 02 2010 5:30 PM

Windows Server Operating System management pack for OpsMgr 2007 missing disk corruption check?

We recently found that a server in our environment was experiencing disk corrupt issues but we were not being notified of the condition by Operations Manager. Digging into the Operating System management pack, there is a rule (NTFS – File System Corrupt)

September 02 2010 10:21 AM

Quick tip for WSUS in SCCM

Just a quick tip, if you are using SCCM 2007 on a Windows 2008 or 2008 R2 servers after the install of SCCM you install the WSUS via the Service Manager Roles then you may get the following error. Where it’s states “Your site or client package has been u

September 02 2010 4:26 AM

Group Criteria: Excluding Members of a different Group

I had some problems getting my head around this one but it's actually a pretty simple Expression

September 01 2010 6:52 PM

Editing Company Knowledge - stopped working

We started receiving this message recently on one of our Operations Manager administrator consoles. The message came from a system where this has previously been working. The message was “Failed to launch Microsoft Word. Please make sure Microsoft Word i

September 01 2010 6:20 PM

PowerShell Tip: Unseal Multiple OpsMgr Management Pack Files WITHOUT a Live Management Group

Here’s a handy PowerShell script I put together a couple of years ago with some SDK magic I learned from MOW. The following PowerShell script will unseal multiple sealed management pack files (.mp files) in a directory structure and output the unsealed x

August 31 2010 6:17 PM

OpsMgr Console server - werfault*32 errors on Server 2008 R2

Recently I started seeing performance issues on one of my servers which is commonly used to run the Operations Manager 2007 R2 console. We experience occasional crashes, so I was not surprised that it was launching WerFault.exe *32 but I was surprised wh

August 31 2010 10:52 AM

Solution: A virtualized application on a Microsoft App-V client fails to launch with Error Code: 2A-00002AF9

TechNet Blogs > The App-V Blog > Solution: A virtualized application on a Microsoft App-V client fails to launch with Error Code: 2A-00002AF9 Comments 0 Just an FYI on a new Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Knowledge Base article we published

August 30 2010 5:41 PM

Post-of-the-Week: A battery of ConfigMgr 2007 Patch Mgmt Questions...

The sixth winner in our post-of-the-week contest (week ending Aug 21th) is Kelly Hansen (aka BadKitty) for her on-target answers to a battery of ConfigMgr 2007 questions in this forum thread. The questions Bryan asked included: 1. How can I ensure laptop