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May 2008 - Posts

Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:31 PM

Heartbeat detection in OpsMgr 2007

A questionc came up today regarding heartbeating in OpsMgr 2007 - specifically, whether we can easily group systems and deliver missing heartbeat notifications based on specific computers and teams that manage those computers. The answer is yes - but
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Monday, May 12, 2008 7:10 AM

To obsolete or not to obsolete

I wrote a blog post a while back detailing heartbeat discovery in SMS 2003.... http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2006/08/03/687874.aspx The information in that blog post equally applies to ConfigMgr. Heartbeat discovery is critical for SMS and ConfigMgr
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Monday, May 12, 2008 7:07 AM

OpsMgr Vista Gadget

Trying to track down that problem with a System Center product but don't know where to look? A Vista gadget has been created to search specific sites for help instead of the entire web. The gadget is a must for every System Center administrator! Download
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Monday, May 12, 2008 7:01 AM

OpsMgr 2007 Security Hardening Guide

Security seems to be a common stumbling block - particularly for those who need to harden security beyond what we provide in the default setup. The Security Hardening Guide has just released and is a great reference for those of you in the security trenches!
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Monday, May 12, 2008 6:53 AM

OpsMgr Authoring Console has released!

We've been working with the release candidate for a while - the official release has recently been posted - download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6C8911C3-C495-4A03-96DF-9731C37AA6D7&displaylang=en I've also been working
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Monday, May 12, 2008 6:45 AM

Service Level Dashboard for OpsMgr 2007 now in beta!

Looking for a single view into your OpsMgr environment that will allow near real time end-to-end reporting of performance and availability for LOB apps? The Service Level Dashboard is your solution - currently in beta, this solution accelerator can be
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:08 AM

OpsMgr cross-platform extender

At MMS this week we announced the pending release (currently beta) of the cross platform extender. This addition will allow OpsMgr to NATIVELY provide monitoring support for heterogenous environments (unix, linux). There are many details to digest but
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