The following URLs are provided in conjunction with the presentation made April 29, 2009 by Kerrie Meyler and Andy Dominey during MMS:

http://www.out-law.com/page-4464 – Forrester Research Consulting study on the cost of downtime

Backups:

• http://systemcenterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/UnsealedMPBackup.zip – Backup Unsealed Management Packs MP
• Backup script automating Operations Manager backups, available on companion CD to System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed under Chapter 12 content

Log Shipping:

• http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/04/12/what-sql-maintenance-should-i-perform-on-my-opsmgr-databases.aspx – by Kevin Holman, also has some good tips on caring for your databases
• http://blogs.technet.com/mgoedtel/archive/2008/10/31/opsmgr-2007-sql-server-log-shipping-guide.aspx – Matt Goetdel
• http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=331402 includes a quick overview of the concept

High Availability and Clustering:

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309428.aspx – supported High Availability configurations for Operations Manager 2007
• http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/6/b/36bfac7b-b585-413b-91f5-dbc6e4ed0405/OpsMgr2007_Deployment.doc – OpsMgr Deployment Guide, including supported clustering scenarios
• http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/6/f/76f3db2f-6f43-4624-bfde-ff731e3c1f96/GDClusters.doc – Geographically Dispersed Clusters, now supported for all OpsMgr 2007 roles
• http://www.systemcenterforum.org/news/deploying-opsmgr-in-highly-available-and-distributed-enterprise-environments-download/ – Andy’s whitepaper on deploying OpsMgr in Highly Available and Distributed Environments

AD Integration:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2008/03/20/opsmgr-ad-integration-how-it-works.aspx – How AD Integration works, by Steve Rachui
• http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/09/11/setting-specific-failover-management-servers.aspx – Boris Yanushpolsky’s PowerShell script on specifying particular failover servers when not using AD Integration

Database Grooming:

• http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!176.entry – Kerrie’s write-up on database grooming process and data retention used by Operations Manager 2007 (more detail provided in Chapter 12, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed)
• http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/05/14/data-warehouse-data-retention-policy-dwdatarp-exe.aspx – Daniel Savage’s command-line tool for grooming the Data Warehouse database
• http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/01/30/operations-manager-data-retention-and-grooming-information.aspx – Daniel Savage’s documentation on data retention and grooming 

Partitioning the Data Warehouse database – see Chapter 12, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, pp 550-552

The following article provides a summary of the topics presented in the MMS session “Common Mistakes When Using Operations Manager and How to Avoid Them” and a reference for all links which were referenced within the presentation. These are sorted in alphabetical order by the main topic presented below.

 

Anti-Virus:

AV Exclusions:

http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2007/12/12/antivirus-exclusions-for-mom-and-opsmgr.aspx

 

Authoring Management Packs:

Debugging Discovery failures:

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2008/12/19/what-if-my-discovery-script-fails.aspx  http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/discoveries/

 

Hotfixes with OpsMgr:

Hotfixes that didn’t really install:

http://www.systemcenterforum.org/news/critical-hotfixes-for/

http://nocentdocent.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/scom-patching-blues/

What hotfixes to apply?

http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2009/01/27/which-hotfixes-should-i-apply.aspx

Hotfix Matrix:

 http://weblogwally.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A913F865098E0556!560.entry

Hotfix potential side-effects:

http://nocentdocent.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/patching-blues-qfe-958490-pumps-up-healthservice-cpu-usage-on-agents/.

Automated deployment of hotfixes with ConfigMgr:

http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!1285.entry

 

Management Packs:

Alert Storms:

http://pavleck.net/2008/10/06/its-bound-to-happen-how-to-handle-alert-storms/  

All-in-One environment for testing:

http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!903.entry

Cleaning up the default MP:

http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/11/11/cleaning-up-the-default-mp.aspx, http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2007/05/03/removing-dependencies-on-the-default-management-pack.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/tnmag/archive/2009/04/01/blog-tales-cleaning-up-the-default-mp.aspx  

SCCM/ConfigMgr and Performance counters: http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam/archive/2009/02/13/monitoring-configuration-manager-2007-with-operations-manager-2007-in-a-64-bit-environment.aspx  

MP bugs:

http://nocentdocent.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/kms-management-pack-bug/

 

Ops Databases:

Useful queries in the opsmgr database for Information gathering: http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2007/10/18/useful-operations-manager-2007-sql-queries.aspx

Modify grooming settings:

http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!176.entry

Database maintenance:

http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/04/12/what-sql-maintenance-should-i-perform-on-my-opsmgr-databases.aspx

Reducing retention periods:

http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/11/04/boosting-opsmgr-performance-by-reducing-the-opsdb-data-retention.aspx

Localized text table grows and does not clean up. This is fixed in R2: http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/10/13/does-your-opsdb-keep-growing-is-your-localizedtext-table-using-all-the-space.aspx

 

Password Changes:

Challenges changing passwords for account in OpsMgr:

http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2009/04/resetting-sdk-and-action-account.html

 

Resetting Monitors:

Reset all Monitors:

http://blogs.msdn.com/mariussutara/archive/2009/01/19/how-to-restart-monitoring-of-my-environment-another-version-update.aspx   

Reset to green:

http://blogs.technet.com/timhe/archive/2009/01/15/announcing-the-greenmachine-utility-for-operationsmanager-rtm-sp1-and-r2.aspx

 

Root Management Servers & Management Servers:

Memory Examples for the RMS:  http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1180.entry

Moving the Operations Manager Folder: http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1247.entry

RMS promotion:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540401.aspx

Deploying agents using ConfigMgr:

http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!1034.entry    

How many consoles are connected:

http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/10/27/how-many-consoles-are-connected-to-my-rms.aspx

High Handle count KB:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951979

Work-around for High Handle Count: http://r0nwilliams.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!62A0019E9E556103!330.entry

 

Virtualization with OpsMgr:

Thoughts on what to virtualize:

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2007/10/02/virtualizing-opsmgr-2007-roles.aspx

Virtualization support policy:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615

 

Windows 2008:

5 part series for OpsMgr installation on Windows 2008:

http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!768.entry)

UAC and OpsMgr:

http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1557.entry,

Installing Web console on 2008:

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/12/17/installing-web-console-on-windows-server-2008.aspx

Windows 2008 with Hyper-V counter issues: http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1318.entry  

 

If you’re attending MMS, here are the OpsMgr 2007 breakout sessions. Cameron’s session is S032 on Tuesday, and Kerrie and Andy are co-presenting at S034 Wednesday.

• SO01 – Overview of Ops Mgr 2007 R2 (Tue @ 11:45)
• SO02 – Ops Mgr 2007 R2 Platform Architecture (Tue @ 2:15)
• SO03 – Administrative and Implementation Best Practices (Tue @ 4:00)
• SO04 – Understanding Ops Mgr 2007 Performance & Scalability (Wed @ 10:15)
• SO05 – Developing Custom Reports and Operational Dashboards (Thu @ 4:00)
• SO06 – Monitoring .NET Web Applications (Wed @ 4:00)
• SO07 – Monitoring Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Exchange 2007 (Wed @ 11:45)
• SO08 – Advanced Management Pack Authoring (Fri @ 10:00)
• SO09 – Monitoring UNIX/Linux (Wed @ 2:15)
• SO10 – Understanding the LAMP stack and monitoring it (Thu @ 8:30)
• SO11 – Interop Connectors for System Center (Thu @ 10:15)
• SO12 –SO15 – Management pack Design Series 1-4 (Mon @12, 1:30, 3:00 and 4:30)
• SO25 – Targeting in Operations Manager 2007 (Thu @ 2:30)
• SO26 – Monitors, Aggregations, Dependencies, Rollup (Thu @ 11:45)
• SO30 – Taking Control of Ops Mgr Alerts (Thu @ 11:45)
• SO31 – Inside Active Directory Integration in Large Environments (Fri @ 8:30)
• SO32 – Common Mistakes when using Ops Mgr and how to avoid them (Tue @ 4:00) Cameron Fuller
• SO33 – Operation Manager 2007 R2: Driving Compliance with ACS (Fri@ 11:30)
• SO34 – Configuring Ops Mgr for High Availability (Wed @ 10:15) Kerrie Meyler and Andy Dominey

Cameron, Kerrie, and Andy will be giving out copies of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed for the best questions asked during their sessions.