We have noticed over the last few weeks, a problem where subscriptions in System Center Operations Manager 2007 suddenly and for no reason we can identify, become disabled. This is a bad thing because these subscriptions are used to send email and pages to folks like Winfra when there is a critica... [More]

I had an extensive conversation today with Erik Loftstrand at Microsoft. We discussed in detail the benefits (or lack thereof) of clustering the root management server in a System Center Operations Manager 2007 deployment. Erik was of the opinion that there is no benefit to clustering the RMS. ... [More]

A while back, we noticed that the subscriptions in SCOM where becoming disabled for no known reason. In the end, I wrote a Windows service to monitor the subscriptions and re-enable them should they become disabled. Well, we finally found a reason and solution. This, believe it or not, is by ... [More]

I’ve been playing with ways to figure out how to automate the grouping of monitored servers. I have a customer who wants to see just their servers. I can create a group and add their servers manually to that group but I think I have a better way of doing it. I can create an attribute. ... [More]