InterOp Connectors Released 1/5/2009 - System Center News I got this following email a couple of days ago. The InterOp Connectors have been released. This should make the R2 version of Operations Manager a complete end to end solution.
64 bit Server 2008 12/10/2008 - Windows As a colleague recently wrote in his blog 64bit Woes not Wows! I wanted to add my two cents.
Making Windows Live Applications work on Server 2008 12/9/2008 - Windows After rebuilding my laptop back to Server 2008 32bit I wanted to install Windows Live applications (just Live Writer and Messenger). However the installer for these applications fails on the OS Check.
Manual Agent Assignment vs. Auto Agent Assignment 10/30/2008 - System Center Operations Manager I have found that the Manual Agent assignment doesn’t work as well as advertised. In the env I was working in, we had agents set to failover to between GW servers, GWs set to failover between the RMS and Mgt servers. That didn’t happen and the agents would just drop offline.
Problem changing the Primary Management Server 10/27/2008 - System Center Operations Manager When you need to change the primary Management Server, but are having problems with your agents going off line (see the post below on changing Primary Management Server), I have found two ways to get around the issues. Both are doing the same thing.