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The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has released a new guide: DirectAccess. This IPD guide provides actionable guidance for designing a DirectAccess infrastructure. The guide’s easy-to-follow, four-step process gives a straightforward explanat… more »

 After importing the Group Policy management pack in SCOM it started picking up events on a customer network like these:Windows cannot bind to [domain name] domain. (Invalid Credentials). Group Policy processing aborted.Just a few hundre… more »

  A fresh update to the Windows Failover Clustering Management Pack has been released. Some of the major updates in this release are Support for discovery and monitoring of Windows Server 2008 R2 clusters and functionality such as Cluster Shar… more »

From The Operations Manager Team blog:Updates to the Exchange Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 are now available on the Management Pack Catalog.The Exchange 2003 MP update includes an improvement to topology discovery that removes the… more »

  From the Operations Manager Product Team blog: I am very pleased to announce that the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit has RTW’d. It can be downloaded from : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa… more »

  Microsoft released the DFS Replication Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. The new version is 6.0.6321.0 with publish date 19 Oct 2009. It can be downloaded here at the DFS management pack download page. From the downlo… more »

I previously posted about installation of a SCOM agent on a Sun Solaris machine.In that case we had to do a manual install of the agent.A few days ago the Cross plat team released an update to SCOM that contains new agents for the cross platforms.… more »

A few days ago the SCOM cross platform team released an update that fixes some things and add some support. The update can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4a41a8be-0a37-4bd2-b5b1-026468b317fb&displaylang=en… more »

During an upgrade of a DPM 2007 installation to DPM 2010 Beta I came across a Hyper-V core server with a DPM agent that would not upgrade. So the DPM agent had to be manually removed from the machine. As the Server Core does not have a graphical interfac… more »

A few days ago Microsoft released the final version of Mmicrosoft Security Essentials. This is an anti-virus and anti-malware product designed for the home-pc market. It is free to use! Check out the website for more details, documentation, videos and mo… more »