SCOM R2 Unleashed book finally at home

Yeah!
Finally I got the paper version of the SCOM 2007 R2 Unleashed book in my hand.
My Precious (imagine the Gollum voice here)…
Already had the electronic version, but I simply like real paper books most for normal reading.
Thanks to Kerrie and f…

SCOM agent error Microsoft ESENT Keys are required

Ran into this error while manually changing some SCOM agents. They actually needed both an update and a second management group configured.
While trying to update the settings of the SCOM agent through Add/Remove programs on Windows 2008 boxes I got t…

Additional SCOM Update KB981263

Microsoft released another SCOM update KB981263:
Management servers or assigned agents unexpectedly appear as unavailable in the Operations Manager console in Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008
Consider the following scenario:
You install…

SCDPM and SCSM documentation

Going to start reading the documentation is always a good place to start.
So as DPM 2010 and Service Manager 2010 hit RTM you can find the docs and links to docs here:
DPM 2010:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff399192.aspx
Service Man…

SCOM 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 2 is out

The new Cumulative Update 2 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 has been released just before this weekend.
You can find the download at the download center:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=61714687-668a-46e4-b127-ad851959435…