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One of the things that are regularly forgotten is to set certain antivirus scanner exclusions for SCOM (and other applications as well to be honest). All of the virus scanners can be set to exclude certain paths or processes or file extensions. Some of… more »

One of the features that I think does not get a lot of attention is the Company Knowledge tab available for alerts on monitors or rules. Even the product knowledge is not always used as it should be. In many cases an IT environment has been customized o… more »

In SCOM operations we often get the question where a certain alert is. For instance one person is seeing the alert and another person is not seeing it. This might seem like something easy (and it is!!), but I think I get or see one question about this e… more »

A good number of management packs depend on an agent setting to enable proxy mode. Now this has nothing to do with using a browser to access the internet. This setting basically means that you allow the agent to forward data to the management server on… more »

Having a number of consoles open places a burden on the RMS server as all consoles connect to the SDK service on the RMS server. This includes web console sessions. So if you have more than a few consoles open continuously you might consider lowering th… more »

Once in a while you will encounter a situation where you will have to uninstall the agent from a command line. For instance if somebody shutdown a SCOM test environment while forgetting to do the uninstall of all agents first. They will all be active an… more »

Once in a while you will need to remove a management pack. Either because you are no longer monitoring whatever that management pack was for, or a new version of the same management pack requires you to remove the previous version first. Well removin… more »

A question that comes up a lot is whether SQL 2008 R2 is supported for SCOM 2007 R2 and what to do while installing a new SCOM installation on that version of SQL. If you do a fresh installation of SCOM on a SQL 2008 R2 you will find that you cannot… more »

In a few cases we have seen 1106 events in SCOM environments appearing. You will see those in the operations manager event log from the HealthService with ID 1106. These will have a text referring to RunAs accounts. For instance: Cannot access plain tex… more »

So you want to do some cross platform monitoring of Linux and Unix clients with SCOM. A very good idea. As mentioned before in Trick 1: Read the product documentation at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310604.aspx But in some cases you… more »