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Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:17 AM

Availability Reporting MP Now Available

At long last - the Availability Reporting MP is now available for download from micrososft.com! The Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Availability Reporting Management Pack collects and analyzes data from the event logs of your servers, and generates
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:30 PM

Nice write up on MOM on TechTarget

Good article on the new features in MOM 2005: Tech Target Write Up
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Friday, September 09, 2005 6:52 PM

How to install the MOM Connector Framework (MCF), MOM to MOM Product Connector (MMPC) and MOM Web Console silently?

The following command line switches have not been mentioned in the MOM 2005 deployment guide. These switches are for users who would like to install the MOM Connector Framework, MOM to MOM Product Connector and the MOM Web Console silently.   Machine
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Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:51 PM

Microsoft IT Forum 2005 Coming Up Soon

The Microsoft IT Forum 2005 conference is coming up soon.  The registration site is up and running here: http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx Date:   15-17 November Location:  Barcelona, Spain
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005 12:44 AM

Steve Ballmer Mentions MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition in Exec Mail

Once a month Steve Ballmer sends an exec email to subscribers.  These emails usually talk about Microsoft's vision/strategy in certain areas.  In this month's installment, Steve discusses Microsoft's strategy to meet the unique business and
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:45 PM

The Microsoft Product Cycle

Ian Blyth (Technical Sales - UK) made a great post on his blog about the Microsoft product cycle.  It explains the process that is used by product teams at Microsoft to plan, build, test, and release the products we work on. Check it out here:
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005 4:35 PM

How to change agent control level = Full to None for pre-existing MOM 2005/SP1 agents?

The following things need to be done in order to change Agent Control Level from Full to None.   Stop the MOM service on the MOM Management Server managing the particular agent whose control level needs to be changed. Open the Admin Console
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 1:08 PM

New AVICode.Net MP Available

Check out this new MP!  Really powerful application management capabilities.  Here is the overview: Overview Targeted to systems operators responsible for monitoring system health, AVIcode’s .NET management pack operations edition for Microsoft
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:57 PM

Playing a Sound When a New MOM Alert Comes In

We had another one of those interesting threads on an internal distribution alias today about playing a sound when a new alert comes into MOM.  While MOM doesnt support this natively, the contributors to this thread came up with some interesting
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:41 PM

Running Multiple MOM Consoles at Once

We had an interesting thread today on an internal alias about running multiple MOM consoles simultaneously.  The following are supported configurations: Run multiple MOM 2000 consoles at once - create more than one MMC console with a MOM
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Thursday, September 01, 2005 4:50 PM

How can you tell what version of MOM you have installed and how can you tell how many days are left in the MOM 2005 Eval version?

You can tell what version of Operations Manager 2005 you have by going into the registry and looking under HKLM\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\2.0\Setup\InstalledServerSKU.  It will say "Eval" for the evaluation version, "Select" or "Retail"
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