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Monitoring Password Expirations
The question has recently come up, what about password expiration used for Run As Account (and action account) credentials? If you are using Local System, there is no password to expire. If you specified a domain account, we have you covered (for the Read More...
Cerificate Template for Third-party CA
Some customers have asked how they can obtain a certificate for use with Operations Manager 2007 when are using a Certificate Authority (CA) other than Certificate Services on Windows Server. Use the template below: [Version] Signature= "$Windows NT$" Read More...
Two items regarding the Gateway Server
In the past week I have received two queries from customers that I want to share. The first is that when you use the Gateway Approval Tool, it will attempt to write data to the Operations Manager database. Ensure that the account you log in with to use Read More...
Security Guide has been updated
The new June25th release of the Operation Manager 2007 Security Guide is now available at the following URL: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OpsMgr2007_Security.doc New topics in this release: · Role-Based Read More...
Phase 1 of the Security Guide is Online
Phase 1 of the Operations Manager 2007 Security Guide is now available online at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/opsmgr/2007/library/proddocs.mspx The first phase of the Security Guide was written rather quickly to address the top two security-related Read More...
Creating a read-only MOM Operator Console
A question that I hear frequently is "How do I create a read-only Operator Console"? The MOM security groups are 'MOM User', 'MOM Author', and 'MOM Administrator'. Unfortunately, there is no 'MOM Read-only User' security group. This means that there is Read More...
Securing MOM
Many customers are interested in best practices for securing their MOM 2005 deployment. Beyond the documentation we provide (see the MOM Security Center as part of the MOM 2005 Admin console\Information Center) here are a couple more tips: Use Security Read More...
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