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• OpsMgr 2007: The DBCreatewizard utility fails with a BadImageformatException when run on a 64-bit OS

  I'm going through a couple older issues and posting the resolutions just in case one of you happen to see the same thing.  The first regards running DBCreateWizard on a 64-bit OS: ======== Issue: The DBCreatewizard utility fails with BadImageformatException... Posted Nov 19 2008, 01:51 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Database, OpsMgr, tool, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: Reporting console returns error "Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'

  Here's an interesting one I came across that I think you'll find interesting.  This one covers a message you may get if you're using the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003: ======== Issue: When you open the System Center Operations... Posted Nov 19 2008, 08:58 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: console, OpsMgr, Report, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: Reporting console returns error "Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'"

  Here's an interesting one I came across that I think you'll find interesting. This one covers a message you may get if you're using the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003: ======== Issue: When you open the System Center Operations Manager... Posted Nov 19 2008, 08:54 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: console, OpsMgr, Report, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: Cluster shows as not monitored under cluster state

  Every once in a while we run across an issue where the cluster state view in System Center Operations Manager 2007 may show a cluster as not monitored.  If you happen to run into this too then here are 4 steps sent to me by Adrian Doyle that should... Posted Nov 06 2008, 07:17 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Cluster, OpsMgr, troubleshoot, Monitor

• OpsMgr 2007: RMS cluster node registers the Health Service SPN with the physical node's computer account

  Today's tip comes from Michael Sadoff , one of the top Senior Support Escalation Engineers in our North Carolina office.  If you're seeing mutual authentication fail and notice that a node in an RMS cluster registers the ServicePrincipalName... Posted Oct 30 2008, 04:58 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: RMS, OpsMgr, troubleshoot

• Modifying the frequency and threshold of Exchange MP disk monitoring

  I want to highlight an issue with the Exchange 2007 Management Pack (MP) in terms of disk monitoring that we see every now and then. Essentially the MP looks at all disks and generates alerts if any of the disks are low on space.  The only problem... Posted Oct 29 2008, 08:13 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, Management Pack, troubleshoot

• Reports in the Exchange Management Pack may time out

  Just a quick heads-up on an issue we're starting to see more of these days.  The reports in the Exchange 2007 Management Pack (MP) look great and work great most of the time but since they run using the raw data in the Data Warehouse (DW) they... Posted Oct 27 2008, 09:52 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, Report, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: Failure Audit events 570 in Security event log of RMS server

  Here's another OpsMgr 2007 tip from Milan Jajal, a support engineer in our Manageability group.  I hate to steal his thunder, but he basically says that if you're seeing 570 security audit failures sourced from Microsoft Operations Manager... Posted Oct 20 2008, 07:30 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: RMS, OpsMgr, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: Custom alert view with Rules and Monitors does not work as expected

  Today's System Center Operations Manager 2007 tip comes from Milan Jajal, one of our top OpsMgr support engineers.  If you created a custom alert view to show only new alerts but you're seeing closed ones too then this may be your issue:... Posted Oct 14 2008, 05:42 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, troubleshoot, Alert

• OpsMgr 2007: DFS Management Pack Generates Bogus "DFS Link Monitor" Alerts

  Here's an interesting Operations Manager tip that comes from Michael Sadoff, a real life Support Escalation Engineer from Charlotte, North Carolina.  If you're running the DFS Management Pack and getting some false-positives then you'll... Posted Aug 14 2008, 08:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, Management Pack, troubleshoot

• Have you seen the new OpsManJam site?

  Some of our folks out in the field got together and put up a fantastic OpsManager website out at http://www.opsmanjam.com and if you haven't seen it already you should definitely check it out.  They're posting unofficial management packs... Posted Aug 13 2008, 04:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: whitepaper, Powershell, Documentation, OpsMgr, tool, troubleshoot

• The OpsMgr Health Service service terminated with service-specific error 3 (0x3)

  Here's another Operations Manager 2007 issue you might want to keep your eyes open for: ======== Symptoms: When attempting to deploy a System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 agent the deployment succeeds but the HealthService fails to... Posted Jul 24 2008, 07:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, troubleshoot, Health Service

• OpsMgr 2007: No Health State for DFS Link Targets

  Here's an interesting issue uncovered by Michael Sadoff, one of our top Support Escalation Engineers out in North Carolina.  If you're looking to monitor DFS Link Targets with the Microsoft Windows Server DFS 2003 management pack then you'll... Posted Jul 01 2008, 08:47 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, troubleshoot, Monitor

• OpsMgr 2007: Using the Performance Views in Monitoring to Troubleshoot Blank Performance Reports

  It happens again and again in System Center Operations Manager 2007: The dreaded blank report. Your boss is breathing down your neck for performance data but all you get is a white page. This can occur for a variety of reasons, including (but not necessarily... Posted Jun 11 2008, 08:39 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, Report, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: Agent Installation fails with Error 25205.Failed to uninstall SDK MOF

  Here's another common issue you might run into.  This one causes the agent setup to fail due to a missing WMI class: ======== Issue: The installation of the Operations Manager 2007 Agent may fail and you may see the following in the setup log... Posted May 12 2008, 07:55 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: Clustered resources may generate event IDs 1103 and 10720

  Here's another common issue we're seeing quite a bit of so if you're seeing these 1103 and 10720 events you'll definitely want to check this out: ======== PROBLEM: When using System Center Operations Manager 2007, you may experience one... Posted May 01 2008, 04:31 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Cluster, OpsMgr, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: HealthService Service Fails to Start with 25362 Warning

  We've been highlighting a few problems we see around here doing support for OpsMgr and ConfigMgr so I thought I'd offer up one of my own.  If you run into this it can be tricky to troubleshoot but with the tips below, fixing this should be... Posted Apr 30 2008, 07:25 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, troubleshoot, Health Service

• OpsMgr 2007: AD_Replication_Monitoring.vbs (From Active Directory Management Pack) fails

  We've had a couple calls on this so I thought I'd send out a heads up just in case you run into it: ======== Problem: The AD_Replication_Monitoring.vbs script from the Active Directory Management pack may fail to run and an alert similar to below may... Posted Apr 09 2008, 10:52 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: Email notification to external email address fails with error 31500

  We've seen this problem crop up a few times here recently so I thought a heads-up was in order.  Hopefully if you use external email addresses in your notifications you have run into this issue but if you have this may be a solution: ======== Problem... Posted Mar 27 2008, 03:23 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, troubleshoot, Health Service

• OpsMgr 2007: DataAccessLayer Event ID 33333 with "should not generate data about this managed object"

  Here's another issue that seems to get a bit of traffic so I thought I'd give you all a heads up just in case you run across it: ======== Problem: In System Center Operations Manager 2007, a management server repeatedly logs events that are similar to... Posted Mar 13 2008, 06:54 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: Agents stuck in Pending Management with Event ID 21016

  I was going through some of the calls we've been getting lately and this issue seems to be quite popular. The description and resolution is below so maybe if you run into it now you can save yourself some time and a phone call: ========== When you deploy... Posted Mar 13 2008, 10:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, troubleshoot

• OpsMgr 2007: List of Resource Kit Tools

  Looking for the complete list of Resource Kit tools for System Center Operations Manager 2007?  Here you go: Name: Sample Vista Gadget Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0f5a060b-635d-4355-b0ac-32ee2943bfd9&DisplayLang... Posted Jan 08 2008, 04:52 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: OpsMgr, tool, troubleshoot

• New SMS, MOM and System Center KB Articles for 10-21 Through 10-27

  Here are the latest: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942536 You cannot move created objects into a folder or out of a folder if the folder was created on a secondary site of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 10/24/2007 Sys Center Config Manager... Posted Nov 05 2007, 02:35 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hotfix, SMS, MOM, SCVMM, SCCM, Virtual Machine Manager, SCOM2007, KB article, OpsMgr, SCCM2007, SCE2007, Security Update, troubleshoot