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This week the annual Microsoft Teched North America convention is being held in New Orleans, Lousiana. The conference kicked off today with a opening keynote by Microsoft president Bob Muglia. Hereunder you will find a comprehensive summary. Before the annual TechEd North America keynote kicked off in New Orleans, the audience got a treat from a local band perfoming music from artists like James Brown. (more)

On the 30th of April Microsoft released Cumulative Update 2 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.
In this article i will detail my experiences from the installation, which didn't work out in the first place.

Before starting the update, i did the following:

1. Downloaded the update
2. Read the corresponding KB article: KB979257
3. Read the blogpost from Kevin Holman detailing his experiences.

Well, especially the article from Kevin Holman was a very interesting read, so i decided to follow this article and use this as a guide during my upgrade. (more)

Maarten Damen has released a Management Pack for Trend Micro IMSS.

Trend Micro IMSS (Interscan Messaging Security Suite) is a mail gateway solution, which includes anti-spam and anti-virus solutions. With this Management Pack you are able to monitor the health and performance of your IMSS server(s).

Download: Trend Micro IMSS Operations Manager Management Pack

In this article I will explain a challenge I experienced while installing the OpsMgr web-console on a management server. After installation of the OpsMgr webconsole I got the following error: "Server error in '/' Application". And as it turned out finding the problem wasn't that easy.

I had a strange problem while installing the OpsMgr web-console at a customer. Within their test environment I decided to install the OpsMgr web-console on the management server which runs on Windows Server 2008. So I started with installing the AJAX component, and adding the webserver role with the needed role features.(see: reference1 at the end of this article) (more)

The System Center Operations Manager team released an update for the OpsMgr R2 Management Pack on the 19th of Februari. The version is 6.1.7599.0. and can only be installed if you have System Center Operations Manager R2 installed.

The Operations Manager management pack helps you to monitor the health of your Operations Manager environment, now that's a nice "Chicken-Egg" scenario.

Before you install this management pack, read the Management Pack Guide, which can be downloaded from the link below. The Management Pack guide contains important information about what to do before and after the installation of the Management Pack.


Download the OpsMgr R2 Management Pack and the Management Pack guide

After upgrading to SCCM 2007 SP2, AD discovery methods will fail to bind across external trusts.

The failure occurs because of a change made in Service Pack 2 which makes the product more secure by requiring authentication for AD binds. As discovery is performed by the site server System account, authentication on the network requires Kerberos which is not supported across external trusts.(continue at source)

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Cumulative Update 2 includes System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Agent Update (KB973583) and additional bug fixes.

Note: Keep in mind that the Management Packs associated with this release have not yet been published, so you'll have to wait to use the full functionality of this update.

Note 2: The Updated Management Packs have been posted, you can find them here

Download: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Cumulative Update 2

As you know the most recent SCOM documentation can be found on Technet, see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498235.aspx.

Sometimes though it's handy to have the documentation available offline. Microsoft provides a download where you can download the documentation for reference.

Download: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation