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Thanks to Clive Eastwood for finding this one.  Looks like Microsoft updated the online catalog.

Check it out for yourself.

https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/catalog.aspx

This guide describes the key concepts required to understand Operations Manager. It describes modeling, how modeling is implemented in Operations Manager, and key changes between Operations Manager 2005 and 2007.

Download the files here…

Most of you have probably heard about this already but here it is again.  I have already been able to deploy this service pack and I can already see a remarkable improvement in performance when navigating the console.  Everything seems to be quite a bit faster.  Windows performance reports appear to fixed as well.

Keep in mind that you will need to deploy all new agents to your monitored systems.  I did have an issue when installing the new agent on a machine where WMI became corrupted.  I opened a command prompt and ran “lodctr /r” and that cleared up the problem.  This incident was isolated and I won’t chalk it up to the new agents. 

Read the original post by the MOM team here…

Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Operating System Management Pack provides the fundamental monitoring basics for computers running the Windows Server 2000 and 20003 Operating System.

Note: This is just an update to the MP Guide.

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The Windows Domain Name System Management Pack monitors DNS events placed in the Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 system event logs, highlighting events that may indicate possible service outages or configuration problems, so you can quickly take corrective or preventative actions.

Note: This is just un upate to the MP guide.

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The Operation Manager team has posted a blog on a new DB size calculator for OpsMgr 2007.

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This download contains a standalone version of the Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Release Notes. This release notes document includes information about how to install and configure this management pack. It also describes known issues about the product and suggested resolutions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=62F22988-B326-4112-A5AA-3F28E7AAB148&displaylang=en

Note: This update is required for the Exchange 2007 Management Pack

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Updated MOM 2005 Backwards Compatibility MP (6.0.5000.16) includes the following additional functionality:

• Update to allow script generated performance data from converted MPs to be written to the data warehouse
• Update to allow script generated events from converted MPs to be written to the data warehouse
• Update to allow service state events to be written to the data warehouse

Management Pack Release History:

• Initial Release 3/23/2007 Version 6.0.5000.0
• Updated release 5/29/2007 Version 6.0.5000.1
• Updated release 7/10/2007:
  • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Internal.mp 6.0.5000.16
  • Microsoft.Systemcenter.2007.mp 6.0.5000.16
  • System.Mom.BackwardCompatibility.Library.mp 6.0.5000.12

Updated release 9/28/07:

• System.Mom.BackwardCompatibility.Library.mp 6.0.5000.16
• Microsoft.SystemCenter.Internal.mp removed to System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Update
• Microsoft.Systemcenter.2007.mp removed to System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Update

  A good post about Anti-Virus configuration for OpsMgr 2007.

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OpsMgr and Anti-Virus Configurations

SUMMARY

Most organizations run anti-virus (AV) software on their servers and workstations to detect and fix computer viruses. However, running antivirus software on server software systems such as Operations Manager can cause data corruption and have a detrimental effect on performance.

MORE INFORMATION

There are particular folders and files that should be excluded from anti-virus scanning.

• These include the SQL Server database files used by Operations Manager components as well as system database files for the master database and tempdb.
• You will also want to exclude queue and log files used by Operations Manager from anti-virus scanning.
• These include but are not limited to files under %ProgramFiles%\System Center Operations Manager\Health Service State\.
• You will want to exclude the page file from anti-virus scanning as well.

If you use a firewall, you will need to open up the ports for installing the agent (135), client communication (5723), email communication (25), and potentially others. The ports used by Operations Manager 2007 are listed in Table 1.

Table 1. Communication Paths and Ports

From Component	To Component	Bidirectional?	TCP Port
Root Management Server (RMS) or Management Server (MS)	Operational Database (Ops DB) and Data Warehouse (DW DB)	No	OLEDB 1433 (SQL); in a cluster the second node requires a unique port number
RMS	MS or Gateway Server	Yes	5723
Operations console	RMS	No	5723
Agent	RMS, MS, or Gateway	No	5723
Reporting Server, Web Console Server	RMS	No	5724
Connector Framework Source	RMS	No	51905
Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) Client	AEM file share on RMS or MS	Yes	SMB 445, 51906
Software Quality Metrics (SQM) Client	SQM Endpoint	No	51907
Web console	Web Console Server	No	HTTP 51908
Audit Collection Services (ACS) Agent	ACS Collector	Yes	51909
ACS Collector	ACS DB	No	OLEDB 1433 (SQL)
Reporting Server	DW DB	No	OLEDB 1433 (SQL); in a cluster the second node requires a unique port number
Operations console	Reporting Server	No	HTTP 80

Just released!! …about time.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1a83e112-8677-4e03-83c3-f1b7ebfc3a4b&displaylang=en&tm