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Microsoft Updates Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager 2007
10 UPDATED Management Packs:
Active Directory Management Pack monitors the availability and performance of Windows Server 2000 and 2003 Domain Controllers. It can also issue alerts for configuration problems. Availability and performance monitoring is done using synthetic transactions. In addition, the Management Pack collects Event Log alerts and provides associated knowledge articles with additional user details, possible causes, and suggested resolutions. The Management Pack monitors Windows services critical to a Domain Controller, such as Net Logon, File Replication, KDC, and Windows Time. The Active Directory Client Perspective monitoring is used independently from the monitoring on the Domain Controller. It runs synthetic transactions to validate the availability of the Active Directory deployment from the perspective of an Active Directory client. Client monitoring can be enabled on selected critical members servers or desktop clients.
The Active Directory Management Pack monitors Active Directory and the external components that are related to Active Directory. It provides forest-wide monitoring of the directory service and its required subsystems. In addition to real-time performance and event monitoring, it allows you to respond immediately to critical performance, health, or capacity issues.
Feature Summary:
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Core services (Net logon, KDC), dependent services (File Replication, Windows Time), and SYSVOL/DC Locator availability monitoring
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Synthetic Transactions for general AD, Global Catalog, Op Master Roles response
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Synthetic Replication performance monitoring
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Replication health
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Comprehensive performance metric collection (synthetic transaction and performance counter based)
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Independent Client-side monitoring MP
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Database and Log file growth/free space
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Comprehensive list of tasks to diagnose problems
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AD Topology discovery (Forests, Sites, Domain, and Connection objects between DCs)
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400+ Event rules with associated knowledge
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Reports in the area of Configuration and Configuration changes, Availability, Performance
Client 2000/XP Operating System Management Pack
provides monitoring of the basic health indicators of a Windows Client system, such as processor, memory, disk health, availability, and key performance metrics. Optional alerting on threshold monitoring is available.
Feature Summary:
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Key Processor performance indicators
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Logical and Physical Disk performance and free space
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Memory utilization
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Network health
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Health monitoring of key Windows Operating System Services
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Comprehensive performance collections
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Availability and Event reports
Exchange 2003 Management Pack monitors the performance and availability of Exchange 2003 Server systems. It can also issue alerts for possible configuration problems Availability and performance monitoring is done using synthetic transactions. In addition, the Management Pack collects Event Log alerts and provides associated knowledge articles with additional user details, possible causes, and suggested resolutions. The Management Pack discovers and monitors the individual server components and functional areas on an Exchange 2003 Server. Update version addressing problems with empty alert parameter data in self-tuning threshold monitors, and discovery issues on Exchange 2003 running in a clustered setup.
Feature Summary:
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MAPI, OWA, OMA, EAS synthetic logon transactions
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Mail flow synthetic transaction
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Mail Queue monitoring using Self-Tuning Thresholds
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Comprehensive performance metric collection
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1000+ Event rules with associated knowledge
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Database status
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Database size
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Mailbox statistics
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Public folder statistics
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Message tracking log statistics • Exchange and related OS Service monitoring
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Configuration monitoring
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Topology discovery of Exchange deployment
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Integration in Exchange Best Practice Analyzer and ExDiag tools
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Reports in the area of Configuration and Configuration changes, Availability, Performance
Internet Explorer - version 5 through 7
Media Player - version 6 through 11
MSN and Windows Messenger - version 3 through 7
Outlook Express - Internet Explorer 5 through 7
Windows Explorer - Windows 2000 and Windows XP
Access - Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007
Communicator - 2005 and 2007
Excel - Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007
FrontPage - Office XP and Office 2003
Groove - Office 2007
InfoPath - Office 2003 and Office 2007
LiveMeeting - Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007
OneNote - Office 2003 and Office 2007
Outlook - Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007
PowerPoint - Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007
Project - Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007
Publisher - Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007
Visio - Office 2003 and Office 2007
Internet Information Services Management Pack monitors the availability and performance of IIS 5.0 and 6.0 Web Servers on Windows Server 2000 and 2003 systems. In addition, the Management Pack collects Event Log alerts and provides associated knowledge articles with additional user details, possible causes, and suggested resolutions. If configured, the IIS MP also monitors FTP Site, SMTP Server, and NNTP server.
IIS MP Monitors:
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Web Sites
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Application Pools
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FTP Servers
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NNTP Servers
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SMTP Servers
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Management Pack monitors the health and performance of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 components. It includes a rich set of views, tasks. This Management Pack detects and alerts problems with performance, health, and availability. It can automatically respond to critical events and performance indicators. In some cases it identifies issues before they become critical, enabling you to increase the overall availability and performance of your SharePoint Portal Server 2003 deployment.
WSS 2.0 MP monitors:
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Core Services
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Web Parts
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Configuration Database
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Web Sites
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Application Pools
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Content Databases
- Detection and monitoring of all Configuration Manager servers and dependent services
- The alert driven state
- The site hierarchy diagram,
- Performance and backlog monitoring and configuration
- Performance and availability reports.
Terminal Services Management Pack monitors the health and performance of Terminal Services components. It includes a rich set of views, tasks, and reports, and provides monitoring for Terminal Services, the Licensing Server, and the Session Directory.
This Management Pack detects and alerts problems with performance, health, and availability. It can automatically respond to critical events and performance indicators. In some cases it identifies issues before they become critical, enabling you to increase the overall availability and performance of your Windows operating systems.
Feature Summary:
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Independent discovery of Terminal Server Service (application mode), Licensing Server Service, and Session Directory Service (Windows 2003 only)
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Optional discovery of Terminal Server installations in Remote Desktop (Remote Application) mode
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Performance threshold monitoring on key Terminal Services Metrics using Self-Tuning Thresholds
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Comprehensive performance metric collection (optional collection rules)
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Comprehensive event rules with associated knowledge
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Availability and Event Reports
Windows Server 2000/2003 Operating System Management Pack provides monitoring of the basic health indicators of a Windows Server system, such as processor, memory, disk health, availability, and key performance metrics. Optional rules and monitors can be enabled to provide in-depth discovery and monitoring of the Windows Operating System.
ADDITIONAL Management Packs Available:
Data Warehouse Library Management Pack contains the definitions and workflows required to support the forwarding of data to the Operations Manager Data Warehouse as well as the subsequent maintenance of the data. It also contains rules and monitors to track the ongoing health of the Data Warehouse data flows and processes. This Management Pack ships with the Operations Manager product and is periodically updated with fixes and new functionality.
Feature Summary:
- Manages the flow of data to the Data Warehouse
- Manages credentials used for the operation and management of the Data Warehouse
- Supports the deployment of reports to the Data Warehouse
- Manages the aggregation of performance data in the Data Warehouse
- Synchronizes alert data in the Data Warehouse with recent alert changes made in the operational database
- Manages the health of Data Warehouse workflows
Domain Name System 2000, 2003 Management Pack is designed to be used for monitoring DNS 2000 or DNS 2003 events, collecting DNS component-specific performance counters in one central location, and for raising alerts for operator intervention as necessary. By detecting, sending alerts, and automatically responding to critical events, this Management Pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible service outages or configuration problems, allowing you to proactively manage DNS and identify issues before they become critical.
Feature Summary:
- Monitor the health and availability of the DNS components.
- Collect key performance data for DNS.
- Start common tasks in context of Operations Manager alerts.
- Monitor overall health through state view for DNS computers.
Group Policy health monitors:
- Group Policy core infrastructure/registry client-side extension
- Scripts client-side extension
- Software installation client-side extension
- Security client-side extension
- Folder redirection client-side extension
- Disk quota
Print Server Management Pack monitors the performance and health of print servers running on Windows 2000 and later Operating Systems. In addition to monitoring the health of print servers, this Management Pack can also provide insight into the status of shared printers. By detecting, alerting on, and automatically responding to critical events and performance indicators, this Management Pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible operating system service outages.
By using embedded expertise, this Management Pack highlights performance, health, and availability conditions that indicate problems. It helps you identify issues before they become critical, thus providing you with a level of customer responsiveness that increases the overall availability and performance of your Windows Operating Systems. As a result, this Management Pack will reduce the cost of ownership by enabling proactive management and reducing resolution times for the issues identified.
SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit
monitor the health state of the components in your SharePoint environment that affect performance and availability. When there is an issue that may cause service or performance degradation, Operations Manager 2007 uses the management packs to detect the issue, alert you to its existence, and facilitate diagnosis and corrective actions.
The management packs monitors:
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 related services (Timer, Tracing and Search)
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 related Events
- Web server applications such as Internet Information Services (IIS)
- IIS-related Events
- Microsoft SQL Server database-related events
- WSS Server performance
SQL Server Management Pack monitors the availability and performance of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 and can issue alerts for configuration problems. Availability and performance monitoring is done using synthetic transactions. In addition, the Management Pack collects Event Log alerts and provides associated knowledge articles with additional user details, possible causes, and suggested resolutions. The Management Pack discovers Database Engines, Database Instances, and Databases and can optionally discover Database File and Database File Group objects.
Feature Summary:
- Active Directory Helper Service
- SQL Server Agent
- Backup
- Databases and Tables
- DBCC
- Full Text Search
- Log Shipping
- Clustering
- DB availability
- Replication monitoring
- Agent jobs
- Backup Query Engine
- Replication
- Web Assistant
- SQL XML
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TRAINING: Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 Technical Training (Jan 10th)
Join us for this free 1-day Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 (ILM) technical training.
This one-day instructor led course is based on a 4-day course Oxford teaches around ILM 2007. It provides students with the knowledge and skills to aggregate information from a variety of data sources and apply business rules to the flow of data between them. Audience
This
course is primarily intended for the Systems Engineer who needs to manage identity information across a number of directories or databases, but also provides an essential foundation for all members of an Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 implementation team. Students should have good experience in Windows 2000 and/or Windows 2003 Directory Services, a working knowledge of SQL Server, directories
and general infrastructure. Course Objectives
The goal of this course is to show the student how to: - Install, backup and restore ILM
- Configure a meta-verse schema
- Create management agents for a number of external sources, including AD forest – in a basic configuration
- Configure management agents, including, connector filters, join rules and attribute flow for straightforward scenarios
- Configure and verify data flow
- Create rules extensions (rudiments)
- Understand the security implications of an ILM installation, and ensure a basic level of security
- View performance counters
- Work with Active Directory and AD/AM, including groups and Exchange enablement
- Manage passwords using WMI and web applications
LOCATION:
Microsoft Irvine OfficeTBC - Training Room
3 Park Plaza
Suite 1600 Irvine California 92614
United States DATE/TIME:
Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:00 AM - Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 8:30
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MUI Installation - Example of East Asian Supplemental Language Support Deployment
Description
Application where clients access the web via a browser housed on Windows 2003 Server. These users may browse to Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalong, Vietnamese, and Spanish based web sites. Some languages do not show up properly until they go to a website such as http://chinese.yahoo.com and allow the language pack installation to complete. Objective: To find a method of performing these steps in an automated fashion with SMS. 
Research This research is broken into two areas; Language Pack and Multi-Lingual User Interface (MUI). Language Pack The Language Pack Installation kicked off by going to http://chinese.yahoo.com performs the same action as checking the “Install files for East Asian languages” box in the Regional and Language Options control panel applet. 
In reviewing knowledge base article 289125
– “How to create the regional and language settings for an unattended installation of Windows Multi-Language Version” it discusses how you can configure an answer file that contains [Regional Settings] and then apply these settings by executing rundll32.exe. To test this, I created a regopts.txt file as shown below: 
…and ran the following command: rundll32.exe shell32,Control_RunDLL intl.cpl,,/f:"c:\regopts.txt" Note: the above command will write to a log file windows\regopts.log …after installation, I reviewed the Regional and Language Options Control Panel applet and verified the “Install files for East Asian languages” box was checked. Then I ensured I could browse to http://chinese.yahoo.com and characters were presented as they should. Note: Everything is in English, but the web page now shows up correctly (see Appendix). Multilingual User Interface (MUI) AT&T has decided they also would like to deploy the Chinese MUI. FAQ and Benefits of MUI can be found in the MUI FAQ
AT&T already has retrieved the MUI for Chinese 0404.MSI. To test how this can be installed we ran the following msiexec /i 0404.MSI /q /norestart /l*v c:\MUI_0404.log Note: We rebooted manually. In order for users to see Chinese at the Ctr+Alt+Del screen, on the startup menu and within Internet Explorer (see Appendix), etc… You’ll need to go within Control Panel | Regional and Language Options and specify Chinese as Language Used in menus and dialogs 
So, what if we want all users to have Chinese? The MUI CD contains a MSINotes.htm that talk about the defaultuser=1 and currentuser=1 parameters. So, let’s say User1, User2, and User3 have a profile on the server. If you run the MSI with the currentuser=1 then User1 will have Chinese, however User2 and User3 will still have English. Any new users created (i.e. User4) will also have Chinese by default because of the defaultuser=1 parameter. How do we get User1 and User2 to change to Chinese in an automated fashion? Note: For existing customers you will have to copy the default profile with all changes made to the TS Server to affect existing scenario. SMS Deployment To deploy with SMS, two packages where created with the following settings and files; MUI Chinese (0404) and East Asian Language. East Asian Language The East Asian Language package is a simple batch file that checks the Install Files for East Asian languages boxes in control panel. The package source looks as follows: 
The contents of regopts.bat are as follows: echo [RegionalSettings] > %temp%\regopts.txt
echo LanguageGroup = 7,8,9,10 >> %temp%\regopts.txt
rundll32 shell32,Control_RunDLL intl.cpl,,/f:"%temp%\regopts.txt" /s:"\\config1dc\Win2003SP1\i386" You May notice the /s:”\\config1dc\Win2003SP1\i386” directory, you want to make sure that your machine accounts have access to this share and files(NTFS). For example, I added “Domain Computers” with Read/Execute permissions. This is because when run under the SMS Client, it will be running under the system context. Other notes: - The command line was simply “regopts.bat”
- Program was setup to run whether or not a user is logged on – which causes it to run under the Administrative context.
- The default No action specified was selected. This is because we’re going to set up a dependant program chain and the second program will initiate a reboot. If you decided to install this program by itself, its recommend to reboot.
MUI Setup The MUI setup package is the 0404.MSI. The package source looks as follows: 
Other Notes - The command line used within the SMS Program is as follows: msiexec /i 0404.MSI /q /norestart /l*v %windir%\system32\ccm\logs\MUI_0404.log
- The program specifies that SMS Restarts Computer
- Program was setup to run whether or not a user is logged on – which causes it to run under the Administrative context.
- The program was setup to depend on the East Asian program running first:
Advertisement An advertisement that kicks off the MUI (which in turn kicks off the East Asian Supplement) was created to run from distribution point and scheduled mandatory 
Appendix – Look and Feel Windows 2003 English – default installation You’ll notice that not all the characters show up correctly. 
Windows 2003 w/East Asian Language Support (after reboot) You’ll notice everything is in English except the web page itself, but everything on the web page shows up correctly. 
Windows 2003 w/East Chinese 0404.MSI MUI (after reboot) 
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Disable Shutdown Event Tracker in Windows 2003
To disable Shutdown Event Tracker perform the following: - Open Group Policy, then load the group policy you want to apply the change to.
Note: On a computer that is not a part of a domain you can set this feature locally by running GPEDIT.MSC from the Run command. For example, if you want the setting to affect the entire domain, edit the Default Domain GPO, or another GPO on the domain level. - Expand Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System.
- Double-click Display Shutdown Event Tracker.
- Select Disabled.
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FSRM error when accessing Storage Reports Manager
I found a fix for a very tricky File Server Resource Manager FSRM problem. In Windows Server 2003 R2 Microsoft introduced a new reporting feature called FSRM. It will create reports for all kinds of file level stuff like duplicate files, disk usage by user etc... Anyway's the problem I ran into was when you open the FSRM.msc and click on Reports you get a very unhelpful error message. "An unexpected error
has occurred. Please check application event log for more information." Ok so if you check the event logs you find Event Type: Error
Event Source: FSRM
Event ID: 0
Description:
An unexpected error occurred in the File Server Resource Manager MMC snap-in
at Microsoft.Storage.SrmMmc.ReportTask.SaveChanges(ISrmReportManager reportManager)
at Microsoft.Storage.SrmMmc.PropertySheet.OnOkButtonClicked(Object sender, EventArgs eventArgs)
Value
does not fall within the expected range.
at Microsoft.Storage.SrmMmc.ISrmReportManager.CreateReport(_SrmReportType reportType)
at Microsoft.Storage.SrmMmc.ReportTask.SaveChanges(ISrmReportManager reportManager) For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp
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Operating System: Windows 2003 Ok not really all that helpful. After enabling logging for FSRM I found the following.. service\globalstore\globalstoremanager.cpp(0639): CGlobalStoreManager::VerifyName: - Invalid character '_' This pointed to the hidden system folder on the root of the C drive. C:\system volume information\srm\reports I unhid this folder and give myself permission to \system volume information and all subfolders which included \srm\reports I found old reports here with a underscore in the name. So to fix the issue you simply need to delete the SRM folder and subfolders.
Restart the File Server Resource Manager and Reports and the SRM folder is recreated. At this point the "An unexpected error has occurred. Please check application event log for more information." error was gone and I am once again able to create reports TIPS: If you haven't done so already remove any old reports under Windows\System32\SRM or from the location you specified to store your reports. Also never save the reports with an underscore in the name. Up Link Partner http://louisshanks.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!913464CD152C839E!184.entry
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