Agent Proxying Alert

Agent proxying needs to be enabled when health service discovers instance of some managed entity type for which management context doesn’t provide information that this exact health service will also monitor this instance.

alert:

Agent proxying needs to be enabled for a health service to submit discovery
data about other computers.
Source: 
Path:
Alert Rule:
Microsoft.SystemCenter.DiscoveryWriteActionModule.AgentProxyingNotEnabled.Alert
Alert description: Details:Health service (AA918247-6E40-E645-A2D2-9C8629CE0AAB) should not generate data about this managed object ( ).

Things you can do to find the error:

Execute following T-SQL against OperationsManager database:

select * from basemanagedentity
where basemanagedentityid = 'AA918247-6E40-E645-A2D2-9C8629CE0AAB'

Make sure that proxy is enabled for health service matching Path property.

Remember every DC needs the proxy enable setting !!!

see the full name below this is the DC that needs the proxy setting !!

For pushing the Scom agent to a ISA server you need to do some things.

First we have to make a rule and a protocol rule and then you can push the agent. here is a how to do this with a "nijntje manual "

Open ISA server                   

Create Protocol Rule

Use Port 5723 TCP ! this is the default Scom Agent port

Go to the scom server do a discovery pick the ISA server and push the agent

As you can see it works BUT but I tricked you. if you do this it may not work.

In the scom account settings there is a setting this account is a remote local account USE this and the agent push will succeed

Cool stuff. from the microsoft office lab

http://www.officelabs.com/projects/emailprioritizer/Pages/default.aspx

Project: Email Prioritizer



Click here to download.

Requirements: This prototype requires Outlook 2007 running on Exchange Server

Limitations: None

Last updated: 08/18/2008

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Email Prioritizer is a plug-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (running on Exchange Server) that helps you manage email overload. This concept test provides a “do not disturb” button that temporarily pauses new email arrival, and prioritizes email with a 0-3 star rating system. We hope this prototype helps you focus on the emails that are most important to you.



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Maybe you did know this but the HP servers have a insight display The new tool uses leds to show the status of the hardware components within the server.

Where can you find this on the new DL360. The display is hidden. It clicks open if you push a little button on the front panel of the server.

Advanced Group Policy Management

You can use Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) to extend the capabilities of the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), providing comprehensive change control and enhanced management for Group Policy objects (GPOs). Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management is a component of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance (MDOP SA)

With AGPM you can:

• Perform offline editing of GPOs, so you can create and test them before deploying to a production environment.
• Retain multiple versions of a GPO in a central archive, so you can roll back if a problem occurs.
• Share the responsibility for editing, approving, and reviewing GPOs among multiple people using role-based delegation.
• Eliminate the danger of multiple Group Policy administrators overwriting each other's work by using a check-in/check-out capability for GPOs.
• Analyze changes to a GPO, comparing it to another GPO or another version of the same GPO using difference reporting.
• Simplify the creation of new GPOs by using GPO templates, storing standard settings to use as starting points for new GPOs.

AGPM adds a Change Control node under each domain displayed in the GPMC, as well as History and Extensions tabs for each GPO and Group Policy link displayed in the GPMC.

Advanced Group Policy Management Overview

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=993a34d0-c274-4b46-b9fc-568426b81c5e&DisplayLang=en

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb767569.aspx

For more information: Advanced Group Policy Management datasheet
Also watch the AGPM video presented by Kevin Sullivan, Senior/Lead Program Manager in Group Policy Product Team (23 min)
Or listen to the AGPM talk on Technet Radio on AGPM (15 min)

Cool new Features with IIS 7 for a new Scom Site ( Webbased ) I had this problem with a Website NLB. SO I tried to test this new tool.

IIS syncronisation tool - tech preview released

For all those wondering what options you have post-Application Center 2000 for synchronisation (let alone load balancing etc), the IIS Product Group has released a technical preview of a new tool: msdeploy.exe. This tool can sync or migrate:

• IIS 7.0 configuration settings
• Web content
• Registry keys and values
• SSL certificates

It supports moving configuration, content, SSL certificates and other types of data associated with a web server. You can choose to sync a single site or the entire web server. Because we know that one tool can never ‘automagically’ guess what your application relies on, we’ve tried to be pretty flexible and powerful – you can customize exactly what you want to sync using a manifest file. You can also skip sites or other objects, or you can perform regular expression replacements during a sync (like changing the home directory on the destination machine).

The goal of the tool is to help you keep servers in sync, to make deployment easier and also to help with migrating to new versions of IIS. You could use a sync on two machines in a web farm, for example. Or maybe you need to move to a new server of the same version, you can use this tool. Of course, we also enable you to do a migration from IIS 6.0 to 7.0.

Download the x86 version or the x64 version of our Technical Preview 1.

What is faster USB or SATA with virtual servers you need disk io and memory. Stuart James did some testing with virtual server. tabels are from Ken Schaefer.

ExpressCard: http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=676511

2.5" External eSATA/USB case: http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=603610 (note that this comes with all cables you need, including eSATA to eSATA)

2.5" Hard Disk: http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=773812

Tests are performed using HD Tune 2.55 using a quick test.  It's the same disk just plugged in to a different socket so all other things (such as cache, RPM etc) are equal.

USB 2                                         eSATA

This tabel shows eSata is about 2x the speed of USB 2.0, provided you have a 7200 RPM disk (at the 2.5” form factor)