RepAdmin Script

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Here is a script I wrote a few years ago to email repadmin results to a specified email account. This provides a simple report on Active Directory replication. You can set this up as a scheduled task and receive a morning replication summary report. Someone asked me for this yesterday so I thought I...

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Service Level Dashboard For System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 Updated

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The System Center team at Microsoft has just released an updated version of the Service Level Dashboard (SLD) for Operations Manager 2007. The SLD helps you track availability of your line-of-business applications and provide reports based on that availability. For more information on this solution accelerator...

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OpsManJam Online – New System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 Site Online

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The Operations Manager product team has announced the availability of a new site focused on Management Pack development. OpsManJam is now online with some pretty cool Management Packs available. One thing I find very interesting is it’s a SharePoint site. I like the fact that Microsoft has decided to...

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Service Level Dashboard for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 Released to Web

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The Operations Manager team has just announced the release of the Service Level Dashboard for Ops Manager. This Management Pack allows it department report on service levels for various line of business applications. For full details on the dashboard and the download, check out the source link below...

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Updated System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 Management Packs Released

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Microsoft has released a few updated Management Packs to the MP catalog. These include and updated Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 OS MP which I plan to deploy as soon as I can put it through testing. The listing of all newly releases MPs can be found at the source link below. Source: Clive...

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Office Communicator Web Access Management Pack Available for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007

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The OpsMgr 2007 team has released a new Management Pack for monitoring Office Communicator Web Access. The Management Pack can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center. Source: Microsoft Download Center...

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Cross-Platform Management for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007

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Along today's big Virtual Machine management announcement, Bob Muglia also announced the public beta of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 Cross Platform Extensions. These extensions allow Operations Manager monitoring to be extended to non-Windows platforms such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux...

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System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 Authoring Console Released To Web

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The Operations Manager team at Microsoft just announced the release of the much anticipated authoring console for Operations Manager 2007. The Authoring Console allows you to easily develop and manage your own Management Packs for OpsManager 2007. For full details and download link check out the Operations...

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System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 SP1 Released to Web

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Microsoft has RTM'd SP1 for Operations Manager 2007. This update provides some performance improvements along with a DR solution for roles. SP 1 can be obtained from the Microsoft Download Center. Download: Microsoft Download Center...

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EMC Smarts and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 Integration Whitepaper

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Microsoft has released a good whitepaper on Operations Manager 2007 and EMC Smarts integration. This whitepaper outlines the integration points and how the two systems interact with each other to provide systems and network monitoring in a typical production environment. The whitepaper is available on...

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