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Installing MOM 2005 on SQL 2005 x64

Microsoft claims that MOM 2005 with SP1 supports installing to SQL 2005. This is actually true, however none of these articles make reference to the fact that the tools on the MOM CD (either momcreatedb.exe or the setup wizard) will correctly create the Read More...
Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 9:17 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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Site Fixed

I had some issues with the server this site is hosted on the last week of May/first week of June. Six weeks later I've finally gotten everything all fixed. I took the downtime as an oppurtunity to upgrade the software that runs this site and think Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:13 AM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Site Move/Upgrade

I decided to get a box, actually a virtual server over at www.bitshop.com . I'm in the process of getting that all squared away and working, and then I'm going to swing this site over, and hopefully in the process upgrade the blog software and get rid Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:09 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

Back!

My server amchine that I ran this site off of from the house lost its motherboard a few weeks ago. I've been so swamped I still haven't fixed it. To make things easier, I've moved the site off to a shared host instead. Hopefully will have some time to Read More...
Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 5:40 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments

MOM 2005 - Exchange Topology View

I've seen this question on the MOM newsgroups a couple of times, and it isn't immediately obvious to a newcomer: How do I get the Exchange 2000/2003 Topology diagram populated? The answer is, add an Exchange server in your organization to the “Exchange Read More...
Posted Monday, November 22, 2004 5:27 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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MOM Exchange MP Exception

If you get an exception similiar to the following when running the Exchange Management Pack Config Wizard, then you're in need of a hotfix for the .Net Framework. Error: Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of Read More...
Posted Monday, October 18, 2004 9:09 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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MOM05 Resource Kit Released!

Microsoft has released the MOM 2005 Resource kit which has a whole bunch of goodies. More info at www.microsoft.com/mom/reskit ! Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Monday, October 18, 2004 9:06 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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MOM2005 - Where are the manually installed agents?

By default, MOM's security settings reject any agents on the network which are not push installed from the admin console. In some environments this is impossible or illogical to do. An example of impossible would be a server where you have rpc/dcom shutdown Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:18 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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MOM 2005 MBSA MP Troubleshooting

The MBSA Management Pack in MOM 2005 is a particular bear to setup. I'm going to talk about one particular error below. Before I do that - “What is the MBSA MP?”. Simply put, it automates the MBSA or Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. The MBSA tool Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 02, 2004 9:20 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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MOM 2005 Documentation

If you're looking for how to configure a management pack, how to roll out MOm 2005, or other docs, they're all posted here: http://www.microsoft.com/mom/techinfo/productdoc/default.mspx . Microsoft has been adding new content pretty frequently since the Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 02, 2004 8:59 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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What ports does MOM 2005 use?

This seems to be a pretty common question - “What ports do I need to open for MOM?”. So, here's how it works: TCP/UDP 1270: All Agent Managed computers need to have this port open to your management server. This is the port over which management Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 02, 2004 8:57 PM by Brian Desmond | 0 Comments
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