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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Microsoft forefront client security - part 5

Finally in my last demo about microsoft Forefront client secuirty installtion contains the following:
  • Install Microsoft forefront client security server
  • Create forefront policy
  • Deploy forefront policy

You can download it from the following link
Microsoft forefront client security - part 5http://www.blogcastrepository.com/blogcasts/folders/windows_security/entry26737.aspx

Microsoft forefront client security - part 4

WSUS 3 is a great service you can use to update your current infrastructure servers and workstations
You can use my video to install WSUS 3 server in your environment it is a Microsoft free product.

Here in my demo I configure WSUS server specially for forefront client security server but you can do more in your WSUS server in your network to update other Microsoft product

You can download it from the following link
Microsoft forefront client security - part 4
http://www.blogcastrepository.com/blogcasts/folders/windows_security/entry26736.aspx

Microsoft forefront client security - part 3

The 3rd forefront blog cast contains how to install Microsoft SQL 2005 with SP2 to make your server ready to install Forefront server components

You can download it from the following link
Microsoft forefront client security - part 3
http://www.blogcastrepository.com/blogcasts/folders/windows_security/entry26732.aspx

Microsoft forefront client security - part 2

My second forefront blog cast contains how to prepare your server to install Microsoft forefront client security server
Contain the following items:

  • Install GPMC with SP1
  • Create DAS account
  • Configure DAS account as local administrator on FCS server


You can download it from the following link
Microsoft forefront client security - part 2
http://www.blogcastrepository.com/blogcasts/folders/windows_security/entry26731.aspx

Microsoft forefront client security - part 1

After long time working with Microsoft Forefront client security I have decided to prepare videos about how to install and configure Microsoft forefront client security
My first forefront blog cast contains how to prepare your server to install Microsoft forefront client security server
Contain the following items:

  • Install IIS and ASP.net
  • Install .NET framework 2
  • Install .NET framework 3

You can download it from the following link
Microsoft forefront client security - part 1
http://www.blogcastrepository.com/blogcasts/folders/windows_security/entry26723.aspx

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Monday, July 30, 2007

The Database Size Estimator for Operations Manager 2007

Ian Blyth provide us with a pretty spreadsheet to estimated Operations Manager database size based on number of agents and data transfer

the original post is Here

many thanks to : Ian Blyth - System Center Technologies
http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com

Operations Manager 2007 available documentation

Operations Manager 2007 Release Notes
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb309430

Operations Manager 2007 Supported Configurations
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb309428

Operations Manager 2007 Operations Guide
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OM2007_OpsGuide.doc

Operations Manager 2007 Backup and Recovery Guide
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/opsmgr2007_backup.doc

Disaster Recovery: OpsMgr 2007 Root Management Server on a Cluster
http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/attachment/1597917.ashx

Operations Manager 2007 Design Guide
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/opsmgr2007_designguid.doc


Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/opsmgr2007_deployment.doc

Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability White Paper
http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/3/6/d3633fa3-ce15-4071-be51-5e036a36f965/om2007_perfscal.doc

Operations Manager 2007 Security Guide
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/opsmgr2007_security.doc

Microsoft Management Pack Authoring Guide
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/om2007_authconsole.exe

Operations Manager 2007 Operations Guide
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/om2007_opsguide.doc

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Operations manager Knowledge Base (KB)

Operations Manager 2007 Support Tools requirements
http://support.microsoft.com//kb/938997/en-us

Error message when you try to import a management pack by using the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Operations Console or the System Center Essentials Console: "OutOfMemoryException"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933987/en-us

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Prerequisite Checker indicates that ASP.Net is not installed, even though Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 is installed
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934759/en-us

How to test notification settings after you configure e-mail notifications for a recipient or for a subscription in Operations Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934756/en-us

Error message when you click Record after you start the Web Application Editor in Operations Manager 2007: "The requested lookup key was not found in any activation context"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934757/en-us

Error message when you try to install a management agent in Operations Manager 2007: "Unknown error 0x80072971"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934760/en-us

A graphic that contains a red X may appear instead of an image after you perform a sort action in a Systems Operations Manager 2007 report
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934758/en-us

Error message when you try to install System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting: "The wizard was interrupted before Operations Manager 2007 could be installed"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936219/en-us

A frame that you resize continues to move together with the mouse pointer in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Web Console
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938990/en-us

You cannot configure a rule or a monitor to target a computer group in the Operations Console in System Center Operations Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938999/en-us

Subscription notification objects in System Center Operations Manager 2007 may not be displayed correctly on a computer that uses a regional setting other than "English (United States)"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938989/en-us
Error message when you try to enable Active Directory integration for System Center Operations Manager 2007: "The binary form of an ACE object is invalid"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938992/en-us

Some report information does not appear in Japanese in the Japanese version of System Center Operations Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938505/en-us

How to upgrade the 180-day evaluation version of System Center Operations Manager 2007 to the full product version
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937826/en-us

When you try to install Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting, the installation is unsuccessful
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938627/en-us

System Center Operations Manager 2007 cannot find some network devices by using the network device discovery process
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939364/en-us

The Entity Health monitor for an Operations Manager 2007 management server displays "Critical" together with a Health Service threshold setting
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938626/en-us

When you try to install Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 or you try to install Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007, the Setup Welcome page appears to be empty
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932812/en-us

You cannot deploy an agent by using the Discovery and Installation Wizard in System Center Operations Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938993/en-us

The Run As Account that you create in System Center Operations Manager 2007 or in System Center Essentials 2007 does not run a task successfully
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936221/en-us

You may be unable to delete a log file on a client computer in System Center Operations Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938988/en-us


ASP.net Web application exceptions may unexpectedly appear as monitored Web service exceptions when you monitor a Web service in System Center Operations Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938998/en-us

How to change the credentials for the OpsMgr SDK Service and for the OpsMgr Config Service in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936220/en-us

Error message when you run the Operations Manager Prerequisite Viewer for the Server component: "Microsoft.interop.security.azroles.dll is not registered in the global assembly cache"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937292/en-us

The Operations Manager Audit Collection Service does not start and Event ID 4668 is logged after you install Audit Collection Server from a read-only source
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936579/en-us

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Monitoring Windows Service using Operations manager 2007

Monitoring windows services with operations manager 2007 provide us with great tool to monitor our servers, and detect any service problems
Diagnostic and recovery tasks are available to analyze the system automatically when the service stopped without and administrator’s action to troubleshoot the problem.
Operations manager has the ability to start the service automatically and run any suitable recovery task to cover this failure.
You can create a Windows services unit monitor that you can use to generate an alert, run diagnostic tasks , and run recovery Tasks.
The tasks can be configure to run manually or automatically
The diagnostic tasks can be configured to run only commands
The recovery tasks can be used to run a script or commands
The task can only target the monitored objects only, and cannot target others This guide will discuss how to monitor windows services by example, configure diagnostic tasks, and configure the recovery tasks


download the guide from the following link
http://tarek.ismail.googlepages.com/Monitoring-Service.pdf
or contact me at Tarek_877@hotmail.com to get a copy