Thursday, April 26, 2007

Citrix Management Pack for SCOM 2007

The Citrix management pack for SCOM 2007 has been posted. It may be downloaded by logging into My Citrix.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Citrix Management Pack documentation for SCOM 2007

While the actually binary is not yet posted to My Citrix for download, the new Citrix Management Pack guide is available for download here.

ACS Report - System_Integrity_-_Audit_Log_Cleared

The ACS report System_Integrity_-_Audit_Log_Cleared displays any instance of the security event log being cleared. This reports displays the proper data when the audit log is cleared from the local machine. If the audit log is cleared by a remote machine, however, the remote machine name is displayed as having its event log cleared. For example, if I use computer management from workstation wrk101 to clear the security log from svr101, the report displays. The computer column should display srv101.

To workaround this, I've created a new report (from the existing report) and added the Computer field. The field used by the RTM report (labeled Computer) uses the Event Machine field.


RTM report

Computer

Cleared By

Date/Time

WRK101

Jeff

4/20/2007 1:29 PM


The report I created, displays the following:

Computer

Cleared By

Cleared On

Date/Time

WRK101

Jeff

SRV101

4/20/2007 1:29 PM

Friday, April 20, 2007

Operations Manager 2007 MP Catalog

Until very recently, selecting Operations Manager 2007 from the Microsoft Management Pack catalog site returned no results. Searching for available management packs for OM 2007 now returns 10 results – albeit all included with the RTM version.

Hopefully, this is a sign that we will begin seeing additional MPs in the near future.

Jeff

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Outlook 2007 Receives a Boost in Speed

Thought I would pass this along to those running Outlook 2007. I have experienced the sluggish performance mentioned in the article and KB entry and applied this update last week. Performance has improved tremendously…

Outlook 2007 Receives a Boost in Speed

Computerworld - April 14, 2007


Microsoft on Friday released an update to Outlook 2007 that is designed to speed up the communication software, which has been criticized for being sluggish.


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C262BCFD-1E09-49B6-9003-C4C47539DF66&displaylang=en

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Error when saving a recorded web monitor

I received an error when recording several web monitor sessions - "Array index out of bounds. Cannot fetch element with index=0 (Collection size=0)"

In each instance, the recorded session verified and tested, but would not save. In each of my recorded sessions, parts of the URL contained curly braces ('{' and '}'). By replacing any occurence of the curly braces with their corresponding escape sequences I was able to save and run the web monitor.

'{' = %7b
'}' = %7d

Jeff

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

ACS service fails to start - Access Denied

After installing Ops Mgr 2007 RTM I decided to tackle an ACS installation. The ACS database and application install went smoothly, but the ACS service would fail to start explaining that "Access is Denied".

I recalled reading a post by TheTallest in the ACS beta newsgroup that spoke of a similar issue. The 'solution' was to rename the AcsConfig.xml within the C:\WINDOWS\system32\Security\AdtServer directory and create a new file entitled AcsConfig.xml. Simply copy the contents of the old AcsConfig.xml to the file you just created with the same name and viola! - the service starts without issue.

Hopefully, Microsoft will speak up/fix the issue in the coming weeks.

Jeff