21Apr 2008 by Grant Fritchey No Comments

SCOM Error

Tools
We've been getting a lot of alerts saying "Performance Module could not find a performance counter." It's been making me nuts. I finally did a search on the web and found an entry over on the Operations Manager Product Team blog. It's a known issues with SP1. I'm posting this, not because I'm complaining. I'm not. SP1 solved several issues that I had and I'm very happy to have installed it. Unfortunately, it introduced problems. Just not as many as it solved.
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21Apr 2008 by Grant Fritchey 2 Comments

SQL Server 2005 SP3

SQL Server
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Microsoft Connect really works. There has been a campaign going throughout the SQL Server community to get a new service pack out for SQL Server 2005. Microsoft had, at the very least, suggested that they were not going to release any more service packs for 2005. That's all changed now. I saw the announcement in Kalen Delaney's editorial from SQL Sever Magazine UPDATE. That's worth a read all on it's own. And consider this, 704 votes made this happen. That's 704 people who took the time & trouble to click their mouse a few times. If that's all it takes to influence Redmond, then you should all be over there using Connect as often as possible to get the fixes, changes or…
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