SCE 2007 SP1 running in a VM W2003 machine and manging 2 other w2008 machines.Run the SCE console, go to Reporting tab and run (for instance) Windows Server 2003 Operating System / Performance History (Percent Procssor Time) report.Data Aggregation = HourlyFrom= This month, first dayTo = TodayAdd object, add the scrserver.domain.company.com (FQDN) object, object type Windows Computer.Click Run.Report opens up after spinning the green circle for a couple of seconds and it's blank apart form the graphical SCE heading then:Performance Report[+] Click on the plus sign to see a full description of this report.Report Time : Now()Data Aggregation: HourlyReport Duration: From 01/07/2009 14:30 to 16/07/200 14:30Histogram: Monthly by days.horizontal linebig blank areaFotter showing all dates and times are shown in (GMT)... Page 1 of 1Some reports like Essentials Reports / Software Summary work ok, but most are just blank.It seems those that should have some form of graphical display are just not rendering the graphics at all.Any ideas?

Hello,The following text is from Release Notes for System Center Essentials 2007 SP1: Issue: In System Center Essentials2007 installations where Microsoft SQL Server2005 Express Edition has been installed to house Essentials2007 data and host reporting, charts cannot be displayed in any reports that use Dundas chart control. Reports display everything but the charts (for example, the report header and footer, tabular data, and so on are displayed correctly). Charts in these reports are rendered as blank white space. The affected reports are: Alert Logging Latency Downtime Periods Most Common Alerts Most Common Events Performance Performance Detail Performance Top Instances Performance Top Objects In addition, if you import Management Packs containing any other reports that use the Dundas chart control, such as some Operations Manager2007 reports, the reports are similarly affected. Workaround: None. To generate charts, you must uninstall Essentials2007, install a different version of SQL Server2005 (Workgroup Edition, Standard Edition, or Enterprise Edition) on the Essentials2007 management server computer, and then reinstall Essentials2007. Hope it helps,Yog Li - MSFT

That will teach me to read the release notes correctly won't it? Thanks Yog Li.

It tells us sometimes the release notes could be useful. :)Glad to work with you.Yog Li - MSFT