I worked with MOM for some time and I am new to SCOM. I need to enable basic monitoring on SCOM 2007 R2 for Windows 2000/03/08 boxes. I have already installed SCOM and Management Packs. I need to know if there is any best practices to enable basic monitoring. Please provide me help to configure SCOM. If you have any steps to configure that would be helpful. Thanks, Soma

Hi, The following article is a good start of using SCOM: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2010/04/24/scom-for-total-newbies.aspx You can also refer to the following article about monitoring in SCOM 2007: Start Monitoring: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540366.aspx Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.