Installing Operations Manager 2007 on Windows Server 2008

Over the last couple of days I have had a few queries in regards to installing Operations Manager 2007 on Windows Server 2008. As you may be are this is definitely possible and on a project which I am working on at the moment this is the configuration which they require. I found it straight forward but there are a number of gotchas:

• Everything (as you would expect) is completely locked down in terms of security
• You must be are of key ports that OpsMgr uses as these will need configuring on the Windows Server 2008 firewall
• Remember that all Operations Manager 2007 web components require IIS 6.0 when you are installing the IIS server role

There is quite a bit of information on the forums at the moment in regards to installing Operations Manager 2007 on Windows Server 2008. Some of the best resources I have come across are:

Creating a Windows Server 2008 POC environment for OpsMgr 2007

(1) Creating a Windows Server 2008 domain - http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!695.entry

(2) Installing the Operations Manager 2007 databases component - http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!710.entry

(3) Installing the Root Management Server - http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!719.entry

(4) Installing the Data Warehouse - http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!728.entry

(5) Installing the OpsMgr Reporting Services Component - http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!768.entry

Installing the Reporting Services Component with Windows Server 2008

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