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If Your RMS had failed prior to Service Pack 1, and you didn’t have a backup of your encryption key, You were in trouble. Your only option was to rebuild from scratch.

Now with SP1, we have a new CREATE_NEWKEY command line switch that can make recovering from a situation like this potentially much easier. We also made running the encryption key backup process a mandatory process of setup, just so you’ll have a friendly reminder.

So let’s take a look at a couple scenario’s:

1.  The Root Management Server is replaced or reinstalled and the key is not backed up or the password to the key is lost. There are no other Management Servers to promote.

Solution: Install a new Management Server (the RMS replacement) and be sure the computer name is the same name as the previous Root Management Server that is being replaced.  Setup will detect that the machine name is same as the Root Management Server in the database so it will recreate a new key and register the licenses.

2.  The Root Management Server is replaced or reinstalled and the key is not backed up or the password to the key is lost. There is at least one Management Server to promote to Root Management Server.

Solution: On the Management Server that will become the new Root Management Server, run MOM.msi with the CREATE_NEWKEY switch (msiexec.exe /i <Path to MOM.msi> CREATE_NEWKEY=1).  Configure the account for SDK/Config services (this account should have permission to the database, the SDK service account should be added to the SDK_users role, and the config service account should be added to the configsvc_users role).  Promote the Management Server to Root Management Server.

3.  The registry on the Root Management Server got corrupted, thus the encryption key is lost.
Solution: Run MOM.msi with special switch (msiexec.exe /i <Path to MOM.msi> CREATE_NEWKEY=1)

So does this mean you don’t have to worry about backing up your keys?  No, you should always backup your keys and keep them in a safe place as doing so will potentially save you a lot of trouble down the road, but now if something happens there’s possibly a way to recover without having to rebuild.

Backing up your RMS encryption key: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309563.aspx.

(Taken from: The Manageability Team Blog-http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2007/12/05/opsmgr-2007-what-if-i-lose-my-rms-encryption-key.aspx)

Check out this nice list I found wondering on TechNet.

Mandatory reference in all Hyper-V implementation.

You can now download VMM 2008 R2 Beta from https://connect.microsoft.com.

I’ve already tested it with Live Migration and it work great! (we had a demonstration for it at a Municipality Convention in Jerusalem recently) so take the time to play with it a little.

What’s New in VMM 2008 R2 Beta

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM) is a comprehensive management solution for managing virtualized infrastructure running on Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, Virtual Server 2005 R2 and VMware ESX through Virtual Center.  Recently, Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta was released which included significant feature improvements to Hyper-V-the underlying hypervisor platform.  A corresponding beta version of VMM R2 – the next version of VMM – is due for release shortly.  VMM R2 Beta  leverages the new platform enhancements and extends the feature set of VMM 2008. This overview highlights the most important new and significantly enhanced features in the VMM 2008 R2 Beta:

Support for new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta

• Live Migration: – Seen through the VMM console, this enables administrators to move virtual machines from one machine in a virtual host cluster to another with no downtime. This allows administrators greater flexibility in responding to planned or unplanned downtime, provides higher machine availability and more robust fault tolerance within virtualized infrastructure. The basic requirements for Live Migration are that all hosts must be part of a cluster and host processors must be from the same manufacturer. Additionally all hosts in the cluster must have access to shared storage. No changes are required to existing virtual machines, network, or storage devices in moving from Quick Migration to Live Migration other than upgrading to beta versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 and VMM 2008 R2.
• Hot addition/removal of VHDs: Allows the addition and removal of new virtual hard disks (VHDs) on a running virtual machine. This enables storage growth in virtual machines without downtime. Additionally, ‘live" VHD management allows administrators to take advantage of additional backup scenarios and readily use mission critical and storage-intense applications (eg: SQL Server and Exchange).
• New optimized networking technologies: VMM 2008 R2 Beta supports two new networking technologies – Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) and TCP Chimney – providing increased network performance while demanding less CPU burden. NICS that support VMQ, create a unique virtual network queue for each virtual machine on a host that can pass network packets directly from the hypervisor to virtual machine. This speeds throughput as it bypasses much of the processing normally required by the virtualization stack. With TCP Chimney, TCP/IP traffic can be offloaded to a physical NIC on the host computer reducing CPU load and improving network performance.

Enhanced storage and cluster support

• Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV): Provides a single, consistent storage space that allows virtual hosts in a cluster to concurrently access virtual machine files on a single shared logical unit number (LUN). CSV eliminates the previous one LUN per virtual machine restriction and coordinates the use of storage with much greater efficiency and higher performance. CSV enables the Live Migration of virtual machines in and out of the shared LUN without impacting other virtual machines. Enabling CSV on failover clusters is straightforward and easy to monitor through the VMM administrator’s console; many storage configuration complexities prior to CSV have been eliminated.
• SAN migration into and out of clustered hosts: This allows virtual machines to migrate into and out of clustered hosts using a SAN transfer, which automatically configures the cluster nodes to recognize and support the new workload.
• Expanded Support for iSCSI SANs: Previously, only one LUN could be bound to a single iSCSI target whereas now — with VMM 2008 R2 Beta — multiple LUNS can be mapped to a single iSCSI target. This provides broader industry support for iSCSI SANs allowing customers more flexibility in choosing storage providers and iSCSI SAN options.

Streamlined process for managing host upgrades:

• Maintenance Mode: Allows administrators to apply updates or perform maintenance on a host server by safely evacuating all virtual machines to other hosts on a cluster using Live Migration or putting those workloads into a saved state to be safely reactivated when maintenance or upgrades are complete. Maintenance mode is enabled for all supported hypervisor platforms on Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta.

Other VMM 2008 R2 Beta enhancements

• Support of disjoint domains: Reduces the complexity of reconciling host servers with differing domain names in Active Directory and DNS. In these situations, VMM 2008 R2 Beta automatically creates a custom service principal name (SPN) configured in both AD and DNS allowing for successful authentication.
• Use of defined port groups with VMware Virtual Center: On installation, VMM 2008 R2 Beta will present available port groups for VMM’s use with VMware Virtual Center thus allowing administrators to maintain control over which port groups are used.

Check out this nice list I found wondering on TechNet. Mandatory reference in all Hyper-V implementation.

Microsoft has released a new document to help you create custom reports.

You can download it here.

Overview

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 queries SQL Server views in the Configuration Manager site database when retrieving the information displayed in reports. The Configuration Manager site SQL database contains a large collection of information about the network, computers, users, user groups, and many other components of the computing environment. The database also contains objects that represent Configuration Manager 2007 items such as advertisements, software update deployments, configuration baselines, reports, and status messages. Configuration Manager administrators need to understand the different categories of the SQL views, what information is stored in each view, and how the SQL views can be joined to one another to create reports that return the desired information.

The Windows Installer CreatingCustomReportsByUsingSQLViews.msi package provides information that will help you to create custom reports, determine which Configuration Manager SQL views contain the information you need for your reports, and identify a path between the necessary SQL views and determine what columns can be used to join them. The download package includes the following files:

• Before You Use – Readme document (BeforeYouUse_Readme.doc)-
Provides information about how to use the other documents in the Windows Installer download package.
• Using Configuration Manager 2007 SQL Views to Create Custom Reports help file (CM2007CustomReports.chm)-
Provides an overview of the Configuration Manager 2007 SQL view schema and SQL views, an overview of the existing reports and associated reporting procedures, sample SQL statements for each Configuration Manager SQL view category, scenarios for creating custom reports, exercises for creating custom reports, an overview for writing report SQL statements, and an overview of the Configuration Manager Provider WMI schema. This documentation will be your main resource throughout the process of creating your custom report.
• Configuration Manager 2007 SQL View Schema Microsoft Visio document (CM2007SQLViewsSchema.vsd)-
Provides the Configuration Manager 2007 SQL views schema, organized by category.
• Configuration Manager 2007 SQL Views Excel spreadsheet (CM2007SQLViews.xls)-
Provides a list of the Configuration Manager 2007 SQL views with descriptions, a list of the SQL views and columns ordered by SQL view name, and a list of the SQL views and columns ordered by column name.

Based on hypervisor technology, the Hyper-V™ virtualization feature in the Windows Server® 2008 operating system is a thin layer of software between the hardware and the operating system that allows multiple operating systems to run, unmodified, on a host computer at the same time. Hyper-V is a powerful virtualization technology that can be used by corporate IT to consolidate under-utilized servers, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) and maintaining or improving quality of service (QoS). Hyper-V opens more potential development and test environment types that otherwise might be constrained by hardware availability.

It is challenging enough in general to right-size the hardware to consolidate current workloads and provide headroom for growth. Adding virtualization to the mix increases the potential capacity planning challenges. The goal of this document is to help address these by focusing on two key areas of running Microsoft® SQL Server® in a Hyper-V environment:

• System resource overhead imposed by running SQL Server in a Hyper-V environment

• How well Hyper-V scales running SQL Server 2008

This white paper describes a series of test configurations we ran, which represented a variety of possible scenarios involving SQL Server running in Hyper-V. The paper discusses our results and observations, and it also presents our recommendations. Our test results showed that SQL Server 2008 on Hyper-V provides stable performance and scalability. We believe Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is a solid platform for SQL Server 2008 for the appropriate workload. It is practical to run production workloads under a Hyper-V environment, as long as the workload is within the capacity of your Hyper-V guest virtual machine.

For more information, please refer to the whitepaper Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment – Best Practices and Performance Recommendations.

It’s fairly simple to monitor a web page in OpsMgr 2007 by using the web application monitoring feature. In this post I’ll show you how it’s done and how to configure a recovery task to execute a command or a script when the monitor status becomes critical.

Create Web Application using the following procedure (taken from http://sharepointnotes.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/web-application-monitoring-with-system-center-operations-manager/, If credentials are needed read the original post) :

1. Log on to the computer with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager Authors role for the Operations Manager 2007 Management Group

2. In the Operations Console, click the Authoring button

3. Expand Management Pack Templates and right-click Web Application. Select Add monitoring wizard

4. Select Web Application and click Next

5. Enter Name and Description and click Next

6. Enter and test the URL and click Next
   The test will fail in the web site requires credentials but they can be provided later

7. Select the node that will act as the watcher node and enter time time interval at which the test will run. Click Next
   The Watcher Node must be an agent managed computer and have access to the web site

8. Click Create

After the Web Application Monitor is created do as follows in order to configure a recovery task:

1. Open Web Applications under the authoring pane, Open the monitors screen:

2. Right Click the monitor under Entity Health > Availability and choose properties:

3. Switch to the diagnostics and recovery pane and choose Add in the recovery section, click the recovery for critical state option:

4. Follow the wizard, it allows you to configure a command or a script that will be executed when the monitor state becomes critical.

If you need to restart a service, You can create a batch file that uses the “Sc Stop” and “Sc Start” commands to restart the service on the remote computer (Use sc /? to get more info). Don’t forget to configure the monitor recovery task to use it

How Microsoft IT Implements System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032322478&CountryCode=US

Assure the Availability and Performance of Your SharePoint Environments (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032368298&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032348673&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032341228&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 100)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032340080&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

End-to-End Service Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032345599&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Installation and Management Pack Migration of Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032369730&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032343631&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Planning a Successful Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 Deployment with Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007 (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032348510&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Reporting with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032338857&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Security and Enterprise Features of System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032343649&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

SQL Server 2008: New Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting Using Management Studio (Level 300)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032349947&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Installation and Management Pack Migration (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032341254&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Technical Overview (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032340808&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

System Center Operations Manager 2007: Install and MP Migration (Level 200)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032345595&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Main Downloads page (catalog, documentation)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498232.aspx

Operations Manager Product Team Blog:

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam

SystemCenterForum.org

http://www.systemcenterforum.org

System Center Content Search (Vista gadget)

http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=49e26ad0-113d-4f3d-a711-57f6530c75d9

System Center Operations Manager Blog Search:

http://search.live.com/macros/microsoft_user_assistance/sc_operations_manager_blogs

Event Flow Diagram

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2007/10/30/event-alerts-perf-data-flow-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx

DWDATARP.exe (For setting Data Retention policies in the Warehouse)

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/05/14/data-warehouse-data-retention-policy-dwdatarp-exe.aspx

End-To-End Task test:

http://www.systemcenterforum.org/testing-end-to-end-notification-in-opsmgr-or-essentials-2007-mp/

Targeting Best Practices Poster:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/a/7/fa73e146-ab8a-4002-9311-bfe69a570d28/BestPractices_Rule_Monitor_REV_110607.pdf

Best practices to use when you configure overrides in System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943239

Authoring Guide:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OM2007_AuthGuide.doc

Effective configuration Viewer:

http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a9db4dca-6716-478d-89b9-42f27ebc76a8&displaylang=en

Override Explorer:

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/attachment/4301837.ashx

Group membership:

http://www.systemcenterforum.org/list-ops-mgr-group-membership-using-powershell

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/10/26/which-groups-is-a-particular-computer-member-of.aspx

Management Group Configuration tool:

http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2007/06/04/mginfo-management-group-license-and-summary-info-utility-for-operations-manager-2007-and-essentials-2007.aspx

Maintenance mode Scripts:

http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2007/09/18/agentmm-a-command-line-tool-to-place-opsmgr-agents-into-maintenance-mode.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2008/03/04/one-more-maintenance-mode-script.aspx

How Microsoft Does IT (includes MOM 2005 and Ops Mgr documents):

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687791(TechNet.10).aspx

(from http://www.microsoft.com/itshowcase)

Certificates for Windows 2008 and Ops Mgr:

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/06/02/obtaining-certificates-for-ops-mgr.aspx

Adding Custom Information to alerts and Notifications:

http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2007/12/12/adding-custom-information-to-alert-descriptions-and-notifications.aspx

Last contact time Style reports:

http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/06/27/which-servers-are-down-in-my-company-and-which-just-have-a-heartbeat-failure-right-now.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/06/27/creating-a-new-data-source-for-reporting-against-the-operational-database.aspx

Converting an MP to XMl (unseal it)

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/08/16/unsealing-a-management-pack.aspx

Powershell basics:

http://blogs.msdn.com/scshell/

http://blogs.msdn.com/scshell/archive/2006/09/28/getting-started.aspx

Powershell script examples:

http://blogs.technet.com/brianwren/archive/2008/03/11/mms-command-shell-presentation.aspx

Effective Config Viewer:

http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a9db4dca-6716-478d-89b9-42f27ebc76a8&displaylang=en

Developing MPs

http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/3740486

Enable Proxying on Agents UI

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/08/02/enabling-proxying-for-agents.aspx

What Thresholds Monitors Have

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/08/07/so-what-thresholds-do-my-monitors-have.aspx

Boris Yanushpolsky’s blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/default.aspx

Bulk Enable / Disable of rules or monitors (Override Creator):

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/08/04/disabling-enabling-multiple-rules-monitors-discoveries-at-once.aspx

New KB Articles / Hotfixes Summary:

http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/rss.aspx?Tags=New%20and%20upcoming%20KB%20Articles/Operations%20Manager%202007&AndTags=1

Update Custom Fields

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.opsmgr.powershell&tid=0bdee97c-95b6-4074-9eff-f7edca3d0ff2&cat=01DE69DE-CFDB-E7B7-8849-BF4BC19A6B88&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=&p=1

http://www.systemcenterforum.org/updating-custom-fields-in-alerts-operations-manager-2007/

Design Reports in SCOM:

http://opsmgr.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/want-to-design-a-new-report-in-scom-2007/

DB IOPS Performance

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/06/24/performance-iops-for-the-db-and-dw-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx

DW Backup and Grooming:

http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid68_gci1316214,00.html

Creating tasks:

http://www.systemcenterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/PowershellTasks_v1.0.pdf

Planning and designing the infrastructure:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD3921FB-8224-4681-9064-075FDF042B0C&SAMI_Campaign_Name=IPD062708RTM_IPDDL&displaylang=en

Operations Manager Training Videos:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498237.aspx

Publishing Reports to Sharepoint:

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/02/29/publish-reports-to-sharepoint.aspx

Operations Manager Reporting Guide:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OpsMgr2007_RprtGuide.doc

Configuring notifications for a specific alert:

http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/02/01/configuring-notifications-to-include-specific-alerts-from-specific-groups-and-classes.aspx

System Center Capacity Planner:

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sccp/default.mspx

Operations Manager Authoring Console:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/4/3/f438d6a0-290c-42b8-8f9c-c6660f89e1aa/OpsMgr07_x64_AuthConsole.exe

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/4/3/f438d6a0-290c-42b8-8f9c-c6660f89e1aa/OpsMgr07_x86_AuthConsole.exe

SQL Server 2008 is now supported on Configuration Manager 2007 RTM and SP1

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (RTM and SP1) now supports the use of SQL Server 2008 as a site database.  In order to upgrade a site-server database to SQL 2008 there are 2 hot fixes required:

• ConfigMgr 2007 RTM customers must apply hot fix KB955229
• ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 customers must apply hot fix KB955262

The following are requirements when performing a clean install on a SQL Server 2008 database:

• A clean install of ConfigMgr 2007 RTM on a SQL Server 2008 database is not supported.  You must first install SQL Server 2005, upgrade to SQL Server 2008 and then apply hot fix KB955229
• A clean install of ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 on a SQL Server 2008 database is supported, but should apply hot fix KB955262

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is now supported for Configuration Manager 2007 RTM and SP1

Support will be provided for client management, site server roles, and the administrator console running within a Hyper-V environment.   There are no hot fixes required for the release to support configuration scenario.  This applies to customers running Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V RTM installed.

Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.0.03 is now supported on Configuration Manager 2007 RTM and SP1 with the ACT Connector

Customers leveraging the ACT Connector may download ACT 5.0.3 which released on September 2, 2008.  The following is a summary of the Application Compatibility Toolkit Connector:

Update Compatibility Evaluator: Update Compatibility Evaluator Now Supports Vista and Server �08 in addition to Win2K, XP and Server �03 that were previously supported.

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Support: We now support Windows Internet Explorer 8. The Internet Explorer Compatibility Evaluator as well as the Internet Explorer Compatibility Test Tool are capable of identifying issues on websites and web applications when they are run on IE8.

Major Bug Fixes:

SUA:

• SUA Crashes if AppVerifier Log Entry is Badly Formed
• Failure to Create Shim Database Entry if Product Name Contains Special Characters: SUA was unable to create a shim database entry for an application if the application name contained special characters. This issue has been resolved in ACT 5.0.3.
• CorrectFilePaths Shim Fix: There was a bug in the Standard User Analyzer because of which the CorrectFilePaths shim (used to redirect the path to which files created by the application are written) was only shimming a single file-path relocation even if multiple files needed to be redirected. This has been fixed in the current version of ACT.

ACM:

• The Application Compatibility Manager no longer requires elevation of user privileges to run in Vista.

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is now supported on Configuration Manager 2007 RTM and SP1

The .NET Framework 2.0 is a dependency for the Admin Console and the Desired Configuration Manager (DCM) feature of the client.  Typically the .NET Framework is a side-by-side (SxS) installation so compatibility is not a concern.  However, the .NET Framework 3.5 install performs an upgrade to the .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0 behind the scenes, this is now fully supported.