When you select many items in any of the views, some action tasks that you typically expect may not be available in Operations Manager 2007

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When you select many items in any of the views in the administration pane of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 console, some context-sensitive action tasks that you typically expect may not be available in the actions pane.

For example, if you select more than 10 similar items in the Active Alerts view, the Tasks action tasks and the Reports action tasks are not available in the actions pane.

This behavior is by design.

Context-sensitive action tasks are available when objects are selected. By default, to improve performance, action tasks are made available only for the first 10 selected items. Therefore, when you select more than 10 items, some action tasks are unavailable.

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If you want, you can change the default limit. However, you must make sure that the change does not affect the performance in the console. To change the default limit, you must add the TaskSelectedObjectsLimit registry entry under the following registry subkey:

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