I work for a large hospital. There is a standard Windows 2000 disk image designed for workstations deployed in patient areas. This image is installed on nearly all new desktop systems, including those used to administer TSM and other centralized infrastructure. I recently had a Windows Administrator install Operational Reporting on my desktop system. I was initially unable to set up reports; Operational Reporting kept telling me I needed to enter a TSM administrator ID and password, even after I had entered that information repeatedly. I was able to set up reports after a Windows administrator changed some permission settings. I never at any point got an error message telling me that Operational Reporting was unable to save the administrator information.
I am now trying to resolve a similar problem with mail server information needed to e-mail reports. Here again, I have never gotten any error messages about problems saving the information. Operational Reporting claims to save the information successfully, but is subsequently unable to retrieve the information. It would appear that the developers made a policy decision that it was unnecessary to check the success of attempted registry updates.
