SCOM 2012 – Maintenance Mode Console Tool V 1.0
stefanroth In my last post I published a GUI based tool to put Windows and UNIX/Linux computer into maintenance mode. After great success, there were requests to have some sort of…
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SCOM 2012 – Maintenance Mode Tool V 1.0
From my customers and also in the forums I hear and read frequently the questions about setting maintenance mode from a monitored server. Let’s assume you are an administrator and…
SCOM 2012 – Get Alerts From SCOM Group Showing Alert Source Information (Management Pack, Object Path, Monitor / Rule Name etc.)
Well I don’t know why, but I got stuck again to PowerShell. It seams that this language solves many problems in a SCOM operator’s daily work. I had recently the…
SCOM 2012 – Comparing Deployed Agents vs. Active Directory Computer Objects (PowerShell)
It has been a moment since my last post, but I assume you know how everything goes crazy before Christmas. This time I would like to share a script which…
SCOM VSAE – Custom Dynamic Computer Groups Based On Server Registry Keys
As soon you are implementing SCOM, you are faced with grouping your servers. Either you use the groups for views, overrides or just in subscriptions. Which ever might be your…
White Paper – OpsLogix Oracle Intelligent Management Pack
This is just a short post about a blog post I wrote some time ago. OpsLogix is a company, which builds great management packs for SCOM. Because of that, I…
Quick Post – Mastering Windows Server 2012 R2 (Wiley/Sybex)
This post is very special and I am proud to announce that soon one of the first and currently most comprehensive books about the latest and greatest Windows Server server…
SCOM – Part 1 Create Excel 2013 PowerView Dashboard
Last week I had to travel to China. So far, I haven’t had any experience with Asian countries nor culture, except of the local Chinese restaurant in Switzerland. What I…
PowerShell 4.0 – Checking SCOM Required Ports
If you are going to install SCOM there are requirements which you have to be aware of. Microsoft has a great article on TechNet which describes precisely what the requirement…
Quick Post – Documenting Setups & Installations Smartly
I am a big fan of smart solutions and approaches. Today I had one of these moments which I really liked. I was going to update a SCOM 2012 environment…