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SCSM – Apply SMA Runbook Template Using SMA / PowerShell

In my previous post I have written about adding activities to a service request using PowerShell SMLets. Well this just added the “empty” activities / “framework” but the activities were not configured yet. As an example I want to add a SMA runbook activity (using this method) and then apply a pre-configured SMA runbook template […]

SCOM 2012 – Event ID 7011 Service Control Manager Error

At a customers SCOM infrastructure I faced a very strange problem. The SCOM infrastructure consists of 2 management servers and 1 SQL server. Only one of the management servers stopped in certain time intervals responding to the agents and encountered the following symptoms: All agent computer which had this management server as primary management server […]

Azure Log Analytics – Get Windows Event Description

There are cases where Microsoft tries to make our live a bit harder than it needs to be. One thing I always struggled with in the old SCOM days and also in the present Azure Log Analytics (ALA) days are Windows event descriptions. I just had a need to get the event description for a […]