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SCOM 2012 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup
Posted on Author stefanroth
Once in a time there comes the question about the encryption key in SCOM 2012 (SP1). Older SCOM administrators were used to backup their SCOM encryption key using the SecureStorageBackup.exe utility in SCOM 2007 R2. This encryption key is essential for restoring a SCOM 2007 R2 RMS server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540390.aspx The root management server encryption key […]
SCOM 2012 – Maintenance Mode by Powershell, Orchestrator & SCOJobRunner
Posted on Author stefanroth
If you browse the web and you search for a solution to start maintenance mode in SCOM you will find many solutions. There are different approaches which are based on Powershell or Orchestrator but my intention was to to combine all of those and also utilize SCOJobRunner, Just for fun … The idea looks like […]
SCOM 2012 – Find SCOM Object for “Unknown” ID in Alert
Posted on Author stefanroth
There are sometimes alerts which might contain some strange id’s which are not as informational as you might would like have. One way to find out what is hiding behind this id is to use a SCOM Powershell command. As an example, today I received an alert that looked like this…