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PowerShell – JSON-RPC 2.0 Interaction Connecting SCOM

SCOM is the best monitoring system on this planet but there are also other systems around. You might find yourself in a situation where you need to get some information from the other monitoring system into SCOM. Because there is probably not a supported connector for SCOM available we have to find a way to […]

SCOM 2012 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup

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 MP–Management Group Information Report Version 0.1

I have been playing around for some time with the new SCOM PowerShell cmdlets and I wanted to write a management pack. So I combined both worlds and Management Group Information MP was born. The idea behind this “project” is to get all information from the SCOM infrastructure I possibly need as easy and as […]