I really like to do presentations about the latest and greatest Microsoft Azure technology. One big security problem I always have is that e.g. Subscription ID, email addresses, keys etc. are visible on a big screen or visible in the session recordings afterwards. A very nice tool to hide such sensitive information is a browser […]
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SCOM 2016 – Start-SCOMAgentMaintenanceMode PowerShell Way
In SCOM 2016 there is a new way to set maintenance mode on your agent machine itself. Microsoft released a module to set the maintenance mode on the agent server itself. It uses a library (MaintenanceMode.dll) to set maintenance mode parameters on your monitored server. This DLL can be found in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring […]
SMA – Migrating SMA Runbooks (SMART Toolkit) Annoying Confirmation
To migrate SMA runbooks from one environment to another you probably want to use SMA Runbook Toolkit to export and import the runbooks and assets, you can find the download here. This toolkit is a collection of PowerShell scripts which are few years old but still work perfectly with SMA 2016. After you downloaded the […]
SCOM / SCSM – Retrieve Decrypted RunAs Account Credentials
I am not sure if you have seen it, but Richard Warren from nccgroup has figured out, how to decrypt the RunAs account credentials in SCOM. The problem up to now was, that there was no official way to retrieve the encrypted credentials from SCOM. There is just one DLL to use, which offers the […]
SCOM – Extensible Network Monitoring Management Pack Generator Tool
Microsoft just released the Extensible Network Monitoring Management Pack Generator tool which allows you to build custom SNMP management packs. In my previous post SCOM 2016 TP5 I have written a post about the prototype of this tool which was command line driven. I addressed some missing parts like a GUI, custom SNMP components and […]
SCOM 2016 – Network Monitoring MP Generator Tool
In one of my previous posts, I covered SCOM 2016 TP5 – What’s New and one of the topics mentioned was, that Microsoft will provide a tool to generate SNMP management packs. A what? Ok, let me explain. You are able to monitor network devices via SNMP. Well this is no magic and pretty common […]
SMA – ISE Add-On Editing Runbooks
A couple of month ago Microsoft released the latest (updated) version of PowerShell 5.0 . Why is this worth writing about? Well, with every new release there are some fantastic goodies included, you just need to discover them :). One of these goodies is (my) long awaited runbook editing capability for ISE. In this post […]
SCOM – Authoring History and System Center Visual Studio Authoring Extensions 2015
I usually don’t blog about new releases of management packs or similar things, but this time I feel I have to do so. If you have been working for some time with SCOM, you know there is a (long) history behind authoring MOM/SCOM management packs. Back in the days where MOM 2005 used to rule […]
OMS – Price & Size Calculator
You might have already heard of Operations Management Suite (OMS) or you are already using the free OMS version which is great, besides the limitations :). Now you are deciding to actually buy a licenses for your company and you don’t know how much the licenses will cost. Luckily Microsoft has created an online calculator […]
SCOM 2012 / SCSM 2012 – CMP Tool V 1.0 (Compare Management Pack Tool)
This blog has been quiet for some time because I was quite busy with all kind of stuff. Anyway, this time I would like to share a tool I created to compare management packs in SCOM /SCOM or SCOM/SCSM, SCSM/SCSM management groups. In real life it is hard to compare the current management packs installed […]