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SCOM – Comtrade Nutanix MP Beta Release Overview

Last week Comtrade invited me to a demo on their latest management pack product for monitoring Nutanix.  Comtrade is / was known for their outstanding Citrix management packs. These management packs cover, the entire monitoring experience from end-to-end and I mean in a real end-to-end experience. At the beginning of this year Citrix bought all […]

SCOM 2012 SharePoint Dashboard – Part 1

For my setup I used the Share Point Foundation 2010 on my System Center Service Manager 2012 management server  where I also installed the self-service portal. The following pre-requisites are needed: The Operations Manager Web Console must be installed on a management server. The SharePoint farm must be running SharePoint Server 2010 Standard, SharePoint Server […]

PowerShell – Create “Clean” Custom Objects From DataTable Object

I recently had a need to create “clean” PowerShell custom objects out of a DataTable object. What does that mean? Well, let me explain. When you try to get data out of SQL Server using PowerShell there are many ways to do it. Either you use Invoke-SQLCmd, SQL Server PowerShell (SQLPS), SQL Server Management Objects […]