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SCSM – Get Service Request Object From Any Nested Child Runbook Activity

When you are starting to automate stuff in your cloud environment you probably use SMA for automation and Service Manager to trigger the necessary runbooks in SMA. As this is really great stuff you will start facing many new challenges because you have to script in PowerShell to achieve your goals. Depending on your architecture […]

Not monitored Domain Controllers still showing under Windows Computers – Active Directory MP DiscoverAgentOnly

If you are monitoring Active Directory in a multi-domain environment you might only want to monitor certain domain controller because you don’t have the administrative sovereignty nor any permission to access the other systems.In that case you probably installed the SCOM agents to your domain controllers and imported the Active Directory management pack. If so […]

SQL Server – Gain Easy Sysadmin Access (!)

Today I had a very cool idea, which I like to share. A customer of mine had trouble with his SQL Server 2008 R2. Because of that, he needed to open SQL Server Management Studio for troubleshooting and then he realized that he was not able to login into SQL server neither with his domain […]