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Orchestrator – Use Powershell (only) to Trigger Runbooks

Today I needed a solution which I could trigger a runbook using Powershell only. I found a very flexible and extendable solution on Codeplex.

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 2016 – What’s New UNIX/Linux Series: Agent Task Running Script e.g. Perl

I assume you are familiar with creating SCOM tasks and you know there are tasks that are executed on the SCOM console side (console task) and such that are executed on the agent (agent task). In the past you had only few options, like running commands on Windows and UNIX/Linux or scripts only on Windows […]