There will be times that we want to make changes to our agent configuration, and often times a script is the simplest way to do this on a large number of agents. Perhaps we want to add an additional management group to the agent, or enable/disable Active directory integration? The…
Resource Pools in SCOM 2012 are an advancement over SCOM 2007, where a resource pool can be used to host instances, that have targeted workflows, and make them highly available. This allowed the “All Management Servers Resource Pool” to host the instances that the RMS used to run in SCOM…
One of the powerful authoring capabilities of Visual Studio Authoring Extensions, is the use of “Snippets” to create lots of monitoring workflows with minimal effort. Snippets can be input manually, or they can use a CSV file with the input data already prepared. I had a request from a customer…
I had an interesting request from a customer. They wanted to collect events that would still continue to be collected, even when the monitored server was in maintenance mode. Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/Demo.UnhostedClass This presents an interesting challenge. When we place the “Windows Computer” object into maintenance mode, this…
I have written several posts over the years dealing with authoring groups. See many examples here: https://kevinholman.com/2010/07/27/authoring-scom-groups-from-simple-to-complex/ This post will deal with the concept that we might want to create groups in SCOM, of Windows Computer objects, based on the time zone setting for those computers. This might be useful…
We use the scheduler datasource in SCOM for workflows for all kinds of purposes. Most workflows have some concept of a schedule in the datasource to tell how often to inspect for something, like a service running, or to look at perfmon data, or to run a script. The most…
In Hyper-V versions prior to Windows Server 2012, a .bin file was created for each virtual machine, that was the exact same size as the memory allocated to the VM. This was to automatically reserve the disk space needed if you ever saved the state of the VM. It ensured…
The following article will cover a basic install of Data Protection Manager 2012 R2. A dedicated DPM server, and shared SQL server will be deployed. This is to be used as a template only, for a customer to implement as their own pilot or POC, or customized deployment guide. It…
This is to be used as a template only, for a customer to implement as their own pilot or POC, or customized deployment guide. It is intended to be general in nature and will require the customer to modify it to suit their specific data and processes. This also happens…
The following article will cover a basic install of System Center Service Manager 2012 R2. The concept is to perform a limited deployment of SCSM, similar to our deployment guide on TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh519675.aspx The deployment guide on TechNet demonstrates Service Manager in a Two Server model (typical for lab and…