Thanks to Chris Ross of SCSM.US for sharing this great information! Here are a few little queries you can use to get some good information for use within ServiceMgr: From SQL if you want to view a MP’s xml… function Format-XML ([xml]$xml, $indent=2) { $StringWriter = New-Object System.IO.StringWriter $XmlWriter = New-Object System.XMl.XmlTextWriter $StringWriter $xmlWriter.Formatting =…
Here’s some disastrous notes I used as I was trying to fix the Network Discovery Internal MP. SITUATION: Unable to create network device discoveries or modify a current network device discovery. High Level notes of what ended up working, more detail below: 1. Backup the MP’s 2. Delete the Overrides MP you may have…
In order to upgrade to OpsMgr 2012, You must be at the minimum CU4 for OpsMgr 2007 R2. If you need to upgrade, you can go to CU6 first if you wish. If you are on OpsMgr 2007 R2 and aren’t currently running CU6, I highly recommend it. Here are the following fixes included in…
1. Download from here: · http://www.savision.com/download 2. Run the executable LiveMaps2012_V1011.exe 3. Click Run, at the Security Warning 4. The installer will extract the files for use during the Install 5. At the LiveMaps 2012 installation splash screen, click ‘Install Live Maps Authoring Console’ 6. At the Welcome page, click Next 7. At the License…
This article was written for a solution on Server 2008 R2 using Dell, but could still be a viable solution for Server 2012. Situation: There was noticable general slowness between guest communications as well as guest to host communications. This included file transfer, domain logon, and name resolution problems. What we checked: NIC Binding Order IP…
There are many things about data warehousing that are subjective. The use of surrogate keys is clearly not one of them. Let’s start with a quick refresher. Surrogate Key: A system generated value which uniquely identifies a record. Surrogates keys have no business meaning. Natural Key: A value that represents a real world object. …
Mark Thompson, of Time magazine, published an article today that made me smile. Sure it was partially due to good old American pride, but it was also my inner geek showing. Most people would probably read the article, titled “You’re a SEAL Stranded in Hostile Territory: What’s in Your Survival Kit?”, and focus on the…
Retrieve Message Tracking logs, sort by TotalBytes and save to txt file: Get-MessageTrackingLog -EventId SEND -Start "9/1/2011 06:00:00" -End "9/1/2011 20:00:00" -resultsize unlimited | Sort-Object TotalBytes -Descending | FT Sender, MessageSubject, TotalBytes > C:\test.txt Dump Message Tracking Results to CSV: get-messagetrackinglog -MessageSubject "Test Message to Verify Tracking Details" -Start…
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 Service Pack 3 was released very recently. Below is the Microsoft site to see what it does, what it fixes, and to download it. Enjoy http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2744025
In this blog, I’ll teach you how to upload a VM to Azure using eight steps, taking you through the whole process. Meme created by my co-worker Clay More. I would point you to his website/blog but he doesn’t have one. I love the above meme and it’s true. Uploading a virtual machine…
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