Automatic and Manual Resource Pools in Operations Manager 2012: Part 2 (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

infrastructure

There are multiple situations where it will be required to change the “All Management Servers Resource Pool” membership from automatic to manual.  From part 1 of this series see: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/07/24/automatic-and-manual-resource-pools-in-operations-manager-2012-scom-sysctr.aspx  What situations require these types of changes to the resource pools? 1) Network Monitoring Management Servers should be removed from the default pools per Microsoft…

Goodbye DCPromo it’s been fun!

infrastructure

Recently I spent some time installing my first 2012 DC into an existing Active Directory environment. I installed the server, logged in and ran dcpromo. And pretty quickly I felt the sinking feeling that “this is no longer your father’s domain controller installation”. So, how do we install a domain controller on Windows Server 2012?…

In OpsMgr 2012 how can I determine what sealed management pack a view is stored in? (#SCOM, #PowerShell, #SYSCTR)

infrastructure

As part of authoring on the upcoming System Center 2012 Operations Manager Unleashed book, I was recently trying to track down where some dashboard views were stored. They are built into OpsMgr 2012 and appeared to have been part of a sealed management pack. They are in the Application Monitoring folder, “Applications” and in the…