MOM Team Blog: Custom Dashboard Authoring and Publishing Step by Step Guide
These are very cool free dashboards for SCOM 2012, and also a how to for using GTMTool.exe. …
Minor issue with the “Install Agent and Certificate on UNIX and Linux Computers Using the Command Line” documentation (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
The “Install Agent and Certificate on UNIX and Linux Computers Using the Command Line” document available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212686.aspx currently states:…
Storage Quick Reference
This is a collection of information about storage concepts such as Hard Drives, Disks, Partitions, Volumes, Snapshots, Shadow Copies. …
Error deploying OpsMgr agent to RedHat (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
During a recent OpsMgr agent deployment we were failing with a message that “The task cannot be executed against the…
Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) Part 1
I recently completed a project working with MBAM. I really don’t understand why more companies don’t use it to encrypt…
App-v Sequencing Best Practices
Sequencing an application with the Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) Sequencer, can be tricky business. However, you can greatly improve…
OpsMgr 2012 resource requirements and usage recommendations for Agent and Agentless monitoring (#SCOM)
The following is a summary of the statistics gathered during the deployment of an Operations Manager 2012 agent to a…
OpsMgr certificate expiration (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
Recently I had an opportunity to spend an hour with a group using OpsMgr in my former home-town. We discussed…
QuickTricks: How to bulk uninstall agents in OpsMgr 2012 by name in PowerShell (#SCOM, #PowerShell, #SYSCTR)
The following is a quick PowerShell script which uninstalls agents based upon matching a naming convention. This example identifies a…
Does-It-Work-In-OM12? xSNMP Management Packs (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
Topic: xSNMP Download location: http://xsnmp.codeplex.com/ Issues: The NetworkDevice class which xSNMP was built on for OpsMgr 2007 was depreciated in…