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Operations Manager 1801 – Quickstart Deployment Guide
There is already a very good deployment guide posted on Microsoft Docs here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/deploy-overview?view=sc-om-1801 The following article will cover a...
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Whats versions of SCOM can be upgraded to Operations Manager 1801?
If you would like to move your SCOM deployment on to the Semi-Annual Channel, what versions does Microsoft support moving from? The answer is here:...
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Monitoring AD Certificate Services on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows...
We have management packs for Active Directory Certificate Services on Windows 2012R2 and Windows 2016. WS 2012 and 2012R2: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34765 WS 2016:...
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Deleting and Purging data from the SCOM Database
First, I have to begin with a disclaimer – Microsoft does not support customers manually editing the database, unless under the guidance of a Microsoft support engineer with a support case....
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Implementing TLS 1.2 enforcement with SCOM
Quicklinks: Download Script Download Management Pack This is a requirement that I see is picking up steam with customers. Customers are getting told by their security teams that they need to...
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How to multihome a large number of agents in SCOM
Quick download: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCOM-MultiHome-management-557aba93 I have written solutions that include tasks to add and remove management group assignments to SCOM agents...
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MP Update: Windows Server 2016 MP version 10.0.21.0
Quick download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54303 This MP contains several updates and fixes, depending on what version you are currently running. 1. Time Sync...
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Assigning Gateways and Agents to Management Servers using PowerShell
Just publishing some common PowerShell agent and Gateway assignment commands I use on a frequent basis for SCOM: A common issue I find in customer environments, is that they do not set their agents...
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Get All SCOM Rules and Monitors, with their Alert details to a CSV
Quick Download: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Get-All-SCOM-Rules-853ecfde This is a script that will generate a list of all Rule and Monitors in a SCOM deployment. It will also gather...
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Awesome new transform tool available for testing SCOM scripts from MP’s
A new tool is available to quickly help you test scripts out of SCOM management packs. https://www.scom2k7.com/quickly-fix-scom-scripts-from-exported-management-packs-with-transform-tool/ This...
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Testing to see if a port is open to a SCOM server when you don’t have Portqry...
Something that I run across a lot in helping clients test connectivity issues in firewalled environments, is “is there a firewall blocking port 5723 traffic?” In the past we would use tools like...
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How to determine if your agents are firewalled from specific Management Servers
Had an interesting request - Customer is migrating agents from a complex environment into new management groups. Before they did this – they wanted to ensure that agents were not firewalled off from...
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Comparing Product Connector Subscriptions to Email Notification Subscriptions
Many years ago – SCOM was updated to have better granular control over Notification Subscriptions in the UI. We saw many improvements using controls based on group, class, specific rule or monitor,...
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Recovering a SCOM management server
It should be a rare occurrence to completely lose a SCOM Management server. Normally you would restore from a backup, or recover a VM snapshot in order to quickly recover a lost/damaged/corrupted...
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Adjusting Alert Storm thresholds on SCOM Agents
One of the features that has existed since SCOM 2007R2, is the ability to adjust Alert Storm thresholds on an agent by agent basis. The default is any agent that generates 50 alerts, in a 60 second...
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UR6 for SCOM 2016 – Step by Step
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4459897/update-rollup-6-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Download catalog site:...
View ArticleMonitor an agent – but run response on a Management Server
This is a concept that I have seen several examples of, but realize not everyone knows of this capability. You can create a rule, that targets a class hosted by an agent (such as Windows Server...
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How to discover and monitor a clustered application
Monitoring clustered applications is a little tricky. Clusters contains virtual, abstract objects, that could be hosted by one or more nodes. We need to ensure we always monitor the clustered...
View ArticleMy blog is moving – final post here
My blog is moving to a new home: https://kevinholman.com/ This will be my last post here. Most of my previous posts should redirect you to the same content on the new site. Please use the contact...
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