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Silect offers new MP Authoring tool – MP Author Professional
http://www.silect.com/content/mp-author-professional Building on the simple-to-use, free MP Author tool, they released MP Author Professional. It adds/extends many more monitoring scenarios to the...
View ArticleSilect MPAuthor version 7.0 released
The free version of Silect’s MP Author just released a new version: 7.0 http://www.silect.com/mp-author June 2016: MP Author Version 7.0 The enhancements in MP Studio and MP Author consist of a...
View ArticleSQL MP updates – version 6.7.2.0
The SQL Management packs have been updated. This is the first major release since 6.6.4.0, back in late 2015. I will list all the SQL MP below. Don’t import all of them unless you need each...
View ArticleSystem Center 2016 gets a launch date
System Center 2016 and Windows Server 2016 will be launched at the Microsoft Ignite conference in September 2016. Read about it here:...
View ArticleUpdated SQL RunAs addendum MP’s
Just a quick notice to let everyone know I updated my SQL RunAs Addendum MP’s. If you haven’t read about this, it is a new way to configure security for the SQL management packs which eases...
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How to add accounts from another domain into a SCOM User Role
Normally – when you have a trust with a remote account domain, and you want to add users from the rote domain to SCOM, things go perfectly. However, if the user account in the remote domain uses a...
View ArticleMP Update: Windows Server Operating System 6.0.7316.0 released
The base operating system MP’s have been updated: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9296 Previously, there were a couple interim releases that were pulled due to issues,...
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SQL MP Run As Accounts – NO LONGER REQUIRED
Over the years I have written many articles dealing with RunAs accounts. Specifically, the most common need is for monitoring with the SQL MP. I have explained the issues and...
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UR11 for SCOM 2012 R2 – Step by Step
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3183990 Download catalog site: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=3183990 NOTE: I get this question every...
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SCOM 2016 is available
Yes, yes, I know. Late to the party. Better late than never. For those that don’t know – SCOM 2016 was released at Ignite this year, on Sept 29th. It hit the GA milestone on October...
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VSAE (Visual Studio Authoring Extensions) updated for SCOM 2016
VSAE has been updated for SCOM 2016. Get it here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30169 Works great with my fragment library – which you can download and try out...
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OpsMgr 2016 – QuickStart Deployment Guide
There is already a very good deployment guide posted on TechNet here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center-docs/om/deploy/deploying-system-center-2016-operations-manager The TechNet...
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UR1 for SCOM 2016 – Step by Step
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3190029 Download catalog site: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=3190029 NOTE: I get this question...
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Enabling Scheduled Maintenance in SCOM 2016 UR1
When you try and use the new Scheduled Maintenance feature in SCOM 2016 UR1, you will probably see the following error pop up as soon as you select “Maintenance Schedules” in the Operations Console:...
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SCOM Console crashes after October Windows cumulative updates – Resolved
There is an issue where after patching your Windows Server or Workstation machine with the monthly cumulative updates – you might see you SCOM console crash with an exception. This affects SCOM...
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Deploying SCOM 2016 Agents to Domain controllers – some assembly required
Something that a fellow PFE (Brian Barrington) called to my attention, with SCOM 2016 agents, when installed on a Domain Controller: the agent just sits there and does not communicate. The...
View ArticleDoes SCOM 2012 R2 support monitoring Windows Server 2016?
This has been coming up quite a bit lately – The answer is YES, and we have updated the SCOM 2012 R2 documentation: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn281931(v=sc.12).aspx There is no...
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Monitoring UNIX/Linux with OpsMgr 2016
Microsoft started including Unix and Linux monitoring in OpsMgr directly in OpsMgr 2007 R2, which shipped in 2009. Some significant updates have been made to this for OpsMgr 2012. Primarily these...
View ArticleSCOM SQL queries
These queries work for SCOM 2012 and SCOM 2016. Updated 11/11/2016 Large Table query. (I am putting this at the top, because I use it so much – to find out what is taking up so much space in...
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MP University – Fall 2016 – Wednesday Nov 16th
I’ll be speaking at this free seminar, covering MP authoring using VSAE, and there will be many other topics covered: Silect proudly presents MP University Fall 2016 Edition! Please join us Wednesday...
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