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UR12 for SCOM 2012 R2 – Step by Step
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3209587/system-center-2012-r2-om-ur12 Download catalog site: http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=3209587 NOTE:...
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Removing unwanted product connectors in SCOM 2012 R2 and SCOM 2016
There are certain management packs that will use product connectors to insert discovery data into SCOM, or to manage alerts. Sometimes, you might find that the vendor did not provide a way to...
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How to test your ACS filter to ensure it is valid
ACS (Audit Collection Services) in SCOM uses a WMI filter to reject certain events from being collected and stored in the Audit database. This filter supports about 4800 characters, so the filters...
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UR2 for SCOM 2016 – Step by Step
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3209591/update-rollup-2-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Download catalog site:...
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SCOM Agent Version Addendum Management Pack
One of the pain points in SCOM is keeping your agents up to date with your current UR level. What makes this worse, is the view in the SCOM Console for “Agent Managed” where you could actually fix...
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Recommended registry tweaks for SCOM 2016 management servers
I will start with what people want most – the “list”: These are the most common changes and settings I recommend to adjust on SCOM management servers. Simply run these from an elevated command...
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Management Pack authoring the REALLY fast and easy way, using Silect MP...
Silect MP Author Professional just added support for Visual studio fragments. If you didn’t get to attend the webinar on this – here is the recording. MP Authoring just got really...
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Enable proxy as a default setting in SCOM 2016
The default setting for new SCOM agents is that Agent Proxy is disabled. You can enable this agent by agent, or for specific agents with script automations. I find this to be a clumsy task, and...
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Agent Management Pack – Making a SCOM Admin’s life a little easier
This is a little example MP for some things that are possible with SCOM. It also serves as a good example MP on how to write classes, discoveries, and most importantly many task examples for command...
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How does CPU monitoring work in the Windows Server 2016 management pack?
First – let me warn you. The way SCOM monitors Processor time is *incredibly* complicated. If you don’t like it – there is *NOTHING* wrong with nuking this from orbit (disable via override) and...
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UR13 for SCOM 2012 R2 – Step by Step
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4016125 Download catalog site: http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=4016125 Updated UNIX/Linux Management Packs:...
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UR3 for SCOM 2016 – Step by Step
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4016126/update-rollup-3-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Download catalog site:...
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Installing SQL 2016 Always On with Windows Server 2016 Core
This will be a simple walk through of installing two Windows Server 2016 Core servers, then installing SQL 2016, and setting up SQL Always On replication between them. This is meant for lab testing...
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Stop Healthservice restarts in SCOM 2016
This is probably the single biggest issue I find in 100% of customer environments. YOU ARE IMPACTED. Trust me. SCOM monitors itself to ensure we aren’t using too much memory, or too many handles...
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Don’t forget to License your SCOM 2016 deployments
Just like previous versions of Operations Manager, all SCOM deployments are installed as “Evaluation Version” which is a 180 trial. You DON’T want to forget about this and have your production and...
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SCOM 2012 and 2016 Unsealed MP Backup
This is a management pack that I use in every customer environment. You *NEED* to backup your unsealed MP’s. This will allow you to quickly recover from a mistake, without having to restore your...
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Document your SCOM RunAs Account and Profiles script
This script will document your SCOM RunAs accounts, and any profiles they are associated to. It will output as a CSV file. This is handy for collecting data for change management, making sure...
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What SQL maintenance should I perform on my SCOM 2016 databases?
***Note – The products and recommendations have changed over the years, so what applied to previous versions does not really apply today. Make sure you read the entire article! The SQL instances...
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Reinstalling your SCOM agents with the NOAPM switch
This one comes from collaboration with my colleague Brian Barrington. Because of the issues with SCOM 2016 and the default APM modules impacting IIS and SharePoint servers….. (Read more about that...
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Updated SQL RunAs Addendum Configuration MPs
Just a quick note to let you know I updated these MP’s if you use them: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kevinholman/2016/08/25/sql-mp-run-as-accounts-no-longer-required-2/ Updates include: 1....
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