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SCOM Alerts from Windows Events
Having spent some time on the Service Model, I’ll start to look at some monitoring to help us build a Health Model. I’ll start with what is usually a straight forward requirement – monitoring a windows...
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Operations Manager 2012 R2 “Perfect Failover Service”.
Over my time using SCOM 2012 I have found that there is still some confusion about how the core of a SCOM Management Group, now with the Resource Pools, actually functions. You may have heard of the...
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Making your Product Connector Highly Available in OpsMgr 2012
During testing with a customer it was noted that the 3rd party product connector they were using to forward alerts did not work if the management server holding the RMS emulator role was unavailable....
View ArticleMonitoring Database Replication Efficiency in Configuration Manager 2012
In this blog post I want to look at DRS replication within System Center Configuration Manager and discuss some impacts that can be seen in a busy site. If you are running a single site environment,...
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Enabling the Microsoft Monitoring Agent in Windows JSON Templates
Remember the good old days when operating systems came on floppy disks and a cheese fondue was the height of culinary sophistication. These days, there is no need to worry about the dog eating disk 65...
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What's New With ConfigMgr's Client Notification Feature
With the release of Configuration Manager this month - ConfigMgr 1602, was the introduction of some new features within the console in regards to how an administrator can interact with a client. This...
View ArticleTroubleshooting PXE boot issues in Configuration Manager 2012
A very short one from me today, we recently published an interactive tutorial in troubleshooting PXE. Choose to get straight down to it or go through an overview and background of PXE first:...
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Update your VMM Managed Hyper-V Host Agents with PowerShell
Hey there, the kids are finally in bed and the dog is snoring on the sofa, which means I've got some time to get this blog finished. Firstly, I need to start this post with a caveat, a PowerShell...
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Setting System Center Orchestrator Runbook Operator Privileges
Hi, Common question I keep getting asked by my customers is: How do I set Orchestrator Operator privileges in specific Runbook contexts? This post is all about providing you with a simple and precise...
View ArticleDon’t forget the SSRS switches!!
A short post but I hope it is useful. SCOM has some great inbuilt reports that you can get to from the console. But what if you don’t want loads of consoles installed (there is a limit in a Management...
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