Lynn Taggart from Microsoft, provided a SCOM Technology Update the other day. There are quite a few fixes included, most importantly to me, was a fix for the Report Server Upgrade issue I noted in my Upgrade SCOM 2016 to 1801 post. During the upgrade from SCOM 2016 to SCOM 1801, if the reporting …
One of my favorite new features added in Hyper-V 2016, was nested virtualization. Nested virtualization is a great feature for labs or demo environments, but also Hyper-V containers. It’s also useful for running the Azure Stack Development Kit. I’ll show you how you can quickly enable nested virtualization in Hyper-v using Powershell. Note, the only …
Monitoring Windows services in SCOM is a vital part of any SCOM deployment. In this post I will show you how you can automate the creation of SCOM windows service monitors. The first thing you’ll need is Tao Yang’s OpsMgr SDK which I initially spoke about here. The next thing you’ll need is, is the …
Sometimes when we automate things, some technologies don’t play nice with characters we’ve gotten from a different technology. Case in point, my recent post about documenting your SCOM Distributed Applications, I found a test case where a user entered a backslash in the name of a Distributed Application. When Powershell was trying to enter this …
I was recently on the Defrag This Podcast with Adam Fowler discussing problems and solutions to shadow IT. Some items we discussed were related to how and why shadow IT pops up. One of my answers was related simply to IT staff turnover or being understaffed. I worked at a company that did a reduction …
During my upgrade SCOM 2016 to 1801 post I noted that there may be a bug with the UI in 1801. Turns out it is a bug, but not with SCOM per-se. The issue is using high DPI screens, like the 4k monitors I use, in RDP sessions. What’s interesting is you can see the …
Want to try Azure Stack with the Azure Stack Development Kit? But maybe you don’t have the hardware to spare? But you do have the room to spin it up on your Hyper-V environment as a VM? This post will go over what you need, my experience getting it installed, and a script I created …