With the release of SCOM 1801, Microsoft has released a full HTML5 dashboard for SCOM. There are no more dependencies on silver-light. So how does the new dashboard compare to third party SCOM HTML5 dashboards? full disclosure: I have used SquaredUp for years in lab and production environments. I have recommended it to several clients …
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 …
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 …
Edit 8/27/2018: added Github link: Github repo here https://github.com/scautomation/Document-SCOM-Distributed-Aps For every consulting project I do one of the requirements is documentation. I like to provide more documentation than required, which is why I give my SCOM clients a general How To document if they are new to SCOM. I also provide documentation on the SCOM …
Updated May 3rd. Microsoft has released a fix for the report server upgrade issue. My post about it here. Updated Feb 15th for one of the but fixes mentioned below Updated March 15th for the High DPI Scaling issue Microsoft has released System Center 1801. Wait, that looks like a Configuration Manager build number. You …
Working with SCOM in the console and working with the SCOM Powershell module are two vastly different things. Powershell is much quicker, especially for getting lots of data and related objects at once. However, if you haven’t worked very much with the Operations Manager Powershell Module very much, these might be a few quirks or …
Creating SCOM Groups can be tedious. Creating dozens of SCOM groups each with multiple members can be a long task indeed. I searched and searched and thought surely someone somewhere has come up with some Powershell to do this task. I could not find anything. Enter Tao Yang and his OpsMgrSDK Powershell Module. If you …