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Program Manager position in OpsMgr Team
We are looking for a program manager to help extend the product's capabilities in the area of...
Date: 05/08/2009
Which discovery found the object
One of the interesting challenges that I have seen some customers experience is understanding which...
Date: 04/28/2009
Problem with the IIS Modules QFE (957123)
We have found a problem with the IIS Modules QFE and working on fixing it. In the meanwhile, the...
Date: 02/24/2009
IIS 7.0 Management Pack is now on the MP Catalog!
In order for the IIS 7.0 MP to properly work, you will need to install an agent QFE which drops a...
Date: 02/23/2009
Windows Server 2008 Cluster MP is now available!
I have seen a number of questions on this in the past so I am happy to announce that we just...
Date: 02/12/2009
Great new blog
I just got a mail today from Marco Shaw about a great new blog authored by Daniele Grandini and...
Date: 01/21/2009
What if my discovery script fails?
Discovery is a very core feature of a management pack. Bugs in discovery can literally screw up the...
Date: 12/19/2008
Populating groups from external sources
Groups are one of the most used areas of functionality in Operations Manager. When you are creating...
Date: 10/26/2008
VladJ is now a blogger
If you are a partner or attended MMS or ITForum or work with OpsMgr for a while I am pretty sure you...
Date: 10/24/2008
Configuring rules to run during business hours only
I have heard the question about creating rules that execute only during a certain set of hours many...
Date: 09/19/2008
What is the state of a particular monitor for all of my objects?
I saw an interesting question today on one of the newsgroups. Basically the question was "How can I...
Date: 09/12/2008
MPViewer 1.7 - Now works with latest E12 MP
Thanks Stefan for reporting that MPViewer export to HTML functionality didn’t work with the latest...
Date: 06/24/2008
Automating port monitoring using PowerShell
A while I wrote a blog entry about how you can automate the creation of URL monitoring logic in...
Date: 06/20/2008
MPViewer 1.6 - Exporting to Excel
This updated version of MPViewer will allow you to export data to Excel in addition to the HTML...
Date: 06/19/2008
Module Explorer V2
In v1 of module explorer I enumerate code based modules and then populated the tree view with...
Date: 06/18/2008
Monitoring Windows 2008 Clusters
Are you interested in participating in a private beta program for the Windows 2008 Cluster...
Date: 06/04/2008
On Demand Detection
A really useful feature of Health Explorer in Operations Manager is the ability to force the agent...
Date: 06/03/2008
MPViewer 1.5 - Performance rules and monitors
I finally had a bit of time to work on improving MPViewer so here is a new a version. The main...
Date: 06/03/2008
Microsoft.Unix.Computer
The cross platform team has started a blog to talk about the work they are doing to enable...
Date: 05/05/2008
Why cant I find the datawarehouse properties report?
During the Best Practices session at MMS we have shown the DW properties report. The one thing I...
Date: 05/05/2008
MP Backup
Here is a script that I wrote last night to demonstrate how you can implement a simple MP backup...
Date: 04/30/2008
What do YOU think about the Cluster Management Pack?
Several weeks ago we released an update to Windows 2003 Cluster MP to address several customer...
Date: 04/18/2008
Cluster MP Upgrade
Looks like there is some confusion as to the what exactly needs to be done in order to upgrade to...
Date: 04/04/2008
Windows 2003 Cluster Management Pack update is now available on MP Catalog
We have just posted an updated version of the Windows 2003 Cluster Management Pack. This update...
Date: 04/02/2008
MP authoring samples - NT service based discovery
One of the things that I have been wanting to cover in this blog is advanced MP authoring. Lately I...
Date: 03/31/2008
MPViewer 1.4
I recently saw an interesting mail thread about how does one figure out which MPs will work for...
Date: 03/25/2008
You can now download the SDK documentation for offline use
A number of people have asked for the SDK documentation to be downloadable in addition to being on...
Date: 03/13/2008
The Cluster MP is ready!
The long awaited cluster management pack for Windows 2003 is finally ready. The MP package contains...
Date: 03/04/2008
One more maintenance mode script
Attached is a script that takes a group and puts all the computers in the group (as well as the...
Date: 03/04/2008
Why cant I configure an event view to show events collected only by my rule?
While writing a management pack today, I came across an interesting issue. When you create an event...
Date: 02/28/2008
Run As profile configuration helper v1
When you deploy a management pack and the action account is configured as a low priv account, some...
Date: 02/28/2008
ModuleExplorer v1
One of the core concepts in OpsMgr is modules. There are four modules types in OpsMgr: DataSource,...
Date: 02/27/2008
MPViewer 1.3
Added another several small features in this version: 1 - The target of a rule/monitor 2 - The type...
Date: 01/31/2008
Troubleshooting event id 33333 logged by the DataAccessLayer
Sometimes after installing an agent or importing a management pack you may see event number 33333...
Date: 01/23/2008
Creating overrides using the SDK
Here is some sample code that I wanted to share for creating overrides using the SDK. In scenarios...
Date: 01/17/2008
Creating a new task with overridable parameters
Couple of days ago I saw a question on one of the newsgroups regarding creating a task where the...
Date: 12/11/2007
Enumerating Windows Event log manual reset monitors
Couple of days ago I saw a question about how can one find out the list of manual reset event log...
Date: 12/08/2007
Targeting poster
Below is a link to a targeting poster that we have created to help select the proper targets when...
Date: 11/27/2007
OpsMgr SP1 – Creating rules and monitors for multi instance components
When creating a monitor or a rule for a multi instance component you need to be very careful or else...
Date: 11/21/2007
Retrieving rules and monitors targeted to a particular class (target)
This question came up several times in various forums so I wanted to post a sample script that shows...
Date: 11/21/2007
OpsMgr SP1 - Removing instances for which discovery is disabled
One of the issues that we saw in OpsMgr RTM is that if you disabled a discovery using an override...
Date: 11/20/2007
Creating a performance collection rule using the SDK
Here is a sample that demonstrates how to create a performance collection rule using the SDK. The...
Date: 11/01/2007
Including the NT service info in the alert description
When creating a NT service unit monitor, you might want to include in the alert description the...
Date: 10/31/2007
MP Viewer 1.2
I added a couple of things that people have asked for: The ability to save to HTML. Looks like quite...
Date: 10/30/2007
What's in my groups?
Here is a script I put together that demonstrates how to retrieve all the groups and then retreive...
Date: 10/26/2007
Creating an Event Log unit monitor using the SDK
Here is a sample of how you can create an event log unit monitor. As you can see it's very similar...
Date: 10/26/2007
Creating NT Service unit monitor using the SDK
This came up several times so I decided to write a blog post on how you can create a unit monitor...
Date: 10/26/2007
Which groups is a particular computer member of?
Given that groups are used for role based security, overrides, reports, and some other features, it...
Date: 10/26/2007
Including the event info in the alert description
When creating a Event Log unit monitor, you might want to include in the alert description the event...
Date: 10/23/2007
Including the performance counter info in the alert description
When creating a Windows Performance Counter unit monitor, you might want to include in the alert...
Date: 10/19/2007