Operations Manager Cross-Group Blog
Tips and tricks from the Microsoft Operations Manager Cross-Group Team Members
What is my App Pool Actually Doing?
Much ink (both physical and virtual) has been spent on configuring application pools in IIS. I'm not...
Date: 11/09/2018
Orphaned Service Broker Queues in the SCOM Database
We recently ran into an issue where our Operations Manager database was full. But the on-call...
Date: 04/14/2018
Replacement Azure Management Certificate Monitoring
We replaced one of the monitors for Azure Management Certificates, and I had a few requests to share...
Date: 01/24/2018
NetBIOS Domain Name Incorrect in SCOM 2016
I noticed this when we upgraded to SCOM 2016. After we applied UR3 the issue still persisted. The...
Date: 08/03/2017
Doing "Math" on Performance Counters in SCOM
If you look at the dashboard of a car, most of the instruments have obvious good and bad values...
Date: 10/22/2015
Extra Monitor Type for TCP and HTTP(S) Synthetic Transactions
NOTE: I authored this MP in the SCOM 2007 R2 Authoring Console. This MP should work in both SCOM...
Date: 08/28/2015
SCOM does not properly groom all MT*_Log tables
UPDATE: This issue has been resolved in SCOM 2012 R2 UR7. I was asked to look at a very large...
Date: 04/08/2015
Updating SQL Server Analysis Services Via PowerShell
If you use the GUI install both the SQL Database Engine and SQL Analysis Services in the same server...
Date: 12/18/2014
Azure Storage Analytics Metrics Management Pack
This is a draft of a SCOM management pack I made for Azure Storage Analytics Metrics. It's not...
Date: 08/15/2014
Read the Azure Storage Analytics Metrics Table with PowerShell
Another script I recently needed to read Azure Storage Analytics Metrics. Here is the table schema...
Date: 08/08/2014
Query Azure Storage with PowerShell but without the SDK or Cmdlets
I had a need to query Azure Storage via PowerShell, but I was not guaranteed that the machines...
Date: 08/08/2014
Discovery Does Not Work in ADFS 2012 R2 MP
UPDATE Version 7.1.10100.1 of the management pack, published on June 16, 2014 has addressed the...
Date: 05/07/2014
Use PowerShell to Create and Update Performance Counters
SCOM has a wonderful ability to take data from custom data sources, such as scripts, and treat them...
Date: 04/23/2014
PrincipalName and NetworkName
One of the most commonly used classes in SCOM is Microsoft.Windows.Computer from the...
Date: 03/05/2014
Use The All Management Servers Resource Pool To Run Scheduled Tasks
A major improvement from SCOM 2007 to SCOM 2012 was the federation of the Root Management Server...
Date: 11/15/2013
Health Service Restarts on Service Manager Servers With SCOM Agents
With the release of System Center Service Manager (SCSM) 2012 SP1 a SCOM agent was added to the SCSM...
Date: 10/17/2013
Dealing with XML Events
With Windows Vista/2008 the "Crimson" event API's were added. The idea was to allow events to be...
Date: 07/02/2013
Monitoring Object Properties
I really hate to reinvent the wheel. I have had the need to create monitors for values that are...
Date: 06/14/2013
The new DNS Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager
The most recent release of the DNS management pack for SCOM is a total re-write of the management...
Date: 03/27/2013
IIS Service Alerts From Servers Where IIS is not Installed
NOTE: I believe the IIS 6 Management Pack exhibits similar behaviors. In the interest of simplicity...
Date: 03/26/2013
Selectively Setting Default Action Accounts in SCOM
Disclaimer: I have only tested this in SCOM 2012, but it should be possible to work in SCOM 2007 R2...
Date: 02/22/2013
Monitoring Certificates In SCOM
In almost every SCOM environment I have been involved with the need to monitor certificates has come...
Date: 01/30/2013
Repeated Event Monitors with a Missing Event Reset
One of the most common requests I get is to write a monitor that raises if a given event happens...
Date: 01/21/2013
How to store SYSLOG in the SCOM Data Warehouse
If you have ever tried to create a Syslog collection rule in the SCOM Authoring Console, this is the...
Date: 01/07/2013