The Manageability Guys
The PFE UK Manageability team
Don’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...
Date: 02/19/2018
Setting System Center Orchestrator Runbook Operator Privileges
Hi, Common question I keep getting asked by my customers is: How do I set Orchestrator Operator...
Date: 11/23/2016
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...
Date: 06/14/2016
Troubleshooting PXE boot issues in Configuration Manager 2012
A very short one from me today, we recently published an interactive tutorial in troubleshooting...
Date: 04/27/2016
What's New With ConfigMgr's Client Notification Feature
With the release of Configuration Manager this month - ConfigMgr 1602, was the introduction of some...
Date: 03/29/2016
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...
Date: 11/19/2015
Monitoring Database Replication Efficiency in Configuration Manager 2012
In this blog post I want to look at DRS replication within System Center Configuration Manager and...
Date: 11/12/2015
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...
Date: 09/21/2015
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...
Date: 09/18/2015
SCOM Alerts from Windows Events
Having spent some time on the Service Model, I’ll start to look at some monitoring to help us...
Date: 09/15/2015
Groups based upon OU Membership
The Computer Group that I created as part of the initial authoring series grouped together computer...
Date: 09/04/2015
Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 7 - Create State Views
Right Click Dashboards and choose Add, New Item Add Empty Management Pack Fragment and choose a name...
Date: 08/25/2015
Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 8 - Create a Distributed Application (class, relationship, discovery and diagram view)
We can also build a Distributed Application for our Application. This fragment will: Create the...
Date: 08/25/2015
Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 6 - Create a Health Service Watcher Group (class and discovery)
Lets create our Health Service Watcher group - this will be a group of Health Service Watcher...
Date: 08/25/2015
Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 5 - Create a Computer Group (class and discovery)
Lets create our computer group - this will be a group of computer objects that are running our...
Date: 08/25/2015
Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 4 - Create an Instance Group (class and discovery)
Three key groups I will create are: Group of “instances” of the Application. This is a...
Date: 08/25/2015
Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 3 - Create a class based on Windows Local Application along with a registry discovery
For detailed training, please see the Brian Wren MVA series. There are a number of relevant chapters...
Date: 08/24/2015
Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 2 - Create Key to seal Management Packs
There is a great article on sealed and unsealed management packs here so I'm not going to repeat...
Date: 08/24/2015
Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 1 - Download pre-requisites
Lets start off by making sure we have Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Authoring extensions...
Date: 08/24/2015
Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Overview
As promised, here is a run through of authoring Management Packs using Visual Studio and the...
Date: 08/24/2015
Dynamic SQL Computer Group with Health Service Watcher Objects
The SQL 2014 Management Packs have fundamentally changed the way that SQL Server classes are scoped....
Date: 08/14/2015
Distributed Applications in a Snippet
A common request from customers is to be able to monitor an application and to display information...
Date: 08/14/2015
Management Pack: Azure Powershell Monitoring leveraging Azure AD Authentication
Just wanted to let you know about a sample System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Management Pack...
Date: 08/05/2015
State Tiles Widget + PowerShell Widget
Dashboard options for Windows Operating System, Logical Disks and SQL DB Engine I closely follow the...
Date: 08/04/2015
Powershell: Retrieve Group Membership for a given Computer in Operations Manager (2012/ 2012 R2)
In System Center Operations Manager (2012/ 2012 R2) you may find it difficult to retrieve all the...
Date: 07/28/2015
Operations Manager 2012 - Create Override Packs via PowerShell
An example PowerShell script to automate the creation of override packs within Operations Manager...
Date: 07/17/2015
Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator Tool
Hi! For those of you who are used to working with Microsoft Azure, the Azure Pricing calculator...
Date: 04/02/2015
Secondary Sites and SQL Server Express 2012
Lately, I’ve been helping my customer plan for a ConfigMgr 2012 upgrade from SP1 to R2. After...
Date: 03/11/2015
Service Manager - CMDB Computer Maker
An example PowerShell script to automate the creation of items within the Service Manager CMDB can...
Date: 02/17/2015
How To Auto Uninstall User Device Affinity Applications in Configuration Manager 2012
Before Christmas, a colleague came to me with a customer scenario where they were leveraging User...
Date: 01/05/2015
Validating Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Failover Clustering 2012 R2 hotfixes and updates with PowerShell
Hey there, If you were aware of my most excellent friend Cristian Edwards’ Hyper-V and...
Date: 05/31/2014
Possible Way of: Providing Operators access to the Monitor’s properties in the SCOM Console
You may be one of those asking: Why an Operator can't see the monitor properties so that they...
Date: 05/15/2014
CM TechDay Additional Content
Hi All, This post is meant as a reference to additional content for those that attended our TechDay...
Date: 02/25/2014
Service Manager 2012 - Creating Workflow Notifications in Change Requests
The Change Request process in Service Manager can involve a lot of repetitive data entry. This is...
Date: 02/24/2014
Managing Updates and Revisions in your System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager environment
Managing Updates and Revisions in your Virtual Machine Manager Environment I’ve recently spent...
Date: 02/16/2014
#8 - Operations Manager Agent deployment and basic monitoring testing over the Windows Azure P2S VPN connection
This post is (last) Part #8 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...
Date: 12/18/2013
#7 - Configure Name resolution over P2S VPN Connection
This post is Part #7 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...
Date: 12/18/2013
#6 - Configure and connect the P2S VPN Client to the Windows Azure P2S VPN.
This post is Part #6 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...
Date: 12/10/2013
#5 - Create and Export the P2S VPN Client Certificate
This post is Part #5 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...
Date: 12/10/2013
SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 Operations Manager - Anti-Virus Exclusions
The Anti-Virus exclusions should be part of common day to day administrative tasks of Anti-Virus...
Date: 11/26/2013
#4 - Create Virtual Machine in the P2S VPN Network Availability Group
This post is Part #4 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...
Date: 11/18/2013
#3 - Create P2S VPN Gateway
This post is Part #3 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...
Date: 11/18/2013
#2 - Create, Export and Upload P2S VPN Root Certificate
This post is Part #2 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...
Date: 11/08/2013
#1 - Create and Configure: Windows Azure Virtual Network, Affinity Group and Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN
This post is Part #1 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...
Date: 11/06/2013
Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012 Operations Manager
Hi All, This Blog series aims to provide you with an early overview of the required steps to: Setup...
Date: 11/05/2013
System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Daily Report Management Pack
Attached to this blog is an example Management Pack based on my "How to create daily reports with...
Date: 10/21/2013
Visual Studio Authoring Extensions for Visual Studio 2012/2013 available now!
For those following our Blog and working with System Center Operations Manager 2012 Operations...
Date: 10/20/2013
PFE UK is Hiring!!
Premier Field Engineering UK is hiring and we currently have vacancies for System Center...
Date: 10/08/2013
Operations Manager 2012 - Can't select performance counters using objects by performance widget in my workspace?
I have seen the following issue recently in OM 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 2 in several different...
Date: 10/02/2013
ConfigMgr 2012: Tracking Application Model installations on clients
I frequently get customers asking me how to track and troubleshoot Application model based installs...
Date: 10/01/2013