Monthly System Center Operations Manager Technology Update for January 2018

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Lynne Taggart here, and I hope everyone stayed safe over the holidays. First post of the year is the SCOM/OMS technology update, I am looking to add more of the system center, Azure and OMS into this technology update, it is time consuming but hopefully there is value for everyone getting it. 

If there is something that you like for me to add, see, recommendations, suggestions etc. send a reply to this post and I will check it out as soon as possible. If it is worthy, it will be in the upcoming updates.

You can access my blog at https://aka.ms/allthat

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Current Rollups:

SCOM 2016 UR04 KB402494 UR03 KB4016126 UR02 KB3209591 UR01 KB3190029

SCOM 2012 R2 UR14 KB4024942 UR13 KB4016125 UR12 KB3209587 UR11 KB3183990 UR10 KB (Skipped) UR09 KB3129774 UR08 KB3096382

SCOM 2012 SP1 UR10 KB3071088 UR07 KB3064919 UR06 KB3051169 UR05 KB3023138 UR04 KB2992020 UR03 KB2965445 UR02 KB2929891 UR01 KB2904678

Lifecycles:

Products Released	Lifecycle Start Date	Mainstream Support End Date	Extended Support End Date	Notes
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2	8/20/2009	7/8/2014	7/9/2019
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1	2/22/2008	7/8/2014	7/9/2019	Support ends 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first. For more information, please see the service pack policy.
System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager	1/16/2014	7/11/2017	7/12/2022
System Center 2016 Operations Manager	10/28/2016	1/11/2022	1/11/2027

Newest KB Articles:

None

Management Packs:

• HPC Pack 2016 Update 1

• Microsoft System Center Management Pack for System Center Service Manager

• System Center Visual Studio Authoring Extensions

Microsoft Blog Articles:

• Azure

• Update on retirement of Azure AD classic portal experience and migration of conditional access policies
• Automation runbooks available in action groups to take actions from alerts

Server & Management

• WNV Deep Dive Part 1 – Introduction to Containers and Windows Network Virtualization
• WNV Deep Dive Part 2 – How WNV works
• WNV Deep Dive Part 3 – Capturing and Reading Virtualized Network Traffic
• WNV Deep Dive Part 4 – Looking at LBFO and Hyper-V traffic
• WNV Deep Dive Part 5 – Container Networking: The default NAT network
• WNV Deep Dive Part 6 – Container Networking: Transparent and L2bridge Networks

Lynne Taggart

• FIXED: Get-SCOMManagementPacks.ps1
• Monthly System Center Operations Manager Technology Update for December 2017 

Kevin Justin

• OMS/Advisor Event ID 55002
• Logical Disks Dynamic Group
• SCOM 1711 – Technical Preview for upcoming 1801 

SCOM Engineering Team

• PowerShell script to automatically close old alerts in SCOM
• system Center Visual Studio Authoring Extension(VSAE) support for Visual Studio 2017

Daniel Mueller

• Methode GetFailoverManagementServers() is very slow? Here’s a faster method to collect failover configuration from scom agents

Tyson Paul

• Export SCOM Rule and Monitor Knowledge Articles with PowerShell

Nathan Gau

• Reliable Time Monitor False Positives for AD Domain Member Monitoring

Joey Aiello

• Using the OpenSSH Beta in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709

Katie Kiem

• DSC Resource Kit Release December 2017 

Hey, Scripting Guy!

• PowerShell support for certificate credentials
• Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part I)
• Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part II)
• Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part III)
• Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part IV)
• Script Wars: The Farce Awakens (part V)

pzerger

How to enable hibernation on a Guarded Host running Windows 10
Fall Creators Update

Udish

• SCOM Cross Domain ACS Collector and Forwarder Configuration

Kevin Holman

• VSAE now supports Visual Studio 2017

Bruno Gabrielli

• Making data ingestion through HTTP Data Collector API automatic using Operations Manager

Azure Blog

• New Alerts (preview) in Azure Monitor
• Azure Monitor: Send monitoring data to an event hub

Community Blog Articles

• Bob Cornelissen

• Finding the meaning of SCOM Web check error codes

Marnix Wolf

• Mobile First Cloud First Strategy series

• Mobile First–Cloud First’ Strategy – How About System Center – 07 – SCOM
• Mobile First–Cloud First’ Strategy – How About System Center – 06 – SCVMM
• Mobile First–Cloud First’ Strategy – How About System Center – 05 – SCSM
• Mobile First–Cloud First’ Strategy – How About System Center – 04 – SCDPM
• Mobile First–Cloud First’ Strategy – How About System Center – 03 – SCOrch 
• Mobile First–Cloud First’ Strategy – How About System Center – 02 – SCCM
• Mobile First–Cloud First’ Strategy – How About System Center – 01 – Kickoff

Free Ebook: Enterprise Cloud Strategy, 2nd Edition

Free Ebook: Azure Strategy & Implementation Guide - For Azure users

Retirement Date Classic Azure Portal–Set & Confirmed

Azure Archive Storage General Available 

Stanislav Zhelyazkov

• https://cloudadministrator.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/get-scommanagementpacks-4-4/ 

Stefan Roth

• OMS – Monitor Windows Services / Processes
• PowerShell – Convert Special Character String Into Numbers 

Thomas Maurer

• Install and Configure OpenSSH Server on Windows 10 and Windows Server 1709
• Tar and Curl on Windows 10 

adatum

• Azure Cloud Shell

Silect

• None

Squared Up

• The best SCOM resources of 2017 - plus a sneak peek at our plans for 2018

MP Authoring

None

TechNet Gallery

• Operations Manager

• Released

• PowerShell script to get UR version of all SCOM 2012 R2 Component
• Updated MP for AD Reliable Time Server Monitor
• SystemCenterWiki Management Pack
• Backup unsealed management pack with scheduler

Updated

• SCOM 2016 System Center Internal Discovery MP Fix
• Export SCOM Knowledge Articles
• Updated MP for AD Reliable Time Server Monitor
• Cireson Portal & Cache Builder Management Pack for SCOM 2012 R2 – 2016
• Office 365 Supplemental Management Pack V1
• Backup unsealed management pack with scheduler
• SCOM Management Properties and Tasks Pack for Agents and Server Roles
• Converse of ICMP Ping
• Server Performance Solution for Microsoft OMS

Operations Manager Dashboards

• Released

• Monitor sensitive user and group activities within a domain

Updated

Knowledge Opportunities

• Microsoft Azure Government

• How to Jumpstart Your Move to the Cloud - Gov Edition - Wed, January 31, 2018 - 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Training (Jan. 9-10)
• Global Azure BootCamp 2018 - Reston, VA - Sat, April 21, 2018 - 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM EDT

If there is content you like added to the following month, please leave a reply to this post.