BWren's Management Space
Operations Manager management packs and other automation technologies
Updated PowerShell Post
I did a post bacin February 2008 on running a PowerShell script from a management pack. This...
Date: 02/01/2010
New Blog
Now that I’ve changed positions to own knowledge for management pack authoring, a blog more...
Date: 01/29/2010
Management Pack Authoring Guide v2
After 13 years of consulting, I joined the UA team in Redmond last August as a technical writer...
Date: 01/11/2010
MP Author Resource Kit
I realize I haven’t posted anything in awhile – mainly due to my recent change of job within...
Date: 10/21/2009
Sample Application for SP1
Attached to this post is a version of my sample application for Operations Manager SP1. This has the...
Date: 06/05/2009
PowerShell Scripts in a Management Pack Part 2
In a previous blog post, I explained how to run PowerShell scripts from a management pack. I...
Date: 06/05/2009
Sample Application Dependencies
I’ve had a couple of people tell me that the sample application I used for my MMS presentations...
Date: 05/20/2009
R2 Authoring Console
I’ve been getting this question quite a bit, so I thought I’d give a quick answer to it. The...
Date: 05/07/2009
MMS 2009
A bit wiped out after delivering four consecutive sessions on management pack authoring. I'm...
Date: 04/28/2009
SNMP Queries
I recently help someone out getting a monitor working that uses the System.SnmpQueryProvider module...
Date: 01/21/2009
Programmatically Creating Groups
Well, it looks from my last post that I took about a eight month hiatus from the blog. ...
Date: 11/18/2008
One more MMS Follow Up
As I ran out of time in the MMS session, I quickly showed a script that listed all performance...
Date: 05/07/2008
Monitoring Object Properties
There has been some question about how to get properties for monitoring objects with Command Shell....
Date: 05/03/2008
Setting Maintenance Mode from an Agent
My apologies that I forgot to talk about this in my MMS session earlier today. I did mention it to a...
Date: 05/01/2008
MMS Command Shell Presentation
As promised, here are all the samples that I am showing in my MMS session on Command Shell. There...
Date: 03/11/2008
Update to the Maintenance Mode Sample MP
Andrzej Lipka, a fellow consultant in Poland, took my maintenance mode sample MP and added some...
Date: 03/10/2008
Using Wildcards with the Windows Service Template
The Windows Service template in the Operations Console lets you discover and monitor a Windows...
Date: 03/08/2008
Great Minds Think Alike
I just got done with my previous post on setting maintenance mode for a group of objects, and I...
Date: 03/04/2008
Scheduling Groups of Objects for Maintenance Mode
I was given a challenge recently to come up with a solution for an organization that wanted to...
Date: 02/28/2008
Command Shell Presentation at MMS 2008
I will be doing a presentation at the upcoming MMS 2008 titled Administrative Scenarios using the...
Date: 02/25/2008
Management Pack Authoring Guide (Told you)
Just a few days ago, I mentioned that the new Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Authoring...
Date: 02/24/2008
Running PowerShell Scripts from a Management Pack - Part 1
Considering all my work with OpsMgr management packs and my infatuation with PowerShell, it's...
Date: 02/20/2008
Where did I get the documentation?
I've been asked a few times where I got all the information behind the different management pack...
Date: 02/17/2008
Dynamically populating component groups in Operations Manager 2007 Distributed Applications
This is one I've been asked about several times and am finally getting around to blogging the...
Date: 01/26/2008
Manually Resetting a Monitor
You may have noticed that all monitors in OpsMgr 2007 have an option called Reset Health. The...
Date: 08/22/2007
Exporting Management Packs
Obviously, /a great way to learn how to author a management pack is to look at existing ones. The...
Date: 08/22/2007
Targeting Rules and Monitors
The concept of what target to use for a particular rule or monitor in OpsMgr 2007 seems to be one...
Date: 08/22/2007
WMI Events in OpsMgr 2007
I've already explained how to work with WMI events in MOM 2005 in an article in TechNet Magazine....
Date: 08/22/2007