Category: SCOM

Have you ever setup a lab machine running Windows Server and realized you are missing a bunch of drivers?  This can greatly affect disk I/O and overall performance of the server. …

Imagine a world where server and application admins can install and maintain their SCOM agents themselves.  Imagine if they could quickly and easily create their own groups and then create…

Updates: Changed the way One Click MM parameters work to prevent SQL Injection attacks If no computers, Groups, or classes are selected and error will be thrown, instead of scheduling…

First let me say this isn’t supported. But then again Windows Server 2003 is no longer supported anyways. Even if you have a Custom Support agreement, that just gives you…

Custom with a large environment (7000+) agents was having issues with the SQL Dashboards not populating.  We checked the event log and came across this error.   Log Name: Operations…

The SCOM 2016 Maintenance Mode Scheduler application makes enabling and scheduling maintenance mode simple for all users. Your IT staff will no longer have a reason why a server wasn’t…

There is a bug in SCOM 2016 where if you choose a different Operations Manager Database Name during install, schedule maintenance mode won’t work! The Jobs will run but nothing…

SCOM 2016 UR2 has been released to the Update Catalog Link: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=3209591 KB article https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3209591/update-rollup-2-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager

When writing my SCOM Agent Update MP  I needed a way to get the SCOM Agent version from the file system.  There is one file that gets updated in every…

A customer was building a SCCM package to update SCOM Agents.  They needed the command lines to install and uninstall UR11. Patch Install command msiexec.exe /p “C:\temp\KB3183990-AMD64-Agent.msp” /qn Patch Uninstall Command…