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I retired a management server – now SCOM reporting doesn’t work?
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 01/23/2017
MP Update – Totally new Active Directory MP for Windows Server 2012 and 2016
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/22/2016
Where are the Server 2016 Management Packs?
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/19/2016
Getting Monitor State Change Events via PowerShell
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/17/2016
Extending UNIX/Linux Computer class from a local file
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/09/2016
How to collect events – but not ALL the events?
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/08/2016
Alerting on Events – waiting for a specific amount of time to pass
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/04/2016
Extending Windows Computer class from a SQL CMDB in SCOM
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/04/2016
Extending Windows Computer class from a CSV file in SCOM
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/04/2016
Extending Windows Computer class from Registry Keys in SCOM
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/04/2016
How to move views in My Workspace into a Management Pack
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 11/22/2016
Understanding SCOM Resource Pools
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 11/21/2016
Installing the Exchange 2010 Correlation Engine on a Non-Management Server and without a console
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 11/18/2016
SCOM SQL queries
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 11/11/2016
Monitoring UNIX/Linux with OpsMgr 2016
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 11/11/2016
Deploying SCOM 2016 Agents to Domain controllers – some assembly required
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 11/04/2016
Enabling Scheduled Maintenance in SCOM 2016 UR1
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 10/22/2016
OpsMgr 2016 – QuickStart Deployment Guide
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 10/22/2016
UR11 for SCOM 2012 R2 – Step by Step
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3183990 Download catalog site:...
Author: Kevin Holman Date: 09/06/2016
SQL MP Run As Accounts – NO LONGER REQUIRED
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 08/25/2016
How to add accounts from another domain into a SCOM User Role
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 07/19/2016
Part 8: Use VSAE fragments to create a Windows Performance Monitor with Consecutive Samples
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/04/2016
Part 7: Use VSAE fragments to add custom Groups to your MP
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/04/2016
Part 6: Use VSAE fragments to add Alert, State, and Performance views to your MP
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/04/2016
Part 5: Use VSAE fragments to create a performance collection rule
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/04/2016
Part 4: Use VSAE fragments to create an alert generating event log rule
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/04/2016
Part 3: Use VSAE fragments to monitor a service
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/04/2016
Part 2: Use VSAE fragments to dynamically discover an application based on the existence of a registry key or value
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/04/2016
Part 1: Use VSAE to create a new Management Pack Project
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/04/2016
Authoring Management Packs – the fast and easy way, using Visual Studio???
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/04/2016
Follow me on twitter
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/03/2016
How to change the SCOM agent heartbeat interval in PowerShell
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/02/2016
Monitoring a file hash using SCOM
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 05/26/2016
You probably have a ton of old event data in your Data Warehouse
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 05/24/2016
UR9 for SCOM 2012 R2 – Step by Step
This is an updated article replacing the original – to include the deployment of the Linux MP’s...
Author: Kevin Holman Date: 05/16/2016
Writing a custom class for your network devices
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 04/20/2016
How SQL database free space monitoring works in the SQL management pack
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 04/03/2016
Update: Automating Run As Account distribution dynamically
Just an FYI – I have updated the automatic run as account distribution script I published, to make...
Author: Kevin Holman Date: 04/03/2016
Writing events with parameters using PowerShell
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 04/02/2016
How to monitor for event logs and use a script to modify the output - a composite datasource
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 04/01/2016
How to remove OMS and Advisor management packs
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 03/26/2016
How to generate an alert and make it look like it came from someone else
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 03/07/2016
Exchange 2013 Addendum MP – for Exchange 2013 and 2016
The Exchange 2013 MP has been released for some time now. The current version at this writing is...
Author: Kevin Holman Date: 03/02/2016
The impact of moving databases in SCOM
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 02/16/2016
Event 18054 errors in the SQL application log – in SCOM 2012 R2 deployments
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 02/10/2016
Removing / Migrating old Management Servers to new ones
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 02/03/2016
Writing a service recovery script – Cluster service example
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 01/24/2016
UR8 for SCOM 2012 R2 – Step by Step
NOTE: I get this question every time we release an update rollup: ALL SCOM Update Rollups are...
Author: Kevin Holman Date: 01/11/2016
How to discover a Windows Computer as a Network Device in SCOM 2012
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/16/2015
Event Log rule to look for multiple reboots – a script WriteAction example
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 10/27/2015