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• What is OMS and a Brief History of It

  While discussing Azure/OMS topics in the community I often see incorrect usage of OMS (Operations Management Suite). That is understandable of course as Microsoft hasn’t done good job at clearing out all the terms but I still think we should be using the correct term when posting questions or discussing OMS in forums and other […]

  Filed Under: ACS, Azure, Blog, Cloud, Microsoft OMS

  

  Posted By Stanislav Zhelyazkov
  On June 21st, 2018

• OMS Portal Moving to Azure

  For quite some time it was clear that the OMS Portal will move completely to Azure and that is good news. We have seen services like Update Management, Azure Security Center (Security & Audit solution is part of it) releasing new functionalities only in Azure Portal. In fact some services that have been part of […]

  Filed Under: Azure, Blog, Cloud, Microsoft OMS

  

  Posted By Stanislav Zhelyazkov
  On June 19th, 2018

• Patching Lync & Skype for Business

  When patching Lync & Skype for Business, beekeeper has a validation pack that contains PowerShell scripts to remove a system from service. Once its out of service, patching can take place. These pre-patching PowerShell validation tasks include: Verifying a server can be removed from service using the Get-CSPoolUpdateReadiness cmdlet Testing whether there are any active […]

  Filed Under: Config Manager, Powershell

  

  Posted By John Hann
  On June 18th, 2018

• SCCM PowerShell One-Liners

  List outstanding software updates targeted at a remote client:

  Get-WmiObject -ComputerName “PC123” -query "SELECT * FROM CCM_SoftwareUpdate" -namespace "ROOT\ccm\ClientSDK" |Select -Property PSComputerName, Name, ArticleID

  1	Get-WmiObject -ComputerName “PC123” -query "SELECT * FROM CCM_SoftwareUpdate" -namespace "ROOT\ccm\ClientSDK" |Select -Property PSComputerName, Name, ArticleID

  List outstanding applications targeted at a remote client:

  Get-WmiObject -ComputerName “PC123” -query "SELECT * FROM CCM_Application" -namespace "ROOT\ccm\ClientSDK" |Where-Object {$_.InstallState -eq "NotInstalled"}|Select -Property PSComputerName, FullName, InstallState

  1	Get-WmiObject -ComputerName “PC123” -query "SELECT * FROM CCM_Application" -namespace "ROOT\ccm\ClientSDK" |Where-Object {$_.InstallState -eq "NotInstalled"}|Select -Property PSComputerName, FullName, InstallState

  Invoke Application Deployment Evaluation to a remote client:

  Invoke-WMIMethod -ComputerName “PC123” -Namespace root\ccm -Class SMS_CLIENT -Name TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000121}"

  1	Invoke-WMIMethod -ComputerName “PC123” -Namespace root\ccm -Class SMS_CLIENT -Name TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000121}"

  [Invoke Machine Policy Retrieval and Evaluation to a remote client:

  Invoke-WMIMethod -ComputerName “PC123” -Namespace root\ccm -Class SMS_CLIENT -Name TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000021}"

  1	Invoke-WMIMethod -ComputerName “PC123” -Namespace root\ccm -Class SMS_CLIENT -Name TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000021}"

  Invoke Software Update Deployment Evaluation to a remote client:

  Invoke-WMIMethod -ComputerName “PC123” -Namespace root\ccm -Class SMS_CLIENT -Name TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000108}"

  1	Invoke-WMIMethod -ComputerName “PC123” -Namespace root\ccm -Class SMS_CLIENT -Name TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000108}"

  Invoke Software Update Scan:

  Invoke-WMIMethod -ComputerName “PC123” -Namespace root\ccm -Class SMS_CLIENT -Name TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000113}"

  1	Invoke-WMIMethod -ComputerName “PC123” -Namespace root\ccm -Class SMS_CLIENT -Name TriggerSchedule "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000113}"

  Invoke […]

  Filed Under: Config Manager, Powershell

  

  Posted By John Hann
  On June 18th, 2018

• Aggregate on More Than One Column for Azure Log Search Alerts

  Log Analytics alerts aka Azure Log Search Alerts allows you to create a single alert and trigger alert instances per a column. This is possible by creating metric measurement alert. Unfortunately these types of alerts also have a limitation which might be blocking in certain situation. The classical example for that limitation is to create […]

  Filed Under: Azure, Cloud, Microsoft OMS

  

  Posted By Stanislav Zhelyazkov
  On June 8th, 2018