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Problem: We have legacy Alert Generating Event Collection rules that legitimately create alerts so that a particular group gets notified of changes to security accounts and groups in Active Directory.& In hind sight they should have been TIMER RESET even...

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Summary: Operator role and higher (operator, advanced operator, and administrator) should be able to put systems into maintenance mode. My testing: For due diligence I tested this in my lab environment as well for the Administrator role, Operator Role an...

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The following are a set of some of the FAQ’s I’ve been asked recently about how licenses are handled in System Center 2012. & Question: In OpsMgr how can I tell if I am running the evaluation version or a licensed version? Answer: Open the OpsMgr console...

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This is one of the most common questions I have received over the years supporting Operations Manager and my general approach has been to include an Operations Manager (OpsMgr) administrator in all subscriptions and use unique channels per subscription w...

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Lemme know, it would make a great item to reference from the agents chapter of the Unleashed book.

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Has anyone found syntax to identify primary and failover management servers in OpsMgr 2012? I have put this together for the primary but I'm not finding the failover syntax: Get-SCOMAgent | where { $_.ComputerName -eq "<ComputerName>"} | Format-...

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Operations Manager 2007: The default location in OpsMgr 2007 for Management Servers is: \Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Health Service State The default location in OpsMgr 2007 for Agents is: \Program Files\System Center Operations M...

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Issue: Somehow in my lab environment I ended up with an agent which was both Agent Monitored and Agentless monitored. This was causing issues with my management server (causing it to go grey) and whenever I flushed the health state and restarted services...

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If you have an environment where you have upgraded to CU5 but you have manually installed agents the process to upgrade to CU5 is intensive. If your manually installed agents are NOT as a result of network communication restrictions, this approach is one...

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“Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 offers significant new functionality, including enhanced network monitoring and application performance monitoring, as well as architectural changes to remove the root management server and to add manageme...

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The following are a set of some of the FAQ’s I’ve been asked recently about how licenses are handled in System Center 2012. Question: In OpsMgr how can I tell if I am running the evaluation version or a licensed version? Answer: Open the OpsMgr console o...

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Inside Podcast Network did a two hour special live from MMS 2012 on Thursday which I was glad to be able to be a part of. This podcast is available here! People involved in the podcast: (in order that they joined the discussion) Dan Kregor Pete Zerger Ca...

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Brian Wren (Whom I will continue to dub “the undisputed master of Management Pack authoring training at Microsoft”) & Baelson Duque (presenter at System Center Universe) presented on the new tools which have been added around management pack (MP) authori...

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Pete Zerger (Mr. SystemCenterCentral) and Alex Fedotyev (Contributor on the upcoming System Center Operations Manager 2012 Unleashed book and alpha-geek on AVIcode) presented on how to take .NET functionality in OpsMgr to the next level. Key Notes: The ....

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Brian Wren (Whom I will dub “the undisputed master of Management Pack authoring training at Microsoft”) presented an interesting session today on the types of interaction we can do between System Center Operations Manager and Orchestrator. The following...

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The second keynote of MMS 2012 focused on users and their connected devices. Specific points from the keynote include the following items: Announcements: MMS 2013: New Orleans in June Brad Anderson said Microsoft will be providing “Deep integration with...

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Paul Mestemaker presented a solid session today on System Center Advisor at MMS. The following is my summary from the session: System Center Advisor: Microsoft support sees common underlying root causes. Advisor is designed to identify these root causes...