I admit it, I’m lazy – especially when it comes down to dull tasks like creating a bulk of User Roles. Fortunately, this can be 100% scripted.

I ran into a small roadblock yesterday when working with Server App-V I felt was worth sharing. If you attempt to install Server App-V PowerShell cmdlets (for Server App-V agent or sequencer) on a clean Windows 2008 Server, you may get the following gene...

One of my admins asked for a script not only to create a Configuration Manager collection, but a query-based collection. I saw plenty of examples on the Internet, but found they mostly used AD or a list of some sort to create a directly populated (static...

Here’s the full collection of System Center 2012 documentation available on TechNet, which as of this minute includes all but App Controller, Configuration Manager and Data Protection Manager. System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager: http://www.micr...

In the third installment in the Orchestrator Runbook Jumpstart series, we will take a deep dive into advanced runbook authoring concepts, best practices and options for extending native Orchestrator functionality. In the Series The series will consist of...

Today I started going through the two 2007 R2 management packs created over time to “monitor the monitors”. These custom rules/monitors, along with key scripts running out-of-band under Task Scheduler keep OpsMgr running on auto pilot. Given that 2012 is...

We had a great meeting Friday! I would like to thank the speakers, Ken Galvin from Quest, Alec King from Veeam and Baelson Duque from Microsoft for taking time out from their busy schedules to take part in our user group. I would also like to thank your...

I’ve now heard from multiple customers that they want to better control when their Service Manager connectors are running. For whatever reason, Microsoft didn’t really include a UI to control the schedule of most connectors, except for the SCCM and SCOM...

This is a rough overview on my personal experience for this task and due to the nature of the subject it mustn’t be applicable to other environments. You might find a few ideas though that might be helpful. This task is a bit chaotic due to the nature...

When deploying a virtual machine using the Create VM from Template activity in the VMM 2012 Integration Pack, I created a sample runbook I could incorporate the Service Manager 2012 service catalog. It looks like this: Runbook Properties And the properti...