For all of you who have been looking for virtualization/hyper-v stencil, I've posted a new stencil I made. If you have suggestions for new icons, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

by Olof Helge, this script can monitor files in a target directory and raise an alert if any file in the directory is older than a user-defined threshold. Designed to be used in OpsMgr or Essentials in a two-state monitor. See original SCC forum discussion HERE.

by Aaron Czechowski, this is a Script to Change A Remote ConfigMgr Clients Cache Size using PowerShell

This script is a helper function to enable setting email addresses on notification devices in Operations Manager 2007. Can be used to update the email address of the currently on call administrator. Note you will need the out-log function from here.

A powershell script that can help you reduce "monitoring noise" created by the "manual reset" monitors.

This sample powershell script locates failed monitors that have no workflow for "success" state and resets the monitor after a predefined delay.

This document contains a conveniently formatted source of command line syntax for Windows Server 2008 Core, and includes both RTM and R2 commands. It started out as a convenient source for my own reference, but after sharing with a few colleagues, they suggested I share.In any event, it makes for a handy offline reference if you've not memorized all the configuration commands for server core.

We see from time to time posts on Security Events that are collected in the Security Logs

Seven Winds has seen once too often that support teams miss heartbeat failures. We created a tool to assist the monitoring team to easily catch these events and create an audio and visual alert to grab their attention.

This Powershell script will Restore the latest recovery point for all Shares/Volumes within specified protection group to a network folder.

by Kris Bash, automated solution including a PowerShell script that puts nodes (and clusters, if applicable) in maintenance mode when used as part a

by, Kris Bash, A vbs script (as a .txt file) for use in a SCOM unit monitor to locally check the status of a listening TCP port.

This is a PowerPoint presentation on “AD Integration for Large Environments in System Center OpsMgr 2007”, presented by Pete Zerger at the System Center Solutions Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Here's another great community solution for automated maintenance mode. In this case, J. Greg extended Derek Harkins 'Maintenance Mode without OpsMgr Admin Rights" solution to automate maintenance mode during monthly patch management.

This is a tool we originally released on systemcenterforum.org designed to run on the Essentials server or SCOM RMS to do one thing - export all management packs. Since the MP2XMLDumper.exe written by Clive errors out on the SCE 2010 platform, this is the best way to export MPs for deeper investigation today.

It allows you to start Maintenance Mode from an monitored server using just a vbscript. Using this requires absolutely no permissions in Operations Manager. The MaintMode.vbs writes an event to the event log that indicates the length of time Maintenance Mode should remain on. This is picked up by the management pack and processed on the RMS to turn on Maintenance Mode for that server. The on time can be specified in days, hours or minutes.

Connect to the SCCM server selecr your collection, and paste te list of machine names to the application. Failures and succesfull attempt are logged. Cheers

by Bob Messer and David Scheltens, this script, designed for use in an OpsMgr two-state monitor, will alert on databases not based up within a user-defined threshold.

by Andreas "Tenchuu" Wackenhut, when run from OpsMgr Command Shell, this script returns top rule and monitor generated alerts.

This script helps to convert your physical client/server into a Virtual Server. All settings, of the client configuration, are into the script.