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.

This script automatize adding of new VMM host into VMM Server.

This is the MP to the step-by-step guide I released over the last two weeks.

By Jeff Graves (OrcsWeb), This powershell script will query the DPM 2007 database for alerts and addresses the four most common. Replica disk and Recovery Point Volume threshold exceeded, Replica is inconsistent, and Recovery Point creation failed.

I was disappointed when I could not find a downloadable copy of the DPM 2007 error catalog as we had available with DPM 2006, so I created one for myself. It occurred to me that other users may like one for reference as well. I transferred errors to to Excel, cleaned up the formatting and added the standard search filter...

David Wallis of the U.K (www.wallis2000.co.uk) has written an application, called the SCOM Email Service, that allows Operations Manager 2007 administrators to acknowledge and resolve alerts via email.

This is the sample Process Monitoring script referenced in the "HOW-TO Create a 2-State Script Monitor" tutorial for OpsMgr and Essentials 2007. Use as a learning tool only, not for production environments.