Have you ever setup a lab machine running Windows Server and realized you are missing a bunch of drivers? This can greatly affect disk I/O and overall performance of the server. …
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SCOM Self Service Portal
Imagine a world where server and application admins can install and maintain their SCOM agents themselves. Imagine if they could quickly and easily create their own groups and then create…
SCOM Core – Removing all the add-on management packs that make SCOM 2016 Bloated and Slow
Wouldn’t it be cool if SCOM 2016 was super fast and required less resources? SCOM 2016 is full of legacy solutions that make it bloated and slow. You can remove…
SCOM 2012 Maintenance Mode Scheduler Version 8.5
Updates: Changed the way One Click MM parameters work to prevent SQL Injection attacks If no computers, Groups, or classes are selected and error will be thrown, instead of scheduling…
Sick of explaining to end users why they didn’t get a SCOM disk monitor alert?
Are you sick and tired of explaining to end users why they didn’t get a disk space alert? The built in SCOM disk space monitors are way too complicated. There…
Monitoring Windows Server 2003 with SCOM 2016
First let me say this isn’t supported. But then again Windows Server 2003 is no longer supported anyways. Even if you have a Custom Support agreement, that just gives you…
SQL Dashboards not populating with Event 26319
Custom with a large environment (7000+) agents was having issues with the SQL Dashboards not populating. We checked the event log and came across this error. Log Name: Operations…
SCOM 2016 Maintenance Mode Scheduler
The SCOM 2016 Maintenance Mode Scheduler application makes enabling and scheduling maintenance mode simple for all users. Your IT staff will no longer have a reason why a server wasn’t…
SCOM 2016 Scheduled Maintenance Mode won’t run if you picked a different database name during install
There is a bug in SCOM 2016 where if you choose a different Operations Manager Database Name during install, schedule maintenance mode won’t work! The Jobs will run but nothing…
SCOM 2016 UR2 has been released to the Update Catalog
SCOM 2016 UR2 has been released to the Update Catalog Link: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/search.aspx?q=3209591 KB article https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3209591/update-rollup-2-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager