Have you ever wanted to copy a monitor inside of a sealed management pack? For instance copy the Microsoft Logical Disk Space Monitor and make it work the way you…
Category: SCOM Tips
Tips, tricks, and best practices for SCOM
Fix SCOM Maintenance Mode Scheduler schedules after a DST time change
If you are using the SCOM Maintenance Mode Scheduler with SCOM 2016 or above and you had a Daylight Savings Time change. We recommend you running Kevin Holman’s PowerhShell script…
SCOM DataWarehouse Grooming Settings is now Super Easy with new GUI tool
Do you find it a huge pain to run the outdated and buggy command line tool DWDATARP to adjust SCOM DataWarehouse settings? This little GUI based tool makes it super…
Why Azure Monitor Workbooks are awesome and you should be using it now to supplement SCOM
With Azure Monitor Workbooks you can now quickly and easily make intelligent decisions about your infrastructure. One of the things SCOM has never been good at is reporting or dashboards….
Stop collecting all the worthless SCOM events in your environment
Quick Download: https://gist.github.com/timmcfadden/0e2912b6ba1e524898c81f921aefcb02/archive/022c9351b99eb9c247601c4f537e825297f803be.zip Do you want to stop collecting all the worthless SCOM events in your environment? By default SCOM collects thousands of events out of the box with a…
Are you annoyed when working in the SCOM console and the console window disappears to the background?
Working in the SCOM console, when closing a window the console will occasionally disappear. You have to go to the task bar to find it and re-select the window. To reproduce this; First…
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…
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…
Stop the madness of having outdated SCOM Agents in your environment
I have seen many SCOM environments where it takes multiple teams to update a single SCOM Agent to the latest Update Rollup. Often it takes months or even years…
Automatic Alert Resolution in SCOM
One of the more confusing screens in SCOM is the Automatic Alert Resolution settings screen. The text is very vague as to what is does. Kevin Holman recently updated his blog…