Recently I was trying to install the Powershell ISE SMA Addon on our server that will serve as our development server for our SMA Runbooks. The problem is that the server doesn’t have any internet access. Normally you could do Install-module -name SMAAuthoringtoolkit and Powershell would go and get it for you, however this doesn’t …
This month marks the ten year anniversary of when I started my first and only help desk job at The Menninger Clinic. Ten years ago straight out of school, where I had worked in the university’s IT department, but we did not use any Microsoft products. Ten years ago, starting my first job, I didn’t …
Edit 8/27/2018: added Github link: Github repo here https://github.com/scautomation/Document-SCOM-Distributed-Aps For every consulting project I do one of the requirements is documentation. I like to provide more documentation than required, which is why I give my SCOM clients a general How To document if they are new to SCOM. I also provide documentation on the SCOM …
So I had a problem in my lab, I had extended the storage pool disk I use for Hyper-V VMs but forgot to extend it in Windows. It filled up and bad things happened. I extended it in Windows and restarted my VMs, but the SQL Service on my Windows Azure Pack server did not …
Updated May 3rd. Microsoft has released a fix for the report server upgrade issue. My post about it here. Updated Feb 15th for one of the but fixes mentioned below Updated March 15th for the High DPI Scaling issue Microsoft has released System Center 1801. Wait, that looks like a Configuration Manager build number. You …
Working with SCOM in the console and working with the SCOM Powershell module are two vastly different things. Powershell is much quicker, especially for getting lots of data and related objects at once. However, if you haven’t worked very much with the Operations Manager Powershell Module very much, these might be a few quirks or …
Creating SCOM Groups can be tedious. Creating dozens of SCOM groups each with multiple members can be a long task indeed. I searched and searched and thought surely someone somewhere has come up with some Powershell to do this task. I could not find anything. Enter Tao Yang and his OpsMgrSDK Powershell Module. If you …