System Center and Azure Blog by Russ Slaten
Enabling or Disabling Workflows in SCOM 2012 with PowerShell
This is a continuation of a Data Center Automation series of posts that I have been working on with...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 06/03/2013
Creating Event Based Alerting Rules in SCOM 2012 with PowerShell
This is a continuation of a Data Center Automation series of posts that I have been working on with...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 06/03/2013
Creating Performance Collection Rules in SCOM 2012 with PowerShell
This is a continuation of a Data Center Automation series of posts that I have been working on with...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 06/02/2013
Management Servers turn gray when they are removed from the AMSRP
Recently I worked on an issue in SCOM 2012 SP1 where management servers that are removed from the...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 05/30/2013
Creating Management Packs in SCOM 2012 with PowerShell
I have recently started working with Anders Bengtsson on some Data Center automation. Our goal is to...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 05/09/2013
URL Monitoring Part IV–Getting More Advanced
This entry is a continuation of the following series: URL Monitoring Part I – The Design URL...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 12/14/2010
Preferred Cluster Node Detection MP
I wrote an MP last year that I thought might be useful for the community. Of course this is just an...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 06/25/2010
Where are my Registered Servers?
I have a customer with multiple OpsMgr management groups and they don't like to type in the...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 06/25/2010
The Challenges with Manual Reset Monitors
Recently some of my peers were discussing issues that their customers are encountering with manual...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 06/25/2010
URL Monitoring Part III – The Monitors
This entry is part of the following series: URL Monitoring Part I – The Design URL Monitoring Part...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 07/07/2009
URL Monitoring Part II – The Classes and Discoveries
This entry is part of the following series: URL Monitoring Part I – The Design URL Monitoring Part...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 07/07/2009
Custom URL Monitoring Part I – The Design
The out of the box Web Application template that exists in OpsMgr 2007 SP1 and R2 is useful but...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 07/07/2009
Monitoring the Monitoring solution
What if OpsMgr is in a state where it is running but not working properly? Maybe your RMS is gray or...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 02/25/2009
What do you do here?
Here at Microsoft I have had the opportunity to work in different roles on several teams all of...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 02/24/2009
Using a property bag to populate an alert description part II
Over a year ago I blogged about the proper syntax required to populate an alert description with...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 02/24/2009
Exporting and importing user roles
I have a customer who has many management groups and wants to synchronize the user roles between...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 11/03/2008
The Mystery of the stuck alerts
Occasionally I run across an issue that requires immediate action be taken to resolve the problem...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 10/17/2008
Get all alerts within a certain time period
A co-worker of mine ran into an alert flood scenario and needed to resolve a large number of alerts....
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 09/02/2008
Adding Run AS accounts using powershell
A customer of mine ran across a situation where they had to add a significant number of runas...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 08/27/2008
Event 5206
I was doing a health check for a customer and ran across the following warning event which occurred...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 08/27/2008
New Role at Microsoft
This is my first post in 2008 and definitely won't be my last. In April I transitioned to a new role...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 08/27/2008
MOM 2005 MCF throws an exception when UpdateAlerts() is called
After calling UpdateAlerts() an exception is returned: "Value does not fall within the expected...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 11/08/2007
SNMPVarBinds and the Alert Description Field in OpsMgr 2007
I recently had the opportunity to learn a lot about SNMPVarBind values and populating those values...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 10/31/2007
New System Center Product Group Blog
The System Center Product Group has started a new blog that will contain some useful high level...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 10/31/2007
Populating an Alert Description with PropertyBag data
If you are running a script via a rule, and that script returns a propertybag, then it is possible...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 10/12/2007
New System Center Certifications
There will be a Live Meeting on October 24th going over the new certifications for SCCM and SCOM. I...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 10/12/2007
Running All Available Programs on an SMS 2003 Advanced Client
Recently a customer complained that you can't run more than one advertised program at a time on a...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 10/12/2007
In MOM 2005, TimeOfFirstEvent and TimeOfLastEvent are set to 12/30/1899
I recently had a customer ask me why the TimeOfFirstEvent and TimeOfLastEvent fields in an alert get...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 09/19/2007
The SMS MP for SCOM 2007 does not work properly if the SMS server is not installed to C:SMS
The SMS MP Guide actually tells you this:"To specify the location of the SMS installation folder the...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 09/19/2007
Some Applications Fail to Sequence with Error Code 53256 / Unsupported UTF format
I recently worked on an issue sequencing an application with the Softgrid 4.1 SP1 and 4.2 Sequencer....
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 09/18/2007
How the SMS 2003 Advanced Client Creates Delta Inventory
I have recently done some research on exactly how inventory is generated, including deltas, and have...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 09/18/2007
How to Delete an Assignment from an SMS 2003 Advertisement
I recently worked on an issue where a customer was trying to programmatically delete a mandatory...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 09/18/2007
The Mystery of the Lost Hardware Inventory
In large environments, with tens of thousands of SMS 2003 clients, inventory may get "lost" for...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 09/18/2007
Bit Fields and the SMS_Advertisement Class
I recently worked on an issue involving a customer attempting to create a mandatory Advert using a...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 07/17/2007
Who is this Russ Slaten guy anyway?
I was looking back over some of my older posts and realized that everything I've blogged about was...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 03/29/2007
Adding custom data to WMI, as a low rights user, and having SMS collect that data
Recently I was working on an issue which involved moving from a custom solution, which used noidmifs...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 03/23/2007
Finding Overlapping Boundaries in SMS (SMSBoundaries v1.42)
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where an SMS Advanced client ends up getting policy or...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 03/20/2007
Submitting software inventory records to an SMS 2003 MP using the MP API
There are several supported ways to add data to the SMS database but they typically come from an SMS...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 07/03/2006
Submitting hardware inventory records to an SMS 2003 MP using the MP API
There are several supported ways to add data to the SMS database but they typically come from an SMS...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 06/29/2006
Submitting discovery records to an SMS 2003 MP using the MP API
There are several supported ways to add data to the SMS database but they typically come from an SMS...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 06/28/2006
Creating a CCR through WMI
I was recently troubleshooting a problem with the Install Client wizard in the admin console which...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 06/14/2006
Adding a new DP to all existing packages
I was recently asked if I had a script to add a new DP to all existing packages in a hierarchy. I...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 06/08/2006
Introduction to the SMS 2003 Management Point (MP) API
The MP API was introduced in the second release of the SMS SDK (we are currently in the fourth...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 04/06/2006
SMS 2003 Logging
SMS 2003 has many different ways to enable additional logging in the product. You should only enable...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 03/14/2006
Getting a list of protected DPs in your hierarchy
I was recently asked if there was a way, via the SDK, to list out all your protected DPs and their...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 03/13/2006
Removing a retired DP from all your packages
When you remove an SMS 2003 Distribution Point (DP) from a site, and existing packages have been...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 03/01/2006
How to delete an SMS client throughout your hierarchy
Remember delmif.exe in SMS 1.2? It was a nice utility used to delete machines throughout your entire...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 02/14/2006
VBScript version of MP Spy (MPGetPolicy.exe)
MP Spy (MPGetPolicy.exe) is a tool included in the SMS 2003 Toolkit 2 that is used to view the...
Author: Russ Slaten Date: 02/07/2006