The Manageability Guys

The PFE UK Manageability team

Don’t forget the SSRS switches!!

A short post but I hope it is useful. SCOM has some great inbuilt reports that you can get to from...

Author: Bob Bird Date: 02/19/2018

Setting System Center Orchestrator Runbook Operator Privileges

Hi, Common question I keep getting asked by my customers is: How do I set Orchestrator Operator...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 11/23/2016

Update your VMM Managed Hyper-V Host Agents with PowerShell

Hey there, the kids are finally in bed and the dog is snoring on the sofa, which means I've got some...

Author: SimmoLeigh Date: 06/14/2016

Troubleshooting PXE boot issues in Configuration Manager 2012

A very short one from me today, we recently published an interactive tutorial in troubleshooting...

Author: Rob York Date: 04/27/2016

What's New With ConfigMgr's Client Notification Feature

With the release of Configuration Manager this month - ConfigMgr 1602, was the introduction of some...

Author: rickysimpson Date: 03/29/2016

Enabling the Microsoft Monitoring Agent in Windows JSON Templates

Remember the good old days when operating systems came on floppy disks and a cheese fondue was the...

Author: G Davies Date: 11/19/2015

Monitoring Database Replication Efficiency in Configuration Manager 2012

In this blog post I want to look at DRS replication within System Center Configuration Manager and...

Author: Rob York Date: 11/12/2015

Making your Product Connector Highly Available in OpsMgr 2012

During testing with a customer it was noted that the 3rd party product connector they were using to...

Author: alex young ms Date: 09/21/2015

Operations Manager 2012 R2 “Perfect Failover Service”.

Over my time using SCOM 2012 I have found that there is still some confusion about how the core of a...

Author: Bob Bird Date: 09/18/2015

SCOM Alerts from Windows Events

Having spent some time on the Service Model, I’ll start to look at some monitoring to help us...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 09/15/2015

Groups based upon OU Membership

The Computer Group that I created as part of the initial authoring series grouped together computer...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 09/04/2015

Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 7 - Create State Views

Right Click Dashboards and choose Add, New Item Add Empty Management Pack Fragment and choose a name...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/25/2015

Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 8 - Create a Distributed Application (class, relationship, discovery and diagram view)

We can also build a Distributed Application for our Application. This fragment will: Create the...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/25/2015

Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 6 - Create a Health Service Watcher Group (class and discovery)

Lets create our Health Service Watcher group - this will be a group of Health Service Watcher...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/25/2015

Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 5 - Create a Computer Group (class and discovery)

Lets create our computer group - this will be a group of computer objects that are running our...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/25/2015

Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 4 - Create an Instance Group (class and discovery)

Three key groups I will create are: Group of “instances” of the Application. This is a...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/25/2015

Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 3 - Create a class based on Windows Local Application along with a registry discovery

For detailed training, please see the Brian Wren MVA series. There are a number of relevant chapters...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/24/2015

Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 2 - Create Key to seal Management Packs

There is a great article on sealed and unsealed management packs here so I'm not going to repeat...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/24/2015

Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Part 1 - Download pre-requisites

Lets start off by making sure we have Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Authoring extensions...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/24/2015

Visual Studio Management Pack Authoring Series - Overview

As promised, here is a run through of authoring Management Packs using Visual Studio and the...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/24/2015

Dynamic SQL Computer Group with Health Service Watcher Objects

The SQL 2014 Management Packs have fundamentally changed the way that SQL Server classes are scoped....

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/14/2015

Distributed Applications in a Snippet

A common request from customers is to be able to monitor an application and to display information...

Author: Graham Davies Date: 08/14/2015

Management Pack: Azure Powershell Monitoring leveraging Azure AD Authentication

Just wanted to let you know about a sample System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Management Pack...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 08/05/2015

State Tiles Widget + PowerShell Widget

Dashboard options for Windows Operating System, Logical Disks and SQL DB Engine I closely follow the...

Author: G Davies Date: 08/04/2015

Powershell: Retrieve Group Membership for a given Computer in Operations Manager (2012/ 2012 R2)

In System Center Operations Manager (2012/ 2012 R2) you may find it difficult to retrieve all the...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 07/28/2015

Operations Manager 2012 - Create Override Packs via PowerShell

An example PowerShell script to automate the creation of override packs within Operations Manager...

Author: Richard Hawes Date: 07/17/2015

Microsoft Azure Cost Estimator Tool

Hi! For those of you who are used to working with Microsoft Azure, the Azure Pricing calculator...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 04/02/2015

Secondary Sites and SQL Server Express 2012

Lately, I’ve been helping my customer plan for a ConfigMgr 2012 upgrade from SP1 to R2. After...

Author: rickysimpson Date: 03/11/2015

Service Manager - CMDB Computer Maker

An example PowerShell script to automate the creation of items within the Service Manager CMDB can...

Author: Richard Hawes Date: 02/17/2015

How To Auto Uninstall User Device Affinity Applications in Configuration Manager 2012

Before Christmas, a colleague came to me with a customer scenario where they were leveraging User...

Author: Rob York Date: 01/05/2015

Validating Hyper-V 2012 R2 and Failover Clustering 2012 R2 hotfixes and updates with PowerShell

Hey there, If you were aware of my most excellent friend Cristian Edwards’ Hyper-V and...

Author: SimmoLeigh Date: 05/31/2014

Possible Way of: Providing Operators access to the Monitor’s properties in the SCOM Console

You may be one of those asking: Why an Operator can't see the monitor properties so that they...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 05/15/2014

CM TechDay Additional Content

Hi All, This post is meant as a reference to additional content for those that attended our TechDay...

Author: SaudM Date: 02/25/2014

Service Manager 2012 - Creating Workflow Notifications in Change Requests

The Change Request process in Service Manager can involve a lot of repetitive data entry. This is...

Author: Richard Hawes Date: 02/24/2014

Managing Updates and Revisions in your System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager environment

Managing Updates and Revisions in your Virtual Machine Manager Environment I’ve recently spent...

Author: SimmoLeigh Date: 02/16/2014

#8 - Operations Manager Agent deployment and basic monitoring testing over the Windows Azure P2S VPN connection

This post is (last) Part #8 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 12/18/2013

#7 - Configure Name resolution over P2S VPN Connection

This post is Part #7 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 12/18/2013

#6 - Configure and connect the P2S VPN Client to the Windows Azure P2S VPN.

This post is Part #6 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 12/10/2013

#5 - Create and Export the P2S VPN Client Certificate

This post is Part #5 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 12/10/2013

SYSTEM CENTER 2012 R2 Operations Manager - Anti-Virus Exclusions

The Anti-Virus exclusions should be part of common day to day administrative tasks of Anti-Virus...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 11/26/2013

#4 - Create Virtual Machine in the P2S VPN Network Availability Group

This post is Part #4 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 11/18/2013

#3 - Create P2S VPN Gateway

This post is Part #3 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 11/18/2013

#2 - Create, Export and Upload P2S VPN Root Certificate

This post is Part #2 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 11/08/2013

#1 - Create and Configure: Windows Azure Virtual Network, Affinity Group and Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN

This post is Part #1 of the: Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 11/06/2013

Windows Azure Monitoring over P2S VPN using System Center 2012 Operations Manager

Hi All, This Blog series aims to provide you with an early overview of the required steps to: Setup...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 11/05/2013

System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Daily Report Management Pack

Attached to this blog is an example Management Pack based on my "How to create daily reports with...

Author: Richard Hawes Date: 10/21/2013

Visual Studio Authoring Extensions for Visual Studio 2012/2013 available now!

For those following our Blog and working with System Center Operations Manager 2012 Operations...

Author: S.Carrilho Date: 10/20/2013

PFE UK is Hiring!!

Premier Field Engineering UK is hiring and we currently have vacancies for System Center...

Author: Rob York Date: 10/08/2013

Operations Manager 2012 - Can't select performance counters using objects by performance widget in my workspace?

I have seen the following issue recently in OM 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 2 in several different...

Author: Richard Hawes Date: 10/02/2013

ConfigMgr 2012: Tracking Application Model installations on clients

I frequently get customers asking me how to track and troubleshoot Application model based installs...

Author: adampazik Date: 10/01/2013

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