Operations Manager Cross-Group Blog

Tips and tricks from the Microsoft Operations Manager Cross-Group Team Members

What is my App Pool Actually Doing?

Much ink (both physical and virtual) has been spent on configuring application pools in IIS. I'm not...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 11/09/2018

Orphaned Service Broker Queues in the SCOM Database

We recently ran into an issue where our Operations Manager database was full. But the on-call...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 04/14/2018

Replacement Azure Management Certificate Monitoring

We replaced one of the monitors for Azure Management Certificates, and I had a few requests to share...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 01/24/2018

NetBIOS Domain Name Incorrect in SCOM 2016

I noticed this when we upgraded to SCOM 2016.  After we applied UR3 the issue still persisted.  The...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 08/03/2017

Doing "Math" on Performance Counters in SCOM

If you look at the dashboard of a car, most of the instruments have obvious good and bad values...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 10/22/2015

Extra Monitor Type for TCP and HTTP(S) Synthetic Transactions

NOTE: I authored this MP in the SCOM 2007 R2 Authoring Console. This MP should work in both SCOM...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 08/28/2015

SCOM does not properly groom all MT*_Log tables

UPDATE: This issue has been resolved in SCOM 2012 R2 UR7. I was asked to look at a very large...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 04/08/2015

Updating SQL Server Analysis Services Via PowerShell

If you use the GUI install both the SQL Database Engine and SQL Analysis Services in the same server...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 12/18/2014

Azure Storage Analytics Metrics Management Pack

This is a draft of a SCOM management pack I made for Azure Storage Analytics Metrics. It's not...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 08/15/2014

Read the Azure Storage Analytics Metrics Table with PowerShell

Another script I recently needed to read Azure Storage Analytics Metrics. Here is the table schema...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 08/08/2014

Query Azure Storage with PowerShell but without the SDK or Cmdlets

I had a need to query Azure Storage via PowerShell, but I was not guaranteed that the machines...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 08/08/2014

Discovery Does Not Work in ADFS 2012 R2 MP

UPDATE Version 7.1.10100.1 of the management pack, published on June 16, 2014 has addressed the...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 05/07/2014

Use PowerShell to Create and Update Performance Counters

SCOM has a wonderful ability to take data from custom data sources, such as scripts, and treat them...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 04/23/2014

PrincipalName and NetworkName

One of the most commonly used classes in SCOM is Microsoft.Windows.Computer from the...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 03/05/2014

Use The All Management Servers Resource Pool To Run Scheduled Tasks

A major improvement from SCOM 2007 to SCOM 2012 was the federation of the Root Management Server...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 11/15/2013

Health Service Restarts on Service Manager Servers With SCOM Agents

With the release of System Center Service Manager (SCSM) 2012 SP1 a SCOM agent was added to the SCSM...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 10/17/2013

Dealing with XML Events

With Windows Vista/2008 the "Crimson" event API's were added. The idea was to allow events to be...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 07/02/2013

Monitoring Object Properties

I really hate to reinvent the wheel. I have had the need to create monitors for values that are...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 06/14/2013

The new DNS Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager

The most recent release of the DNS management pack for SCOM is a total re-write of the management...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 03/27/2013

IIS Service Alerts From Servers Where IIS is not Installed

NOTE: I believe the IIS 6 Management Pack exhibits similar behaviors. In the interest of simplicity...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 03/26/2013

Selectively Setting Default Action Accounts in SCOM

Disclaimer: I have only tested this in SCOM 2012, but it should be possible to work in SCOM 2007 R2...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 02/22/2013

Monitoring Certificates In SCOM

In almost every SCOM environment I have been involved with the need to monitor certificates has come...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 01/30/2013

Repeated Event Monitors with a Missing Event Reset

One of the most common requests I get is to write a monitor that raises if a given event happens...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 01/21/2013

How to store SYSLOG in the SCOM Data Warehouse

If you have ever tried to create a Syslog collection rule in the SCOM Authoring Console, this is the...

Author: Michael Repperger Date: 01/07/2013