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Windows Phone Push Notifications for your OpsMgr Alerts - Part 2

This is part 2 in a two blog post series about configuring Windows Phone Push Notifications for...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 01/07/2013

Windows Phone Push Notifications for your OpsMgr Alerts - Part 1

Did you know you can easily create your own Windows Phone Push Notifications using the Notify My...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 01/05/2013

Protect Your PowerShell Scripts with Version Control

W00t! My Protect Your PowerShell Scripts with Version Control blog article I wrote for the Hey,...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 12/28/2012

Installing a new OpsMgr 2012 (SP1) environment the fast way

Some days ago I read a blog post from Bjorn Houben called SCOM2012 – Quick test lab setup...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 12/26/2012

The First-Ever Dutch PowerShell User Group

Last Friday we had our first ever Dutch PowerShell User Group meeting and I could finally meet Ed...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/26/2012

Update: Put OM2012 Computer Group Members in Maintenance Mode with PowerShell

I finally found out the issue why this script was not working for everybody. It was because of the...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/07/2012

Get-SCOMAlert Cmdlet, the Criteria Parameter and the Non-Equal Operator

Wow, that is a cryptic blogtitle Did I already lost you people with this blogpost title? I hope not,...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/02/2012

OpsMgr 2012: Update Rollup 3 ships, and my experience installing it

Because Kevin Holman has not published a blog article on the latest release of the Update Rollup 3...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 10/22/2012

System Center Operations Manager 2012 Toolbox

After posting some years ago a blog post with all the OpsMgr 2007 tools I thought it would be time...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 09/30/2012

First Dutch PowerShell User Group Meeting

We are very happy to announce the first DuPSUG meeting. This will be held at Master IT in Eindhoven...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 09/22/2012

OM2012 QuickTip: Overview of installed Patches for Agents

You all have installed Cumulative Update Rollup 2 (UR2) for OpsMgr 2012, right? If not just follow...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 08/06/2012

OpsMgr 2012: What should the SPN’s look like (visual representation)?

Today I needed to check the SPN’s for my OM2012 environment and (again) I used some other blogs to...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 07/31/2012

QuickTrick: Adding AdtAdmin tool path to environment path variable

Today I installed Audit Collection Services (ACS) in my demo environment and after installing the...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 07/11/2012

Creating a System Center 2012 Operations Manager Alert RSS feed

In OpsMgr 2007 we had the option to create a RSS Feed for Alerts using the Operations Web Console....

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/29/2012

Clarification on SQL Server Collation Requirements for System Center 2012

We have published a new blogpost on the System Center: Operations Manager Engineering Team Blog...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/29/2012

Let’s Build a Cloud… With PowerShell! – Part 1: Deployment and Configuration

Our Private Cloud team published a blog post about building a cloud with PowerShell! “Windows Server...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/24/2012

New KBArticle: Understanding Operations Manager Maintenance Mode

Yesterday we published a new KBArticle about Operations Manager Maintenance Mode. It explains...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/22/2012

CU6 for System Center Operations Manager R2 Released

We have released CU6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Cumulative Update 6 for...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/15/2012

PowerShell Magazine blogpost: Formatting changes for OM2012 in UR1

My blogpost on the formatting changes for System Center Operations Manager 2012 in Update Rollup 1...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 05/14/2012

Check if new Management Packs have been received using PowerShell

Today I deployed some new Management Pack in my OM2012 demo environment, and to check if the...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 04/17/2012

Monitoring non-domain members with OM 2012

While the rest of the System Center community is in Vegas for MMS2012 I’m helping customers with...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 04/17/2012

Released - Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager

Just a short blogpost to let you know we released the Technical Documentation Download for System...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 04/01/2012

Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (pre-release)

Today we released the Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (pre-release). Microsoft...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/13/2012

OM12 - Creating a Dashboard View with Widgets and store in specific Management Pack

Today I was playing around with creating some Dashboard Views with Widgets and wanted to store them...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/12/2012

OM12 - Viewing contents Management Pack Bundle files with MPViewer 1.9

Yesterday I blogged about some small improvements to Daniele Grandini blogpost about a great...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/07/2012

OpsMgr 2012 – how to dump management pack bundles (small “improvement”)

Last week Daniele Grandini posted a great PowerShell script to dump the contents of Management Pack...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/06/2012

Everything you want to know about the OM12 Cmdlets

Did you know there is a help topic about which cmdlets are new to Operations Manger 2012, which...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/26/2011

Inside Central Podcasts–Episode 12–OpsMgr 2012 Command Shell

Last week I had to some long car drives to one of our customers and had plenty of time to listen to...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/26/2011

Reformatting get-scomrmsemulator cmdlet output

Hi people I need your help. Today I was looking at the Get-SCOMRMSEmulator cmdlet in OM12 RC and...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/14/2011

Do OM12 Management Servers have different registry keys?

Now everybody has downloaded OM12 Release Candidate, it’s time to start exploring. Let’s start...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/13/2011

New System Center 2012 Virtual Labs available

Source: System Center Central Now that we have released System Center 2012 Release Candidate is time...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 11/11/2011

How to find out what’s new in OM12 for PowerShell

This week I started to play with Windows 8 and of course one of the first things I looked for was...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 09/21/2011

Lessons learned - The OpsMgr 2007 R2 Universal Connector

Last week I was asked to help a customer with the configuration of an OpsMgr 2007 R2 connector....

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 08/16/2011

OM12 Command Shell vs OpsMgr2007 Command Shell

Now that System Center Operations Manager 2012 (OM12) Beta available is, it’s time to compare the...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 07/30/2011

Extract Exchange 2010 Management Pack files from MSI file

Today I wanted to have a look at the Exchange 2010 Management Pack files, but I did not had access...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 07/05/2011

Who put the RMS in Maintenance Mode? (2nd update)

I was investigating an issue with OpsMgr Agents who where stuck in Maintenance Mode. A big help was...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 04/19/2011

Finding Multihomed OpsMgr agents with PowerShell

This week I got some questions about Multihoming agents. As you know, a multihomed architecture is...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 04/13/2011

AddToDistList Tool - Adding a computer to the Distribution list on a RunAs Account

Some weeks ago I saw a question about how to use PowerShell for the ApproveCredentialForDistribution...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/17/2011

What is the impact of the OpsMgr Web Console on the RMS?

This week I had a conversation with a customer who wanted to offer their admins OpsMgr Web Consoles...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 03/12/2011

Pulling OpsMgr Company Knowledge from Management Pack and send it to email

Some weeks ago I got a question from Marnix Wolf asking if it’s possible to retrieve Company...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 02/17/2011

Download VHD Test Drive – System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 with PowerShell and Bits

Just in case you were interested in test driving Operations Manager 2007 R2, we published a VHD...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 02/14/2011

Sneak preview of sealed MPs using PowerShell

Today I needed to check if a customer had installed the latest versions of available Management...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 02/01/2011

Checking Server Roles with PowerShell

Today I’m rebuilding some of my demo servers in my demo environment and before I can install the...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 01/27/2011

Last two blogposts

Hi people, I’m sorry but I had to remove my last two blogposts about OpsMgr vNext because there is...

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 01/27/2011

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. Have fun learning OpsMgr & PowerShell next year again!Tweet

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 12/23/2010

Documenting your OperationsManager Databases? Use PowerShell!

I’ve already blogged a couple of times about ways to document your Operations Manager Databases....

Author: Stefan Stranger Date: 12/15/2010

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