SCOMHelper PowerShell Module – A SCOM Admin’s Best Friend
(installation instructions at bottom)2020.12.30: v1.33 – Improved GraphViz package detection for New-SCOMClassGraph function.2020.11.19: v1.31 – Improved Update-SCOMComputerGroup2020.09.22: v1.28 – Added Get-SCOMRunningWorkflows2020.08.19: Added Update-SCOMComputerGroup2020.08.12: Added New-SCOMComputerGroup2020.05.13: Added Export-SCOMOverrides, Deploy-SCOMAgent Get-SCOMRunningWorkflows – Will return an object that represents detailed task results for agent task: ‘Microsoft.SystemCenter.GetAllRunningWorkflows’Update-SCOMComputerGroup – Will overwrite an existing instance group or computer group containing Windows …. Read More
Configuring SQL Logins for SCOM Accounts Made Easy
Credit where it’s due: tidbytez and K. Brian Kelley on mssqltips.com There are two scenarios that I’ll cover here: Clone an existing SQL login with comprehensive stored procedures. This is useful when changing/replacing existing SCOM accounts.Create new logins with appropriate permissions based on login type/role. This is useful for:- Moving/restoring a SCOM database to a new …. Read More
Tracing SCOM Workflows with PowerShell
There have been a number of documents written on tracing over the years but have made it this easy to trace SCOM agent workflows. Tracing is a way to spy on agent activity. This is very helpful, essential even, when troubleshooting, authoring, or testing workflows. This is not meant to be a deep dive into …. Read More
Implementing gMSA in SCOM 2019 UR1
gMSA Configuration, Operations Manager 2019 UR1 12/14/2020, Version 1.3 Final Prepared by:CJ RawsonSenior Customer Engineer Contributors:Scott MathemeierSenior Customer Engineer Editing and other minor contributions:Tyson PaulSenior Customer Engineer Revision and Signoff SheetChange Record DateAuthorVersionChange Reference06/06/2020CJ Rawson1Initial final for review/discussion06/10/2020CJ Rawson1.1Added Security Matrix to Appendix06/16/2020Scott Mathemeier1.2Updated verbiage, nomenclature, formatting12/14/2020Scott Mathemeier1.3Update service account verbiage and SQL Ops Mgr …. Read More
Keep Your Management Pack Files Organized
Easily organize and keep track of your management pack file versions.
vNext Office 365 Supplemental Management Pack
Hey Y’all, I wanted to take a minute today to provide an update regarding future versions of the Office 365 Supplemental Management Pack. Over the last 3 years Taylour Blackwell and myself have been working with a variety of customers implementing v2 of the MP. During this time we’ve collected and compiled an enormous amount …. Read More
Easily Configure SCOM Cross-Platform Management Server Certificates
One of the more annoying tasks when configuring monitoring for nix/xplat agents is exporting management server certificates, then importing those certificates on all other members of the designated cross-platform resource pool. When you deploy a nix agent, the agent will automatically trust only the management server which performed the certificate signing procedure during the agent …. Read More
SCOM 2019 Web Console – 0x800700b7 Internal Server Error 500.19
The ‘name’ entry is defined in two places; eliminate one.