SQL Management Pack for SCOM – v7.12.1619.0
The publicly available links for SCOM management packs don’t always get updated correctly. This has been an issue for the last few releases of the SQL Server MP. As of today, this is the latest release (official download page): Microsoft System Center Management Pack (Release To Manufacturing) for SQL ServerVersion: 7.12.1619.0 NGL, this download offering …. Read More
PortGenie – Bulk Port Monitoring for Devices with SCOM
I originally wrote this in 2015 for the Microsoft Store team to monitor cash registers and printers back when Microsoft had retail stores throughout the country. Some years later I saw that some other dude (Jasper) wrote a blog article explaining almost the same monitoring concept so I never bothered to publish this MP. However, …. Read More
Visual Studio – Target Framework Not Supported
If you’ve ever authored SCOM management packs with Visual Studio Authoring Extensions then you’ve likely run into this issue. There’s no option in the prompt that that will fix this. To my knowledge, the product group hasn’t fixed this yet. There are two solutions that I know of: Option 1. Modify .mpproj The first solution …. Read More
Microsoft.SQLServer.Replication.Windows.Discovery SQL Queries (v7.0.28.0)
Now that the SQL management packs rely heavily on DLLs it’s not easy to determine what the workflows are doing or how they do it. These are the queries used for many of the workflows within this management pack.