How do I change the passwords for accounts used in the M365 SMP?
As with most IT Organizations the requirement to change service account passwords has turned out to be a fairly common task. We recently received some questions about changing the passwords in the M365 SMP so I figured that we would cover this in a post and provide instructions on how to change the passwords for …. Read More
SCOM – Trace Workflow Agent Task
Launch a task, see what the agent is doing. It’s that easy. This post is going to be short and sweet, right to the point with brief instructions on how to get agent trace data in front of your eyeballs as fast as possible. There are basically two types of SCOM traces:1) General – Capture …. Read More
M365 Supplemental Management Pack v1
M365 monitoring with SCOM made easy! The M365 Supplemental Management Pack includes synthetic transactions that provide an increased level of visibility into the health of the Microsoft 365 environment including Teams, Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online and Licensing!
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
Control SCOM Maintenance Mode from the Agent with SCOMAgentHelper Management Pack
This management pack will provide every agent-managed computer with a set of PowerShell commands to control and verify maintenance mode for the Windows Computer object.
SCOM On Demand Discovery Example
A little known feature within SCOM is the ability to trigger a discovery on demand. This can be a bit tricky so here’s a quick explanation of how you can trigger On Demand discovery.The agent task is located in the “Agents By Version” state view as shown below. The Trigger On Demand Discovery task includes …. Read More
Windows Clusters – Discover Multiple Virtual Servers
I ran into a situation last month where my customer noticed that there were numerous Windows Failover Cluster role server names (aka ‘network name’ aka ‘virtual name’) that were not getting discovered by SCOM.
SCOMHelper PowerShell Module – A SCOM Admin’s Best Friend
(installation instructions at bottom)2021.07.08: v1.36- Fixed small issue in Start-SCOMOverrideTool.2021.05.13: v1.35 – Improved New-SCOMClassGraphIndex. Better handling of foreign graphs.2021.01.06: v1.34 – Improved error handling in RemoveObsoleteMPRefTask.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 There are a number of …. Read More
How to Analyze a SCOM Property Bag
From time to time I find myself writing PowerShell scripts for custom workflows: rules, monitors, tasks, etc. Often times the project at hand requires a property bag full of juicy data to be used in the workflow. There are a handful of other blogs that describe what a property bag is but here I’ll show …. Read More