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January 13, 2021January 14, 2021 Tyson Paul2 commentsSCOM 2012 SCOM 2016 SCOM 2019SCOM Accounts SCOM Configuration SCOM Deployment SCOM Passwords SCOM Service Accounts SQL Accounts

How to Change/Replace SCOM Accounts

Easily change all of your SCOM accounts.

January 13, 2021January 19, 2021 Brian Zoucha0 commentsAuthoring Management Packs SCOM 2016 SCOM 2019M365 monitoring office 365 scom

M365 Supplemental Management Pack v1

M365 monitoring with SCOM made easy!

January 12, 2021January 14, 2021 Tyson Paul1 commentsSCOM 2016

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

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 Tyson Paul1 commentsSCOM 2016authoring debugging powershell wfanalyzer workflow analyzer

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

October 14, 2020October 29, 2020 Tyson Paul0 commentsAuthoring Management Packs Powershell SCOM 2016export management pack powershell scomhelper sealed unsealed management pack

Keep Your Management Pack Files Organized

Easily organize and keep track of your management pack file versions.

October 2, 2020October 2, 2020 Brian Zoucha2 commentsManagement Packs SCOM 2016office 365 powershell scom

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

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Tyson Paul0 commentsSCOM 2016powershell scom scomhelper workflows

SCOM Get-SCOMRunningWorkflows Tool

Easily reveal details about workflows running on your agent.

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Tyson Paul1 commentsPowershell SCOM 2012 SCOM 2016 SCOM 2019Certificates cross platform import linux scxcertconfig.exe unix xplat

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

July 30, 2020November 18, 2020 Tyson Paul10 commentsManagement Packs Powershell SCOM 2012 SCOM 2016 SCOM 2019automation maintenance mode powershell

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.

July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Tyson Paul1 commentsSCOM 2016

SCOM Export-SCOMOverrides Report

Export-SCOMOverrides Available here: SCOMHelper PowerShell Module Export all overrides in mgmt group. Example Reports Here More examples:

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